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Social norms as a barrier to women's employment in developing countries
Jayachandran, Seema - 2019
This paper discusses cultural barriers to women's participation and success in the labor market in developing countries. I begin by describing how gender norms influence the relationship between economic development and female employment, as well as how gender norms differ substantially across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012122672
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Fiscal policy, state building and economic development
Addison, Tony; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Pirttilä, Jukka - 2018
This paper presents a synopsis of the contextual conditions, factors and challenges under which the recent evolution of tax systems has taken place over the past three decades. The paper gives especial emphasis to the role of natural endowments, political economy, social structure and history,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011777699
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Understanding the boom : country study : Tanzania
Henstridge, Mark - 2018
paper sets out the scale of the gas, and the array of risks which currently make investment in gas production, and any … associated boom, unlikely. As well as geological, engineering, and market risks, the risks to investment from public policy have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955475
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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/10011955486
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Industrialization in developing countries : is it related to poverty reduction?
Erumban, Abdul Azeez; Vries, Gaaitzen J. de - 2021
/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database to measure the contribution to growth of productivity improvements within sectors and … change and productivity growth in manufacturing. An attribution exercise suggests that structural change and agricultural … productivity growth account for a substantial share of poverty reduction in developing Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799097
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Inferring the economic standard of living and health from cohort height : evidence from modern populations in developing countries
Akachi, Yoko; Canning, David - 2015
Average adult height is a physical measure of the biological standard of living of a population. While the biological and economic standards of living of a population are very different concepts, they are linked and may empirically move together. If this is so, then cohort heights can also be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011342277
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Global poverty, aid, and middle-income countries : are the country classifications moribund or is global poverty in the process of 'nationalizing'?
Sumner, Andrew - 2013
The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary threshold in per capita income but it does matter...
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From fiscal stabilization to economic diversification : a developmental approach to managing resource revenues
Chang, Ha-joon; Lebdioui, Amir - 2020
commodity-dependent developing countries. This approach, which consists in the gradual scaleup of investments in productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265519
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Industries without smokestacks : telecommunication and ICT-based services trade
Frischtak, Cláudio R. - 2017
competitive environment to attract infrastructure investment (in terms of fibre-optic rings and cable links, among others), and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588874
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Is there a fiscal resource curse? : resource rents, fiscal capacity, and political institutions in developing economies
Masi, Tania; Savoia, Antonio; Sen, Kunal - 2020
States' fiscal capacity plays a pivotal role in developing economies, but it is less clear what its determinants are or what explains cross-country differences. We focus on the impact of natural resources. Standard arguments suggest that natural resources rents may reduce incentives to invest in...
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