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From Tragedy to Renaissance : Improving Agricultural Data for Better Policies
Carletto, Calogero - 2020
Agricultural development is an essential engine of growth and poverty reduction, yet agricultural data suffer from poor quality and narrow sectoral focus. There are several reasons for this: (i) difficult-to-measure smallholder agriculture is prevalent in poor countries, (ii) agricultural data...
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Measuring Firm-Level Innovation Using Short Questionnaires : Evidence from an Experiment
Cirera, X. - 2017
Little is known about innovation in developing countries, partly because of the lack of comparable and reliable data. Collecting data on firm-level innovation is challenging because of the subjective definition of what determines an innovation, a problem that is exacerbated in developing...
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Firm Productivity and Infrastructure Costs in East Africa
Iimi, Atsushi - 2017
the productivity of the economy. Africa has been lagging behind in the global manufacturing market. Among others …
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What Drives the Volatility of Firm Level Productivity in China?
Luo, Xubei - 2017
establishment and closure, of firms became a common phenomenon. The level and volatility of firm productivity have become … productivity volatility. The paper measures productivity volatility at the firm level as the standard deviation of the annual … growth rate of productivity. The main objectives are twofold: first, it examines the variation of productivity volatility …
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The Profits of Wisdom : The Impacts of a Business Support Program in Tanzania
Bardasi, Elena - 2017
Business training programs in low-income settings have shown limited, if any, impacts on firm revenues and profits, particularly for female entrepreneurs. This paper uses a randomized design to compare the impacts of two types of business training programs targeting women with established small...
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The Effect of the Swedish Payroll Tax Cut for Youths on Firm Profitability
Malm, Arvid - 2017
to the retail sector. This paper finds that the reform was not associated with a general increase in firm profitability …
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Informality and Profitability : Evidence from a New Firm Survey in Ecuador
Medvedev, Denis - 2017
This paper estimates the impact of informality on firm profits using a new firm-level survey designed specifically for this study. The survey was administered to about 1,200 firms with 50 employees or less in Ecuador's two largest cities, Quito and Guayaquil, plus two main centers of economic...
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Distribution-Sensitive Multidimensional Poverty Measures
Datt, Gaurav - 2018
This paper presents axiomatic arguments to make the case for distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures. The commonly-used counting measures violate the strong transfer axiom which requires regressive transfers to be unambiguously poverty-increasing and they are also invariant to...
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Finding the Poor vs. Measuring Their Poverty : Exploring the Drivers of Targeting Effectiveness in Indonesia
Bah, Adama - 2018
Centralized targeting registries are increasingly used to allocate social assistance benefits in developing countries. There are two key design issues that matter for targeting accuracy: (i) which households to survey for inclusion in the registry and (ii) how to rank surveyed households. The...
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Do Different Types of Assets Have Differential Effects on Child Education? Evidence from Tanzania
Kafle, Kashi Ram - 2020
To assess the conventional view that assets uniformly improve childhood development through wealth effects, this paper tests whether different types of assets have different effects on child education. The analysis indicates that household durables and housing quality have the expected positive...
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