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Where Are the Real Bottlenecks?Evidence from 20,000 Firms in 60 Countries aboutthe Shadow Costs of Constraints to Firm Performance

Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark; Seabright, Paul - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We use data from over 20,000 firms in 60 countries to identify constraints on the growth offirms. We interpret managers´ answers to survey questions on the extent to which variousaspects of their external environment inhibit the performance of their firm as measuring theshadow cost of...

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Norms, Culture and Local Infrastructure : Evidence from a Decentralised Economy

Pal, Sarmistha - 2010

Culture as reflected in social and religious norms may be pivotal to social organization in a decentralised economy where local authorities are responsible for the provision of local public goods. We distinguish between individualist and collectivist cultures to argue that collectivist culture...

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Investment Climate and Employment Growth : The Impact of Access to Finance, Corruption and Regulations Across Firms

Aterido, Reyes; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Pages, Carmen - 2021

, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent, infrastructure bottlenecks in explaining patterns of job creation at … face greater interruptions in infrastructure services. Larger firms spend significantly more time dealing with officials … growth of all firms, particularly micro and small firms. On the other hand, corruption and poor access to infrastructure …

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Infrastructure Grants and the Performance of Microenterprises

Chaurey, Ritam - 2018

We evaluate the impact of a place-based infrastructure development scheme directed towards India's most "backward …

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Outsourcing, Public Input Provision and Policy Cooperation

Aronsson, Thomas - 2010

This paper concerns public input provision as an instrument for redistribution under international outsourcing by using a model-economy comprising two countries, North and South, where firms in the North may outsource part of their low-skilled labor intensive production to the South. We consider...

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Why are Household Incomes More Unequally Distributed in China than in Russia?

Gustafsson, Björn - 2010

Harmonised microdata show a Gini coefficient for per capita total income of 45.3 percent in China 2002 and 33.6 percent in Russia 2003. A much larger urban to rural income gap in combination with a much smaller proportion of people living in urban areas in China are important reasons for this...

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The Effect of Early Childhood Developmental Program Attendance on Future School Enrollment and Grade Progression in Rural North India

Hazarika, Gautam - 2010

This paper examines the effect of prior participation in early childhood developmental programs, considered endogenous, upon 7-19 years olds' school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India. It hopes both to extend to less developed countries recent influential research on the...

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Household Decision Making in Rural China : Using Experiments to Estimate the Influences of Spouses

Carlsson, Fredrik - 2010

Many economic decisions are made jointly within households. This raises the question about spouses' relative influence on joint decisions and the determinants of relative influence. Using a controlled experiment (on inter-temporal choice), we let each spouse first make individual decisions and...

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Impacts of Rural Electrification in Rwanda

Bensch, Gunther - 2011

Rural electrification is believed to contribute to the achievement of the MDG. In this paper, we investigate electrification impacts on different indicators. We use household data that we collected in Rwanda in villages with and without electricity access. We account for self-selection and...

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Religious Minorities and Provision of Public Goods : Evidence from Rural West Bengal

Das, Pranab Kumar - 2011

concentrations face poorer access to infrastructure, health and transport facilities …

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