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Market size, sunk costs of entry, and transport costs : an empirical evaluation of the impact of demand-side factors versus supply-side factors on manufacturing productivity

Jones, Patricia; Lartey, Emmanuel; Mengistae, Taye; … - 2019

This paper uses plant-level, panel data from the Ethiopian manufacturing census to estimate the effects of demand-side and supply-side factors on industrywide aggregate productivity. The paper focuses on the effects of three factors: (1) local market size, (2) the value of transportation costs...

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Innovation patterns and their effects on firm-level productivity in South Asia

Cirera, Xavier; Cusolito, Ana P. - 2019

development investments in equipment, and training) highly concentrated in a few firms, and mature, exporter, and foreign …

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Cities of workers, children, or seniors? : age structure and economic growth in a global cross-section of cities

Jedwab, Remi; Pereira, Daniel; Roberts, Mark - 2019

A large literature documents the positive influence of a city's skill structure on its rate of economic growth. By contrast, the effect of a city's age structure on its economic growth has been a hitherto largely neglected area of research. This paper hypothesizes that cities with more...

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Do weak institutions prolong crises? : on the identification, characteristics, and duration of declines during economic slumps

Bluhm, Richard; Crombrugghe, Denis de; Szirmai, Adam - 2020

This paper studies periods of prolonged contractions in output per capita in a sample of 145 countries from 1950 to 2014. Economic slumps are defined as abrupt interruptions of a period of growth by several regime switches. Slumps start with a sharp contraction along with a trend break, which is...

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Environment and development : penalized non-parametric inference of global trends in deforestation, pollution and carbon

Andrée, Bo Pieter Johannes; Spencer, Phoebe; Chamorro, … - 2019

This paper revisits the issue of environment and development raised in the 1992 World Development Report, with new … environmental outcomes across GDP. The analysis finds that average development is associated with an inverted 'U'-shape in … used to extrapolate environmental output to 2030. The daunting implications of continued development are a reminder that …

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Does media stimulate reform efforts?

Ramalho, Rita; Saltane, Valentina - 2019

This paper investigates to what extent media impacts political decisions. A viable practical approach to test the relationship between mass media and political actions is through the use of the World Bank's Doing Business data, specifically, by assessing local media coverage of Doing Business...

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Twenty years of wage inequality in Latin America

Messina, Julián; Silva, Joana - 2019

This paper documents an inverse U-shape in the evolution of wage inequality in Latin America since 1995, with a sharp reduction starting in 2002. The Gini coefficient of wages increased from 42 to 44 between 1995 and 2002 and declined to 39 by 2015. Between 2002 and 2015, the 90/10 log hourly...

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Revised estimates of the impact of climate change on extreme poverty by 2030 : Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020 background paper

Jafino, Bramka Arga; Walsh, Brian; Rozenberg, Julie; … - 2020

Thousands of scenarios are used to provide updated estimates for the impacts of climate change on extreme poverty in 2030. The range of the number of people falling into poverty due to climate change is between 32 million and 132 million in most scenarios. These results are commensurate with...

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The drivers of firms’ compliance to environmental regulations : the case of India

Franco-Bedoya, Sebastian; Mani, Muthukumara S. - 2020

Regulatory compliance is key in the fight against climate change and other environmental challenges. But regulatory agencies, especially in developing countries, are often hampered by their capacity to monitor and enforce standards and regulations against recalcitrant firms. There is now a big...

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The use of data analytics techniques to assess the functioning of a government’s financial management information system : an application to Pakistan and Cambodia

Hashim, Ali; Piatti-Fünfkirchen, Moritz; Cole, Winston; … - 2019

Public financial management enablesgovernment to implement policy. Financial management information systems are a central element of PFM in that they facilitate government financial transactions and subject them to rigorous budgetary controls. Therefore, the adequate use of FMIS systems supports...

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