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Investment climate and employment growth: the impact of access to finance, corruption and regulations across firms
Aterido, Reyes; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Pagés, Carmen - 2007
-linearities in their impact on employment growth. The results suggest strong composition effects: A weak business environment shifts … downward the size distribution of firms. In the case of finance and business regulations this occurs by reducing the employment … reduce employment growth by affecting the growth of medium size and large firms. With significant differences between firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268270
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Policy challenges faced by low-income CIS economies
Dabrowski, Marek - 2008
In the 1990s, the CIS region experienced a painful transformation following the collapse of the USSR and the command economy. For the less developed republics of the former USSR, this process was even more dramatic as they lost subsidies from the Union's budget and some of them suffered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430819
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Investment climate and total factor productivity in manufacturing: Analysis of Indian states
Veeramani, C.; Goldar, Bishwanath - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807537
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Has technology hurt less skilled workers? An econometric survey of the effects of technical change on the structure of pay and jobs
Chennells, Lucy; Reenen, John Van - 1999
computing technologies. This paper surveys the evidence on the effects of technical change on skills, wages and employment by … level product innovations appear to raise employment growth, but there is no clear evidence of a robust effect (either …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330338
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A study on the employment and wage outcomes of people with disabilities
Ananian, Sevane; Dellaferrera, Giulia - 2024
This study investigates the employment and wage disparities between people with and without disabilities. It shows that …, the potentially greater job flexibility offered by self-employment, and discrimination against people with disabilities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015063377
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African Monetary Unions - Dominated by the North? Comment on 'The Common Monetary Area' by Martina Metzger and 'The CFA-Zone' by Jan Suchanek
Kohnert, Dirk - In: New Issues in Regional Monetary Coordination: …, (pp. 177-187). 2005
Monetary coordination is high on the agenda of different regional organizations in Africa. Economic benefits of a common currency, like lower transaction cost, increased macroeconomic stability, or the shielding of central banks against political pressure from nationalist elites and their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011331373
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Cultures of Innovation of the African Poor – Common roots, shared traits, joint prospects? On the articulation of multiple modernities in African societies and Black Diasporas in L...
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Auf dem Boden der Tatsachen. Festschrift für Thomas …, (pp. 241-262). 2011
The globalized Western culture of innovation, as propagated by major aid institutions, does not necessarily lead to empowerment or improvement of the well-being of the stakeholders. On the contrary, it often blocks viable indigenous innovation cultures. In African societies and African Diasporas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011331376
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New Markets for Local Experts in Africa?
Kohnert, Dirk - In: More Responsibilities to South Consultants in …, (pp. 63-74). 1995
In the past decades the involvement of local experts in the planning and evaluation of development programs has steadily increased. Ownership of development planning is propagated as major aim of bilateral and international development co-operation. Yet, the quality and performance of many local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011331378
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New Nationalism and Development in Africa: Review Article
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Africa Spectrum 44 (2009) 1, pp. 111-123
About fifty years after the independence of most former colonies on the African continent, books on African nationalism again rank high on the agenda of the international academic discussion. A selection of three recent publications demonstrates the advances made in scholarly analysis in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011331402
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On the Renaissance of African Modes of Thought - The Example of the Belief in Magic and Witchcraft
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Witchcraft in Modern Africa: Witches, witch-hunts and …, (pp. 39-61). 2007
witchcraft violence. Besides this, they might, under certain conditions, provide the outside world with an inspiring new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011331404