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Dynamics of demand for rainfall index insurance : evidence from a commercial product in India
Stein, Daniel - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
This paper analyzes the dynamic nature of rainfall insurance purchasing decisions, specifically looking at whether and why receiving an insurance payout induces a greater chance of purchasing insurance again the next year. This analysis uses customer data from the Indian micro-finance...
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Local intermediate inputs and the shared supplier spillovers of foreign direct investment
Kee, Hiau Looi - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Trade liberalizations have been shown to improve domestic firms'performance through the new varieties of imported intermediate inputs. This paper uses a unique, representative sample of Bangladeshi garment firms to highlight that local intermediate inputs may also enhance domestic...
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Non-farm enterprises in rural Africa : new empirical evidence
Nagler, Paula; Naude, Wim - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
operating a non-farm enterprise. Households are also pulled into entrepreneurship to exploit opportunities. Access to credit and … operating an enterprise. The characteristics are also associated with the type of business activity a household operates. Rural … and female-headed enterprises and enterprises with young enterprise owners are less productive than urban and male …
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Exports and productivity - comparable evidence for 14 countries
Economics Research, World Bank Group; The International … - 2007
The authors use comparable micro level panel data for 14 countries and a set of identically specified empirical models to investigate the relationship between exports and productivity. The overall results are in line with the big picture that is by now familiar from the literature: Exporters are...
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R&D and aggregate fluctuations
Artuc, Erhan; Pourpourides, Panayiotis M. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2012
The research and development (R&D) sector is considered one of the main driving forces of sustainable growth in the long run. The sector, however, also shows excessive volatility which raises interesting questions regarding the sources of this volatility as well as the nature of the relation...
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Performance-related pay in the public sector : a review of theory and evidence
Hasnain, Zahid; Manning, Nick; Henryk, Pierskalla - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2012
The objective of this paper is to provide a review of the theoretical and, in particular, empirical literature on performance-related pay in the public sector spanning the fields of public administration, psychology, economics, education, and health with the aim of distilling useful lessons for...
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Modeling the roles of heterogeneity, substitution, and inventories in the assessment of natural disaster economic costs
Hallegatte, Stephane - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2012
Based on an IO structure, the ARIO-inventory model simulates the economic consequences and responses to a natural disaster. It represents explicitly production bottlenecks, models a flexibility in production capacity in case of scarcity, and introduces inventories as an additional flexibility in...
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The spatial development of India
Desmet, Klaus; Ghani, Ejaz; O'Connell, Stephen; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2012
In the last two decades the Indian economy has been growing unabatedly, with memories of the Hindu rate of growth rapidly fading. But this unprecedented growth has also resulted in widening spatial disparities. While cities such as Hyderabad have emerged as major clusters of high development,...
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Learning versus stealing : how Important are market-share -- reallocations to India's productivity growth?
Harrison, Ann E.; Martin, Leslie A.; Nataraj, Shanthi - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011
Recent trade theory emphasizes the role of market-share reallocations across firms ("stealing") in driving productivity growth, while the older literature focused on average productivity improvements ("learning"). The authors use comprehensive, firm-level data from India's organized...
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Competition and innovation-driven inclusive growth
Dutz, Mark A.; Kessides, Ioannis; O'Connell, Stephen; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011
The paper investigates the strength of innovation-driven employment growth, the role of competition in stimulating and facilitating it, and whether it is inclusive. In a sample of more than 26,000 manufacturing establishments across 71 countries (both OECD and developing), the authors find that...
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