Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 387
Cover Image
Urbanization and the Geography of Development
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2017
herald cities with their industrial bases as "engines of growth," does industrialization in fact drive urbanization? While … industrialization correlate only weakly with changes in urbanization. This suggests that policy and institutional factors may also … influence the urbanization process. In fact, the relationship between industrialization and urbanization is absent in Sub …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973214
Cover Image
Insuring Growth : The Impact of Disaster Funds on Economic Reconstruction in Mexico
de Janvry, Alain - 2017
reconstruction funds in Mexico, this paper provides some of the first estimates of the impact of disaster funds on local economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968742
Cover Image
Crime and Growth Convergence : Evidence from Mexico
Enamorado, Ted - 2017
exploiting cross-municipality income and crime data for Mexico -- a country that experienced a high increase in crime rates over … municipal level for Mexico (2005-2010), the analysis finds evidence indicating that drug-related crimes indeed deter growth. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973662
Cover Image
Poverty Convergence in a Time of Stagnation : A Municipal-Level Perspective from Mexico (1992-2014)
Lopez-Calva, Luis-Felipe - 2019
This paper exploits a novel municipal-level data set to explore patterns of convergence in income and poverty in Mexico …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859500
Cover Image
Large Farm Establishment, Smallholder Productivity, Labor Market Participation, and Resilience : Evidence from Ethiopia
Ali, Daniel Ayalew - 2018
Although the nature and magnitude of (positive or negative) spillovers from large farm establishment are hotly debated, most evidence relies on case studies. Ethiopia's large farms census together with 11 years of nation-wide smallholder surveys allows examination and quantification of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936456
Cover Image
Quantifying Spillover Effects from Large Farm Establishments : The Case of Mozambique
Deininger, Klaus - 2018
Almost a decade after large land-based investment for agriculture increased sharply, opinions on its impact continue to diverge, partly because (positive or negative) spillovers on neighboring smallholders have never been rigorously assessed. Applying methods from the urban literature on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936813
Cover Image
Are Large Firms Born or Made? Evidence from Developing Countries
Ayyagari, Meghana - 2017
This paper uses survey data from 120 developing countries to compare the role of institutions with firm characteristics at the time of creation of the firm in explaining the size, growth, and productivity of firms over their lifecycle. The study finds that firm-level characteristics have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971131
Cover Image
Are Mega-Farms the Future of Global Agriculture? Exploring the Farm Size-Productivity Relationship
Deininger, Klaus - 2017
With farms cultivating tens or hundreds of thousands of hectares, Ukraine is often used to demonstrate the existence of economies of scale in modern grain production. Panel data analysis for all the country's farms with more than 200 hectares in 2001-2011 suggests that higher yields and profits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974141
Cover Image
Lobbying for Capital Tax Benefits and Misallocation of Resources During a Credit Crunch
Zaourak, Gabriel Roberto - 2018
Corporations often have strong incentives to exert influence on the tax code and obtain additional tax benefits through lobbying. For the U.S. financial crisis of 2007-09, this paper shows that lobbying activity intensified, driven by large firms in sectors that depend more on external finance....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922883
Cover Image
The Return to Firm Investment in Human Capital
Almeida, Rita - 2016
In this paper the authors estimate the rate of return to firm investments in human capital in the form of formal job training. They use a panel of large firms with unusually detailed information on the duration of training, the direct costs of training, and several firm characteristics such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012748073