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In March 2019, Cyclone Idai hit central Mozambique and caused widespread damage, including businesses in the enterprise sector. We use panel data and a randomized controlled trial to estimate the impact of unconditional cash grants on micro enterprises and their recovery. We find that, on...
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picture of the manufacturing sector. However, it is not obvious whether this is true for the population of manufacturing firms … 2017 by considering other indicators of the health of the manufacturing sector in Mozambique, including manufacturing gross … domestic product, the latest enterprise census, and satellite imagery. Results indicate that the manufacturing sector grows at …
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informality as a continuum consisting of four degrees. The quantitative data includes 516 manufacturing enterprises which are …
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After the Second World War, Mozambique went through a series of transformations, from an incipient industrializing colonial society to an independent country with a central planned economy, plus a regional and internal war, and finally from 1994 onwards,
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manufacturing sector. To this effect, it deploys Sanjaya Lall’s technology capabilities conceptual and methodological framework to …
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This paper contributes to the debate on the effects of trade versus technological change on wage differentials. We propose an explanation of the stylized facts which is based on interactions between openness and technological change because of labor market institutions and government...
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Conventional wisdom holds that defense industry consolidation resulted from decreased defense spending. However, we maintain that understanding dynamic changes in key defense institutions helps provide a more complete explanation for observed consolidation. Specifically, we examine the...
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