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Market constraints, misallocation, and productivity in Viet Nam agriculture
Brandt, Loren; Ayerst, Stephen; Restuccia, Diego - 2018
misallocation in agriculture during the period between 2006 and 2016. Despite rapid growth in agricultural productivity and a …We examine important changes in agriculture in Viet Nam in the context of ongoing structural changes in the economy. We … reallocation of factor inputs to more productive farmers, we find that misallocation across farmers remains high and increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943919
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Formalization and productivity: Firm-level evidence from Viet Nam
Lay, Jann; Tafese, Tevin - 2020
-formal transitions. Our results show that productivity is considerably lower and misallocation more prevalent in the informal than in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424151
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Aid to Africa: The changing context
Addison, Tony; Singhal, Saurabh; Tarp, Finn - 2013
To continue its economic growth and create new and better livelihoods, Africa must transform the productive side of its economy. Ongoing globalization - in trade, finance, and technology - opens up new possibilities for structural transformation, but also new risks as Africa's integration with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343247
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Thirty years in Africa's development: From structural adjustment to structural transformation?
Addison, Tony - 2015
Africa has come a long way since the economic turmoil of the 1980s, the decade of "structural adjustment". Growth has been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack of diversification in Africa's economies-in contrast to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440672
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Resilience to crisis through social protection: Can we build the case?
Roca, Thomas; Ferrer, Hélène - 2016
This paper investigates the linkage between social protection and economic resilience. Does social protection have an impact on income? What role do social protection policies play in strengthening a society's capacity to overcome economic hardships? The recent crisis has brought these questions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653909
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Construction productivity and global inequality
Paul, Saumik; Sen, Kunal - 2023
Two well established stylized facts of economic development are a strong correlation between investment and income, and large differences in investment rates across countries. Construction is the largest component of investment. This paper examines the implications of heterogeneity in...
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Transforming rural economies through tertiary education: Evidence from India
Castelló-Climent, Amparo; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop - 2023
contribution to agriculture is also suggested by satellite-based spatial net primary productivity measures. We inform the larger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477607
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Aid, growth and private capital flows to Ghana
Osei, Robert Darko - 2012
an efficient and creative way so as to help improve productivity and production in agriculture and manufacturing. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319799
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Understanding the boom: Country study - Tanzania
Henstridge, Mark - 2018
There are large volumes of gas offshore Tanzania, which has raised hopes of a boom. But those hopes look set to be disappointed. A boom would depend on there being a sizeable flow of revenue to government from producing and exporting gas. This paper sets out the scale of the gas, and the array...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146474
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Understanding the boom: A framing paper
Henstridge, Mark - 2018
A significant natural resource discovery creates excited popular expectations of imminent wealth. But the size of a boom is usually overestimated and the delay in receiving revenues is underestimated. This paper takes stock of the sequencing, timing, and scale of the development of a natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146475