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Identifying and Spurring High-Growth Entrepreneurship : Experimental Evidence from a Business Plan Competition
McKenzie, David - 2015
Almost all firms in developing countries have fewer than 10 workers, with the modal firm consisting of just the owner. Are there potential high-growth entrepreneurs with the ability to grow their firms beyond this size? And, if so, can public policy help alleviate the constraints that prevent...
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Cross-region transfers in a monetary union : evidence from the US and some implications
Pennings, Steven - 2020
US federal transfers to individuals are large, countercyclical, vary geographically, and are often credited for helping stabilize regional economies. This paper estimates the short-run effects of these transfers using plausibly exogenous regional variation in temporary stimulus packages and...
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Can government intervention make firms more investment-ready? : a randomized experiment in the Western Balkans
Cusolito, Ana Paula; Dautovic, Ernest; McKenzie, David J. - 2018
Many innovative start-ups and small and medium-size enterprises have good ideas, but do not have these ideas fine-tuned to the stage where they can attract outside funding. Investment readiness programs attempt to help firms to become ready to attract and accept outside equity funding through a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011903115
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The dynamics of high-growth firms : evidence from Tunisia
Cruz, Marcio José Vargas da; Baghdadi, Leila; Arouri, … - 2020
This paper examines the dynamics and characteristics of high-growth firms in Tunisia. Further knowledge about the dynamics of these firms can inform the design of business support policies, especially toward small and medium-size firms. The analysis suggests that between 1999 and 2015, about 9...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228772
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Ensuring Integrity in Government's Response to COVID-19
World Bank Group - 2020
Governments around the world are designing and implementing rapid responses to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. In … addressing and mitigating corruption risks in the COVID-19 (coronavirus) response, both in the initial response and in the medium … identifies the broad areas of government response where corruption risks are present and heightened in the context of a pandemic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012647075
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Potential Responses to the COVID-19 Outbreak in Support of Migrant Workers
Moroz, Harry - 2020
migrants and their families due to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak. The note presents the policy options available to … vulnerable to contracting COVID-19 (Coronavirus). Measures put in place to control disease transmission both within and across … to respond to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak should be migrant-sensitive to take into account the unique challenges …
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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Education Financing
Al-Samarrai, Samer - 2020
The brief identifies the ways in which the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic is likely to affect the availability of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012647116
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Protecting People and Economies : Integrated Policy Responses to COVID-19
World Bank Group - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed a global health emergency and an unprecedented economic crisis of historic magnitude. Governments facing this threat are in uncharted territory, but three policy priorities addressed in this note are clear. Disease containment is a first-order concern to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012647125
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The sooner, the better : the early economic impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic
Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli; Lokshin, Michael; Torre, Iván - 2020
The size of the economic shocks triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic and the effects of the associated non-pharmaceutical interventions have not been fully assessed, because the official economic indicators have not been published. This paper provides estimates of the economic impacts of the...
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