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Business Environment, Economic Agglomeration and Job Creation Around the World
Clarke, George R. G. - 2017
Based on a comprehensive worldwide firm survey, this paper looks at how the business environment and economic agglomeration affect job creation, holding constant conventional determinants of firm growth, such as firm ownership, size, and age. The analysis finds that economic agglomeration is...
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Productivity Growth and Job Creation in the Development Process of Industrial Clusters
Sonobe, Tetsushi - 2017
Poor management has long been suspected as a major constraint on job creation in the manufacturing sector in low-income countries. In this sector, countless micro and small enterprises in industrial clusters account for a large share of employment. This paper examines the roles of industrial...
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Fewer Jobs or Smaller Paychecks? Aggregate Crisis Impacts in Selected Middle-Income Countries
Khanna, Gaurav - 2017
This paper reviews evidence from 44 middle-income countries on how the recent financial crisis affected jobs and workers' incomes. In addition to providing a rare assessment of the magnitude of the impact across several middle-income countries, the paper describes how labor markets adjusted and...
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Trade and Employment : Stylized Facts and Research Findings
Hoekman, Bernard; Winters, L. Alan - 2014
the subset of the literature focusing on trade policy and integration into the world economy. Although in the longer run …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014063033
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Determinants of International Buyout Investments
Aldatmaz, Serdar - 2020
Using a comprehensive and proprietary data set on international private equity activity, this paper studies the determinants of buyout investments across 61 countries and 19 industries over 1990-2017. The study finds evidence that macroeconomic conditions, development of stock and credit...
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Financial Sector Policy in Practice : Benchmarking Financial Sector Strategies Around the World
Maimbo, Samuel Munzele - 2017
paper examines and rates financial sector strategies around the world based on how well they formulate development targets …
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Financial Inclusion and the Role of the Post Office
Anson, Jose - 2017
Given their widespread presence in rural and poor areas, post offices can play a leading role in advancing financial inclusion. Yet little is known about the type of clients that post offices reach through their financial service offerings as compared with clients of traditional financial...
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Benchmarking Financial Systems Around the World
Čihák, Martin - 2017
This paper introduces the Global Financial Development Database, an extensive dataset of financial system characteristics for 205 economies from 1960 to 2010. The database includes measures of (a) size of financial institutions and markets (financial depth), (b) degree to which individuals can...
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Job Growth and Finance : Are Some Financial Institutions Better Suited to Early Stages of Development than Others?
Cull, Robert - 2017
This paper combines firm-level data from 89 countries with updated country-level data on financial structure, and uses two estimation approaches. It finds that in low-income countries, labor growth is swifter in countries with a higher level of private credit/gross domestic product; the positive...
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Access to Financial Services and the Financial Inclusion Agenda Around the World : A Cross-Country Analysis with a New Data Set
Ardic, Oya Pinar - 2017
at the core of policymakers? agendas. The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor and the World Bank Group, in response … inform the policy debate. Using this database, this paper (i) counts the number of unbanked adults around the world at 56 …) discusses the state of financial inclusion mandates around the world …
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