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Productivity Growth in Europe
Dall'Olio, Andrea - 2017
This paper tests whether structural or firm-specific characteristics contributed more to (labor) productivity growth in the European Union between 2003 and 2008. It combines the Amadeus firm-level data on productivity and firm characteristics with country-level data describing regulatory...
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Debt Overhang in Emerging Europe?
Brown, Martin - 2017
This paper assesses the extent to which debt overhang poses a constraint to economic activity in Emerging Europe, as … imbalance problem for Emerging Europe has been in most cases more one of flows (high current account deficits in the pre … relatively low in Emerging Europe. At the microeconomic level, the potential for debt overhang in the corporate sector is limited …
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Gender and Property Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa : A Review of Constraints and Effective Interventions
O'Sullivan, Michael - 2017
Strengthening women's ownership, control, and use of land, livestock, and savings assets matters for poverty and shared prosperity, as unequal property rights can lead to intrahousehold inequality in wealth; allocative inefficiencies, which are costly in lost economic output and productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943009
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Property Rights, Political Connections, and Corporate Investment
Miao, Meng - 2019
Despite the literature on rural land property rights, studies on urban land property rights are rare. This paper studies the impact of an urban land titling program on firm investment. It finds that the program leads to increased investment rate for titling firms, and the positive effect holds...
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Financial Channels, Property Rights, and Poverty : A Sub-Saharan African Perspective
Singh, Raju Jan - 2017
Studies on the link between financial development and poverty have been inconclusive. Some claim that deeper financial sectors should improve the allocation of capital by allowing entrepreneurs greater access to finance, which should particularly favor the poor. Others argue that improvements in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970072
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Urbanization and Property Rights
Cai, Yongyang - 2017
Since the industrial revolution, the economic development of Western Europe and North America was characterized by …
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Impact of Property Rights Reform to Support China?S Rural-Urban Integration : Village-Level Evidence from the Chengdu National Experiment
Deininger, Klaus - 2017
As part of a national experiment, in 2008 Chengdu prefecture implemented ambitious property rights reforms, including complete registration of all land together with measures to ease transferability and eliminate labor market restrictions. This study uses a discontinuity design with spatial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971262
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Impact of Property Rights Reform to Support China?S Rural-Urban Integration : Household-Level Evidence from the Chengdu National Experiment
Deininger, Klaus - 2017
As part of a national experiment in 2008, Chengdu prefecture implemented ambitious property rights reforms, including complete registration of all land together with measures to ease transferability and eliminate migration restrictions. A triple difference approach using the Statistics Bureau?s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971263
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Strengthening Economic Rights and Women's Occupational Choice : The Impact of Reforming Ethiopia's Family Law
Hallward-Driemeier, Mary - 2017
This paper evaluates the impact of strengthening legal rights on the types of economic opportunities that are pursued. Ethiopia changed its family law, requiring both spouses' consent in the administration of marital property, removing the ability of a spouse to deny permission for the other to...
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Women's Legal Rights Over 50 Years : What is the Impact of Reform?
Hallward-Driemeier, Mary - 2017
This study uses a newly compiled database of women's property rights and legal capacity covering 100 countries over 50 years to test for the impact of legal reforms on employment, health, and education outcomes for women and girls. The database demonstrates gender gaps in the ability to access...
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