outcomes, on the other hand, refer to the patterns of growth, inflation, employment, investment, balance of payments, and the … acceleration of output growth and employment creation, and contributed to reducing poverty rates. -- Latin American economies … ; macroeconomic policies ; economic growth ; employment ; poverty rates ; inequality …

This study seeks to determine the effect on the gender employment gap and women's employment of the extension of … extensions of maternity leave and the gender employment gap in Viet Nam. The findings show that, on average, the new law did not … exacerbate the gender employment gap, and there was a narrowing of the gap in the formal jobs sector compared to the waged jobs …

Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). Using a life cycle model, we argue that a long wage payment lag in this flagship … employment options. Empirical evidence based on primary data lends support to our key theoretical prediction that wage payment …

employment losses and gains during the peak COVID-19 years compared with pre-pandemic levels. As part of its work on the impact … of the pandemic on informal workers, the Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) network … separate analysis of South African data on employment losses and gains during COVID-19 (see Rogan and Skinner 2022). This paper …

This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on formal sector employment in Uganda. Utilizing employee …-level administrative tax data from the Uganda Revenue Authority, we describe the dynamics of employment as the pandemic evolved, seeking to …

' production and welfare in Tanzania as well as the factors that influence agricultural production in the country. The analysis is … that the input subsidy programme resulted in an initial increase in maize and rice production but not in the long run and … only in a few regions. In addition, there was a decrease in total production in the southern region and the programme had …

This paper studies how household-level receipts of cash transfers affect political attitudes in Pakistan. The paper …

markets. Investigating outcomes beyond employment and earnings, we do not find an impact on entrepreneurship or university …

-in-differences design, we find that the three-week lockdown had a large and significant immediate negative impact on employment in the … treated districts, particularly among workers in informal self-employment. While the gap in employment between the treated and …