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Informality and firm performance in Myanmar
Berkel, Hanna; Tarp, Finn - 2020
different informality definitions. The first is binary, based on whether firms pay taxes. The second captures five categories of … registration with the authorities, and the third definition relates to three groupings of the informality status of a firm …'s workers. Depending on the informality concept used, formalization has positive, insignificant, and negative performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424160
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What explains the disaster preparedness of micro-enterprises? Examining socio-psychological characteristics and information provision
Berkel, Hanna; Tarp, Finn - 2024
Worldwide, enterprises are hit by disasters such as cyclones and floods. Despite being impacted negatively, most enterprises do not prepare for future disasters. This study aims at understanding the determinants of enterprises' disaster preparedness. It first examines whether specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477506
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Informality and firm performance in Myanmar
Berkel, Hanna; Tarp, Finn - 2020
different informality definitions. The first is binary, based on whether firms pay taxes. The second captures five categories of … registration with the authorities, and the third definition relates to three groupings of the informality status of a firm …'s workers. Depending on the informality concept used, formalization has positive, insignificant, and negative performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405575
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Informality and firm performance in Myanmar
Berkel, Hanna; Tarp, Finn - In: The journal of development studies 58 (2022) 7, pp. 1363-1382
Using a unique panel survey of enterprises, we examine the relationship between four categories of formalization and firm productivity. We carry out one- and two-step productivity estimations whose robustness we check with matching and doubly robust estimators. The only formalization category...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362352
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What explains the disaster preparedness of micro-enterprises? : examining socio-psychological characteristics and information provision
Berkel, Hanna; Tarp, Finn - 2024
Worldwide, enterprises are hit by disasters such as cyclones and floods. Despite being impacted negatively, most enterprises do not prepare for future disasters. This study aims at understanding the determinants of enterprises' disaster preparedness. It first examines whether specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014457620
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Climate change and developing country interests : cases from the Zambezi River Basin
Arndt, Channing; Chinowsky, Paul; Fant, Charles; … - 2015
We consider the interplay of climate change impacts, global mitigation policies, and the interests of developing countries to 2050. Focusing on Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, we employ a structural approach to biophysical and economic modeling that incorporates climate uncertainty and allows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390407
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Aid, social policy and development
Addison, Tony; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Tarp, Finn - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 27 (2015) 8, pp. 1351-1365
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400990
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Aid, social policy, and development
Addison, Tony; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Tarp, Finn - 2015
This paper discusses past and current social policy strategies in the international aid architecture. From the 1990s, aid strategy and policy shifted to put a stronger emphasis on human development. This accelerated with the Millennium Development Goals and will continue under the Sustainable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011312747
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Measuring poverty and wellbeing in developing countries : a study prepared by the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
Arndt, Channing (ed.); Tarp, Finn (ed.) - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2017
Detailed analyses of poverty and wellbeing in developing countries, based on household surveys, have been ongoing for more than three decades. The large majority of developing countries now regularly conduct a variety of household surveys, and their information base with respect to poverty and...
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Inequality : measurement, trends, impacts and policies
Addison, Tony; Pirttilä, Jukka; Tarp, Finn - In: The review of income and wealth : journal of the … 63 (2017) 4, pp. 603-607
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011820174