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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas

Maloney, William F. - 2017

This paper offers the first evidence on the prevalence of a central actor in modern growth theory?the engineer. Using newly collected sub-national, and international data as well as historical case studies, it then argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of...

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Crossovers : Female Entrepreneurs Who Enter Male Sectors -- Evidence from Ethiopia

Alibhai, Salman - 2017

Occupational sector selection is an important determinant of returns for female entrepreneurs. If sectors that are traditionally male owned could provide an opportunity to earn higher returns, then what factors could encourage women to cross over into these sectors or prevent them from doing so?...

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Women's Entrepreneurship : How to Measure the Gap between New Female and Male Entrepreneurs?

Meunier, Frédéric - 2017

This paper analyzes data on female and male entrepreneurship that were collected by the World Bank Group …'s Entrepreneurship Database. Recognizing the importance of a differentiated approach to entrepreneurship in terms of legal entities, the …. Forty-four of the 143 economies that participated in the Entrepreneurship project provided some sex-disaggregated data for …

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Political Reservations and Women's Entrepreneurship in India

Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017

heightened entrepreneurship is due to channels like greater finance access or heightened inspiration for women entrepreneurs …

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Factions, Local Accountability, and Long-Term Development : County-Level Evidence from a Chinese Province

Fang, Hanming - 2019

This paper investigates, both theoretically and empirically, the role of factional competition and local accountability in explaining the enormous but puzzling county-level variations in development performance in Fujian province of China. When the Communist armies took over Fujian from the...

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How and Why Does History Matter for Development Policy?

Woolcock, Michael - 2017

conclusion that "history matters," since institutions clearly form and evolve over time. Unfortunately, however, the next logical … useful and distinctive insights to offer. This paper endeavors to open and sustain a constructive dialogue between history …

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Determinants of Social Distancing and Economic Activity During COVID-19 : A Global View

Maloney, William F. - 2020

The paper uses Google mobility data to identify the determinants of social distancing during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak. The findings for the United States indicate that much of the decrease in mobility is voluntary, driven by the number of COVID-19 cases and proxying for greater awareness of...

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Jobs' Amenability to Working from Home : Evidence from Skills Surveys for 53 Countries

Hatayama, Maho - 2020

The spread of COVID-19 and implementation of "social distancing" policies around the world have raised the question of how many jobs can be done at home. This paper uses skills surveys from 53 countries at varying levels of economic development to estimate jobs' amenability to working from home....

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Antidiscrimination Law and Shared Prosperity : An Analysis of the Legal Framework of Six Economies and Their Impact on the Equality of Opportunities of Ethnic, Religious, and Sexua...

Panter, Elaine Rene Elizabeth - 2017

This paper looks at the structural marginalization of ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities in six pilot economies (Bulgaria, Mexico, Morocco, the Netherlands, Tanzania, and Vietnam) and proposes a new methodology for collecting cross-country comparable data on antidiscrimination legal...

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International Comparisons of Poverty in South Asia

Islam, T. M. Tonmoy - 2018

This paper explores the methodological differences underlying the construction of the national consumption aggregates that are used to estimate international poverty rates for all countries in the South Asia region, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and...

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