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industrial growth in India. The expected annual sales growth rate of an enterprise is lower where labor regulation is greater … business growth seem also to depend on a fourth element, namely, corruption. Specifically, labor regulation affects the growth … only of enterprises for which corruption is not a factor in business decisions. By contrast, power shortages seem to be a …
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The Government of Rwanda has introduced several reforms since 2009 that have significantly improved the domestic business environment. One of the reforms is the one-stop shop for business registration. Making use of newly available administrative data sources such as tax and company...
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effects with a review of the relevant literature. The authors study consumption and income responses, labor market responses …
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with a review of the literature. It studies consumption and income responses, labor-market responses, and spillovers across …
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This paper introduces the first effort to quantitatively document the small arms market by collating field reports and … market is developed and empirically estimated to identify the key determinants of assault rifle prices. Variables which proxy …
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largest economy and mobile broadband market in Africa. The analysis exploits a unique dataset that integrates three waves of a …
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The dramatic expansion of mobile phone use in developing countries has given rise to a rich and largely untapped source of information about the characteristics of communities and regions. Call Detail Records (CDRs) obtained from cellular phones provide highly granular real-time data that can be...
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. Existing evidence suggests that increased access to information technology has improved agricultural market efficiency for …
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The proliferation of mobile phones in developing countries has generated a wave of interest in collecting high-frequency socioeconomic surveys using this technology. This paper considers lessons from one such survey effort in a difficult environment -- the South Sudan Experimental Phone Survey,...
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As mobile phone ownership rates have risen in Africa, there is increased interest in using mobile telephony as a data collection platform. This paper draws on two pilot projects that use mobile phone interviews for data collection in Tanzania and South Sudan. The experience was largely a...
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