, contribute to economic transformation, and reduce poverty. This entails both the creation of high-quality jobs and productivity … to productivity, formal employment, and formal wage growth in Zambia. Leveraging firm and worker administrative tax data … from Zambia, the paper decomposes labor productivity and wage growth among formal firms and workers in Zambia into within …

This paper studies the effects of global and domestic inflation shocks on core price inflation in 105 countries between … empirical results indicate that most of the variation in inflation among low-income countries over the past decades is accounted … for by external shocks. More than half of the variation in core inflation rates among low-income countries is due to …