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van der Hoeven, Rolph - 2012

high initial income inequality. The neglect of concern for employment and inequality in the formulation of the Millennium … Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 is noted; the addition of a goal for full employment in a reformulation of the MDGs in 2005 did … not lead to a change in focus in official development assistance (ODA). If the growing concern for employment and …

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Employment, unemployment, and underemployment in Africa

Golub, Stephen; Hayat, Faraz - 2014

This paper documents and analyses the predominance of informal employment in Africa and shows that lack of demand for … potential to become competitive in light manufacturing, but the most promising avenue for export-led growth of employment in … investment and technology transfer in labour-intensive tradable industries, and thus raising labour demand and employment. …

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Occupational choice of skilled workers in the presence of a large development sector: Evidence from Sierra Leone

Harris, Jamelia - 2019

perceptions in the employment decision-making process. Crucial to the analysis is the introduction of the aid … largest share of skilled jobseekers opt for early-career employment working for a donor organisation, INGO, or NGO in the … matching' based on measured preferences may be inhibited in contexts where employment possibilities are limited. …

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Sectoral shifts and labour market outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa

Jobe, Amie M.; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2023

transformation in Africa, focusing on sectoral output shares, sectoral employment shares, and the relative labour productivity of … product growth and population density reduce unemployment and non-employment. …

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Drivers of mobility

Piraino, Patrizio - 2020

Empirical studies in developing countries tend to find higher levels of socioeconomic persistence across generations compared with those of high-income economies. However, there have been relatively few advances in the identification of the drivers of such higher levels of intergenerational...

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Microcredit and poverty alleviation: Can microcredit close the deal?

Quibria, M. G. - 2012

This paper explores the relationship between microcredit and poverty reduction. To investigate this question, we posit a bare-bone, household model that outlines the economic environment within which various types of family microenterprises operate. It highlights a number of issues that impinge...

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Jobs and welfare in Mozambique

Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - 2013

Mozambique has achieved remarkable macroeconomic success over recent decades, boasting one of the world's highest rates of GDP growth. However, absolute poverty remains persistent, spilling over into social unrest. To better understand the link between aggregate growth and household welfare,...

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Efficiency frontier and matching process on the labour market: Evidence from Tunisia

Bou Abid, Anis; Drine, Imed - 2010

This paper studies the determinants of the inefficient functioning of the Tunisian labour market. The study takes advantage of recent developments in the stochastic frontier techniques and estimates the matching function for Tunisia using disaggregated data. We include control variables as...

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Schooling and Labour Market Impacts of Bolivia's Bono Juancito Pinto

Canelas, Carla - 2018

In 2006, the Bolivian government introduced a large-scale cash transfer programme, Bono Juancito Pinto (BJP). Exploiting the exogenous variation of the programme expansion, this paper examines the impact of BJP on schooling and child labour. The analysis suggests that the transfer increases the...

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Country role models: Synthesis of Ireland, Japan and Switzerland

Findlay, Ronald - 2010

Switzerland along the following themes: role of the state, openness, education and human capital, and macroeconomic stability. It …

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