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The paper looks at the evolution of industry in Uganda examining drivers and constraints since the pre-colonial period …
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The transfer from an import-substitution to an export-orientation strategy has been in effect in Vietnam since the reform process, Doi Moi, necessitating the reformulation of macroeconomic, trading and sectoral policies. As a result, the industry sector has experienced gradual growth as the...
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wider range of instruments. In particular, it argues that 'learning' is central to development, there are intrinsic market … failures associated with learning, and that carefully crafted industrial policies can promote learning and development. …
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introduce structured experiential learning (which we add to M&E to get MeE) which allows implementing agencies to actively and …
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School-feeding is an important intervention to attract children to school and augment their learning. The benefits of …, different interventions that aim to foster learning could be meaningfully compared. …
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versus learning by exporting. According to the selection into exporting hypothesis, more productive firms self-select into … exporting due to high entry costs. The learning by exporting hypothesis, on the other hand, emphasizes that firms learn after … entering into the export market. We find evidence in support of both self-selection and learning by exporting. …
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This paper examines the nature and evolution of horizontal and vertical human-capital inequality in South Africa since …
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This paper provides an account of a South African tax-benefit microsimulation model - SAMOD - which has been developed for use by government over the past ten years. The two datasets that underpin the current version of SAMOD are introduced, and the model's tax and benefit policies are described...
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This paper provides an account of a Nambian tax-benefit microsimulation model - NAMOD - which has been developed for use by government. Following a section on the importance of social security in Namibia and recent related studies, the paper outlines the tax-benefit policies that are included...
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The South African services sector is large and growing. This coupled with declining employment shares in manufacturing and mining (i.e. deindustrialization) suggests that South Africa is a de facto service-orientated economy. Employment patterns in services reveal a segmentation that is...
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