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Mainstreaming Citizen Feedback on Service Delivery using ICTs : Findings and Lessons from ICT-based Feedback Surveys on Water Supply and Sanitation Services in Indian Cities
Bhatnagar, Vandana - 2017
was introduced by the Government of India's Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) to strengthen the focus on service … integral component of India's urban reform formulations, the availability and quality of this data have tended to remain poor …. In recent years, various social accountability tools and participation processes have also been introduced in India to …
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Nowcasting economic activity in times of COVID-19 : an approximation from the Google Community Mobility Report
Sampi, James; Jooste, Charl - 2020
This paper proposes a leading indicator, the "Google Mobility Index," for nowcasting monthly industrial production growth rates in selected economies in Latin America and the Caribbean. The index is constructed using the Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Report database via a Kalman filter. The...
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Sources of manufacturing productivity growth in Africa
Jones, Patricia; Lartey, Emmanuel; Mengistae, Taye; … - 2019
This paper investigates the sources of growth in manufacturing productivity in Cote D'Ivoire, Ethiopia and Tanzania in comparison with the case of Bangladesh. Based on the analysis of establishment census data since the mid-1990s, it finds that reallocation of market share between firms...
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Productivity Performance in Indonesia's Manufacturing Sector
Javorcik, Beata - 2012
Relying on firm-level data from Statistik Industri this note analyzes the evolution of productivity dynamics of Indonesian firms over the past 20 years (1990-2009). Economy-wide and sectoral productivity changes are decomposed into their two main components: changes due to the evolution of...
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Diagonal cumulation and sourcing decisions
Bombarda, Pamela; Gamberoni, Elisa - 2019
Products must fulfill predetermined rules of origin to be exported under the preferential access granted by a free trade area member. In turn, rules of cumulation establish which countries' inputs qualify when computing the extent of origin of a product. Recent literature shows that restrictive...
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Trade effects of the New Silk Road : a gravity analysis
Baniya, Suprabha; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - 2019
This paper takes a first look at the trade effects of China's Belt and Road Initiative, also referred to as the New Silk Road, on the 71 countries potentially involved. The initiative consists of several infrastructure investment projects to improve the land and maritime transportation in the...
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icio : economic analysis with inter-country input-output tables in Stata : World Development Report 2020 background paper
Belotti, Federico; Borin, Alessandro; Mancini, Michele - 2020
Several new statistical tools and analytical frameworks have been developed recently to measure countries' and sectors' involvement in global value chains. Such wealth of methodologies reflects that different empirical questions call for distinct accounting methods, along with different levels...
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The Upstream Tariff Simulator (UTAS) : a tool to assess the impact of tariff reform on input costs and effective protection across sectors
Eberhard-Ruiz, Andreas; Varela, Gonzalo; Casal, Lucia; … - 2020
Increased international production fragmentation implies that firms at home rely on imported intermediates for production. In this context, tariff policy design needs to consider the impact downstream of changes in tariffs upstream. Policy makers embarking on tariff reforms need to answer...
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Input substitutability and cross-country variation in sectoral linkages
Sinha, Rishabh - 2019
Using panel data on input-output intensities and expenditure prices from 28 countries, this paper finds the elasticity of substitution across sectoral inputs to be less than one in each of the three broad sectors of the economy. Intermediates are most complementary in the production of services...
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The World is not Yet Flat : Transport Costs Matter!
Behrens, Kristian - 2016
The paper provides evidence of the effects of changes in transport costs on the geographic concentration of industries. The analysis uses micro-level commodity flow data and micro-geographic plant-level data to construct industry-specific ad valorem trucking rates and continuous measures of...
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