Documents et rapports
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Mobility and earnings in Ethiopia's urban labor markets, 1994-2004 (anglais)
An analysis of panel data on individuals in a random selection of urban households in Ethiopia reveals large, sustained, and unexplained earnings gaps between public and private, and formal and informal...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4168 Date du document: 1 mars 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bigsten,Arne L,Mengistae,Taye Alemu,Abebe,Abebe Shimeles
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What have we learned from a decade of manufacturing enterprise surveys in Africa? (anglais)
In the early 1990s the World Bank launched the Regional Program on Enterprise Development (RPED) in several African countries, a key component of which was to collect data on manufacturing firms. The data...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 76763 Date du document: 2 août 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bigsten,Arne L,Soderbom,Mans Martin
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What have we learned from a decade of manufacturing enterprise surveys in Africa ? (anglais)
In the early 1990s the World Bank launched the Regional Program on Enterprise Development in several African countries, a key component of which was the collection of manufacturing firm-level data. In...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3798 Date du document: 1 décembre 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bigsten,Arne L,Soderbom,Mans Martin
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Enhancing the competitiveness of Kenya's manufacturing sector: the role of the investment climate (anglais)
The objectives of the ICA are to assess the current performance of formal manufacturing firms, to identify the key constraints on their growth and competitiveness, and to prioritize and assess policy priorities...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 33664 Date du document: 1 novembre 2004 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Blattman,Christopher,Cotton,Linda,Desai,Vyjayanti Tharmaratnam,Elbadawi,Ibrahim Ahmed,Habyarimana,James Paul,Marchat,Jean Michel Noel,Ramachandran,Vijaya,Shah,Manju Kedia,Ajayi, Kehnide,Kimuyu,Peter K.,Ngugi,Rose,Bigsten,Arne L,Soderbom,Mans Martin
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Risk sharing in labor markets (anglais)
Empirical work in labor economics has focused on rent sharing as an explanation for the observed correlation between wages and profitability. The alternative explanation of risk sharing between workers...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 77416 Date du document: 1 septembre 2003 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bigsten,Arne L,Collier,Paul,Dercon,Stefan,Fafchamps,Marcel,Gauthier,Bernard P.,Gunning,Jan Willem,Oduro,Abena F. D.,Oostendorp,Remco H.,Pattillo, Cat
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The World Bank economic review 17 (3) (anglais)
Macro and micro perspectives of growth and poverty in Africa; by Luc Christiaensen, Lionel Demery, and Stefano Paternostro. Risk sharing in labor markets; by Arne Bigsten, Paul Collier, Stefan Dercon...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 28411 Date du document: 1 janvier 2003 Auteur: Bigsten,Arne L,Birdsall,Nancy M.,Christiaensen,Luc,Claessens, Stijn,Collier,Paul,Contreras,Dante,Demery,Lionel,Dercon,Stefan,Diwan,Ishac,Fafchamps,Marcel,Gauthier,Bernard P.,Gomez-Lobo,Andres,Gunning, Jam Willem,Mann,Catherine Louise,Oduro,Abena F. D.,Oostendorp,Remco H.,Otsuki,Tsunehiro,Paternostro,Stefano,Pattillo, Cathy,Soderbom,Mans Martin,Teal,Francis John,Wilson,John S.,Winters, L. Alan [editor],Zeufack,Albert G.
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Aid and reform in Africa (anglais)
This book synthesizes the findings from ten case studies that investigate whether, when, and how foreign aid affected economic policy in Africa, and reveals the range of African policy experience. Results...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 22118 Date du document: 30 avril 2001 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Devarajan,Shantayanan,Dollar,David R.,Holmgren, Torgny [editors),Tsikata,Yvonne M.,Kasekende,Louis A.,Atingi-Ego, Michael,Ddamulira, Daniel,Abegaz,Berhanu,Guillaumont,Patrick,Guillaumont Jeanneney, Sylviane,Amprou, Jacky,Cheick Sidibe, Oumar,Bigsten,Arne L,Mutalemwa,Deogratias Peter,Wangwe,Samuel Mwita,Berg,Elliot J.,Pegatienan,Hiey Jacques,O'Brien,F. Stephen,Ryan, Terry C.I.,Rakner, Lise,van de Walle, Nicolas,Mulaisho,Dominic C.,Kiakwama,Gilbert Kia Kiziki,Chevallier,Jerome F.
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Aid and reform in Tanzania (anglais)
The purpose of this study is to get a better understanding of the causes of policy reform in Tanzania. Specifically we will investigate if and how aid has encouraged, generated, influenced, supported or...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 35728 Date du document: 1 août 1999 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bigsten,Arne L,Mutalemwa,Deogratias Peter,Tsikata,Yvonne M.,Wangwe,Samuel Mwita
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Expectations in a dynamic investment model : survey evidence from Kenya and Zimbabwe (anglais)
The theoretical literature on investment stresses the role of expectations, but in empirical work data on expectations are rarely available. This paper draws on survey data for manufacturing firms in Kenya...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 56897 Date du document: 1 juillet 1998 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bigsten,Arne L,Collier,Paul,Dercon,Stefan,Fafchamps,Marcel,Gauthier,Bernard P.,Gunning,Jan Willem,Issaksson, Anders,Oduro,Abena F. D.,Oostendorp,Remco H.,Pattillo, Cathy,Soderbom,Mans Martin,Teal,Francis John,Zeufack,Albert G.
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Regional Programme on Enterprise Development (RPED) : report on round three of the Kenya survey (anglais)
The World Bank is undertaking a large cross-country study of enterprise development in Africa, with Kenya as one of the participating countries. The three rounds of interviews in Kenya were done in 1993...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 56878 Date du document: 1 mai 1996 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bigsten,Arne L