Documents et rapports

Digital Africa - Technological Transformation for Jobs (anglais)

Digital technologies (DTs) have emerged as an essential element of a good-jobs strategy for African countries. This report presents the best available evidence on the transformative effects of DTs—showing...

Digital Technology Uses among Microenterprises : Why Is Productive Use So Low across Sub-Saharan Africa ? (anglais)

This paper explores the use of digital technologies, their association with performance outcomes, and the main constraints to greater use among microenterprises. The study uses a sample of more than 3,300...

Informal Microenterprises in Senegal : Performance Outcomes and Possible Avenues to Boost Productivity and Jobs (anglais)

This paper explores differences and similarities across formal and informal microenterprises in Senegal. It uses a new national sample of more than 500 firms, of which two-thirds are informal and over...

Digital Senegal for Inclusive Growth : Technological Transformation for Better and More Jobs (français)

Digital Senegal for Inclusive Growth explores possible solutions for a more intensive use of digital technologies, especially by small and medium enterprises, to increase their productivity and create...

Digital Senegal for Inclusive Growth : Technological Transformation for Better and More Jobs (anglais)

Digital Senegal for Inclusive Growth explores possible solutions for a more intensive use of digital technologies, especially by small and medium enterprises, to increase their productivity and create...

Ghana Country Economic Memorandum : Ghana Rising - Accelerating Economic Transformation and Creating Jobs (anglais)

Ghana has been a rising growth star and a beacon of hope in West Africa. Strong economic growth over the past two decades led to a near doubling of GDP per capita, lifting the country through the threshold...

L’Avenir du Travail en Afrique : Exploiter le Potentiel des Technologies Numeriques pour un Monde du Travail Plus Inclusif (français)

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Digital Technology Uses among Informal Micro-Sized Firms : Productivity and Jobs Outcomes in Senegal (anglais)

This paper explores the use of digital technologies among informal micro-sized firms in Senegal, their association with productivity, sales, exports and jobs, and the role of age and gender dimensions...

The Future of Work in Africa : Harnessing the Potential of Digital Technologies for All (anglais)

The Future of Work in Africa focuses on the key themes of creating productive jobs and addressing the needs of those left behind. It highlights how global trends, especially the adoption of digital technologies...

Jobs and growth : Brazil’s productivity agenda (portugais)

Brazil enters the election year 2018 with an economy that is gradually recovering from the deepest recession in its recent economic history. This book is motivated by the need to understand the possible...

Jobs and growth : Brazil’s productivity agenda (anglais)

Brazil enters the election year 2018 with an economy that is gradually recovering from the deepest recession in its recent economic history. This book is motivated by the need to understand the possible...

The jobs of tomorrow : technology, productivity, and prosperity in Latin America and the Caribbean (espagnol)

Policy makers throughout Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) will like to understand how best to leverage recent and ongoing global, business-relevant technologies to support productivity upgrading with...

The jobs of tomorrow : technology, productivity, and prosperity in Latin America and the Caribbean (anglais)

Policy makers throughout Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) will like to understand how best to leverage recent and ongoing global, business-relevant technologies to support productivity upgrading with...

The jobs of tomorrow : technology, productivity, and prosperity in Latin America and the Caribbean (anglais)

While adoption of new technologies is understood to enhance long-term growth and average per capita incomes, its impact on low-skilled workers is more complex and merits clarification. Concerns abound...

Business support policies : large spending, little impact (anglais)

The focus of this paper is on policies that ought to support productivity, output and employment growth. This support can be direct and indirect, targeted to specific sectors or types of firms or wide...

Can business input improve the effectiveness of worker training? evidence from Brazil's Pronatec-MDIC (anglais)

This study evaluates the employment effects of a publicly-run national technical vocational education training program in Brazil that explicitly takes input from firms in determining the location, scale...

Economywide and sectoral impacts on workers of Brazil’s internet rollout (anglais)

This paper is a study of the effect of Brazil's staggered Internet rollout between 2000 and 2014 on municipality employment and wages. The study uses a new, annual data set on Internet availability from...

Brazil - Rio Grande do Sul SWAp : P120830 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 09 (anglais)

Brazil - Rio Grande do Sul SWAp : P120830 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 08 (anglais)

Public and private investments in innovation capabilities : structural transformation in the Chilean wine industry (anglais)

This paper assembles novel data on the Chilean wine industry to investigate the role of investments in knowledge capital on sales growth in domestic and international markets. The study uses archival data...