development quest. The sample includes Brazil, India, Vietnam and four African countries -- Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia … recently that progress has slowed with an economic environment of lackluster global trade, not enough jobs coupled with skills …

Nigeria's oil boom has not brought an end to perennial stagnation in the non-oil economy. Is this the unavoidable …

. They use a unique firm-level dataset containing data on sales, employment, and exports by product and destination markets …

For decades, agricultural price and trade policies in Sub-Saharan Africa have hampered farmers? contributions to … agricultural development funding, together with ongoing regional and global trade negotiations, have brought distortionary policies … economic welfare and trade? Economy-wide models are able to address that question, but they are not available for many poor …

productivity across male and female plot managers in Nigeria. The analysis utilizes the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition method, which …

, Ghana, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan and the Philippines, to highlight key aspects of their characteristics and experience of … example, measured management practices differ widely across local governments of a single state in Nigeria. Surveys of civil …

in Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, and Sri Lanka. This paper shows that variation in business practices …

Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, and Zambia. Among the policy lessons: 1) Nigeria and Zambia failed to unify and stabilize the … failure. One possible cause of failure -- apart from thin markets, macroeconomic laxity, and vulnerability to terms-of-trade …

agricultural productivity growth on growth of informal (small-scale) manufacturing and skilled services employment, mainly in …This paper provides evidence on the impacts of agricultural productivity on employment growth and structural … village sample leads to underestimation of agriculture's role in employment growth and transformation of non-farm activities …