-in-difference method. The results suggest that the highways shifted employment from the farm to the nonfarm sector, and that this shift was …, the poverty rate, or the incidence of regular wage employment. The results suggest that the highways caused an increase in …

treatment impacts and their heterogeneity. The average impact of training on employment is positive, but close to zero and … training, the paper finds that training had statistically significant effects on the quality of employment and that the …

countries, this paper finds that average enterprise-level employment growth rates are remarkably similar across regions. This is …, enterprises? employment in Sub-Saharan Africa is less sensitive to changes in access to infrastructure and finance relative to … access to finance generally hamper growth, in Sub-Saharan Africa they are actually associated with higher employment growth …

This paper explores the use of fiscal policy to accelerate development in Pakistan during the period 2013-2022, with a … final high-growth scenario explores requirements and consequences for Pakistan's economy if, during the period 2013-2022, it … well as the major production sectors. Its effects would include significant, broader gains in terms of poverty reduction …

The Punjab Female School Stipend Program, a female-targeted conditional cash transfer program in Pakistan, was …

direct impact of a female school stipend program in Punjab, Pakistan: Did the intervention increase female enrollment in …

Pakistan, and assesses the potential to improve the system's outcomes through alternative targeting and program design. The …

to avoid regulatory capture, and the capture of the privatization process itself. In addition, the speed of transfer …