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Female Business Ownership and Informal Sector Persistence

Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017

The informal sector in India has been exceptionally persistent over the past two decades. Is this a bad thing? Not necessarily. This paper shows that a substantial share of the persistence in India's unorganized manufacturing sector is due to the rapid increase in female-owned businesses. Had...

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Friend or Foe or Family? A Tale of Formal and Informal Plants in India

Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017

sector in India. How has the size and productivity of the plants in the organized sector affected the plants in the … on and responsive to organized sector presence than vice versa. Second, unorganized sector productivity is dependent on … and responsive to organized sector productivity and presence but the reverse is not true …

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Urbanization and Agglomeration Benefits : Gender Differentiated Impacts on Enterprise Creation in India's Informal Sector

Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017

This paper presents an exploration at the intersection of four important themes in the current development discourse: urbanization, agglomeration benefits, gender and informality. Focusing on the important policy objective of new enterprise creation in the informal sector, it asks and answers...

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The Exceptional Persistence of India's Unorganized Sector

Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017

The transformation of India's unorganized sector is important to its modernization, growth, and attainment of regional economic equality. This paper documents several key facts about India's unorganized sector in manufacturing and services. First, the unorganized sector is large, accounting for...

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Short-Term Effects of India's Employment Guarantee Program on Labor Markets and Agricultural Productivity

Deininger, Klaus - 2018

's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme on wages, labor supply, agricultural labor use, and productivity … productivity effects were modest, total employment generated by the program (but not employment in irrigation-related activities …) significantly increased productivity, suggesting alleviation of liquidity constraints and implicit insurance provision rather than …

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Using National Statistics to Increase Transparency of Large Land Acquisition : Evidence from Ethiopia

Ali, Daniel Ayalew - 2017

) allowing assessment of the productivity of land use and taking measures to increase it; (ii) comparing productivity between …

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Costs and Benefits of Land Fragmentation : Evidence from Rwanda

Ali, Daniel Ayalew - 2017

This paper disentangles different aspects of land fragmentation and its impact on the efficiency of resource use. The paper uses information on the incidence of crop shocks to assess whether fragmentation provides benefits in reducing risk and parcel coordinates and terrain-adjusted travel times...

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Smallholders? Land Ownership and Access in Sub-Saharan Africa : A New Landscape?

Deininger, Klaus - 2017

While scholars agree on the importance of land rental markets for structural transformation in rural areas, evidence on the extent and nature of their operation, including potential obstacles to their improved functioning, remains limited. This study uses household-level data from six countries...

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Is There a Farm-Size Productivity Relationship in African Agriculture? Evidence from Rwanda

Ali, Daniel Ayalew - 2017

Whether the negative relationship between farm size and productivity that is confirmed in a large global literature … inverse productivity relationship in Rwanda, where policy makers consider land fragmentation and small farm sizes to be key … reason for the inverse farm-size productivity relationship …

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Credit Constraints, Agricultural Productivity, and Rural Nonfarm Participation : Evidence from Rwanda

Ali, Daniel Ayalew - 2017

Although the potentially negative impacts of credit constraints on economic development have long been discussed conceptually, empirical evidence for Africa remains limited. This study uses a direct elicitation approach for a national sample of Rwandan rural households to assess empirically the...

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