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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
Asia region can be divided into two groups, in terms of the magnitude and composition of the innovation activities: leaders … (Bangladesh and India) and laggards (Nepal and Pakistan). Leaders present higher rates of innovation activities than laggards and … similar patterns when considering leaders and laggards, with the acquisition of knowledge capital (for example, research and …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012121233
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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
, suggesting that institutions constraining leaders are important for stabilizing growth. This is particularly relevant for Sub … of the slump to its trough. The results establish three new stylized facts: (i) weak political institutions predate …-Saharan Africa, where politics are often ethnic and decision makers are comparatively unconstrained …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008015
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114119
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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
factor in Sub-Saharan Africa, while health effects, natural disasters, and food prices are all important in South Asia. These …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390654
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Productivity growth : patterns and determinants across the world
Kim, Young Eun; Loayza, Norman - 2019
, education, market efficiency, infrastructure, and institutions. Based on underlying proxies, the paper constructs indexes … Development countries and education for developing countries in the most recent decade. The regression results indicate that …
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