Documents et rapports
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Herder-Related Violence, Agricultural Work, and the Informal Sector as a Safety Net (anglais)
Violent conflict between nomadic herders and settled—mostly agricultural—communities in Nigeria occurs as both groups clash over the use of land and resources, in part, due to a changing climate. This...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10607 Date du document: 15 novembre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bloem,Jeffrey Richard,Damon,Amy,Francis,David C.,Mitchell,Harrison
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Beyond Political Connections : A Measurement Model Approach to Estimating Firm-level Political Influence in 41 Economies (anglais)
This paper considers the political influence of private firms. While such influence is frequently discussed, there is limited analysis of how firms combine political interactions, and under what conditions...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10119 Date du document: 5 juillet 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Francis,David C.,Kubinec ,Robert
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Transactional Governance Structures : New Cross-Country Data and an Application to the Effect of Uncertainty (anglais)
To what extent are personal trust, mutual interests, and third parties important in enforcing agreements to trade? How do firms combine these to form transactional governance structures? This paper answers...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10118 Date du document: 5 juillet 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Francis,David C.,Karalashvili,Nona,Murrell,Peter
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Surveying Informal Businesses : Methodology and Applications (anglais)
Informal business activity is ubiquitous around the world, but it is nearly always uncaptured by administrative data, registries, or commercial sources. For this reason, there are rarely adequate sampling...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9905 Date du document: 19 janvier 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Aga,Gemechu A.,Francis,David C.,Jolevski,Filip,Rodriguez Meza,Jorge Luis,Wimpey,Joshua Seth
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Measuring Total Factor Productivity Using the Enterprise Surveys : A Methodological Note (anglais)
Total factor productivity is a key element of economic growth and an important performance metric for policy makers. This note describes the methodology for measuring firm-level total factor productivity...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9491 Date du document: 8 décembre 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Francis,David C.,Karalashvili,Nona,Maemir,Hibret Belete,Rodriguez Meza,Jorge Luis
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Informality, Harassment, and Corruption : Evidence from Informal Enterprise Data from Harare, Zimbabwe (anglais)
New representative survey data for Harare, Zimbabwe are used to analyze the conditions under which informal businesses encounter requests for bribes. A simple model develops basic expectations of bribe...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8918 Date du document: 26 juin 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Francis,David C.
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Turkey Country Economic Memorandum : Firm Productivity and Economic Growth (anglais)
Turkey’s pace of income convergence has globally been one of the most remarkable of the past fifteen years. Sustaining growth and improvements in living standards in Turkey will require higher productivity...
Type de document: Mémorandum économique sur un pays Numéro du rapport: 136458 Date du document: 29 avril 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Rab,Habib Nasser,Yasar,Pinar,Varela,Gonzalo J.,Kouame,Auguste Tano,Mahajan,Sandeep,Francis,David C.,Divanbeigi,Raian,Kilinc,Umut,Makovec,Mattia,Atas,Erdem,Polat,Beyza
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Are Management Practices Failing or Aiding the Private Sector in South America? (anglais)
An expanding body of literature has shown that better management practices can offer significant boosts to firms' productivity; this research illustrates that firms in South America are no exception. Using...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8783 Date du document: 19 mars 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hyland,Marie Caitriona,Francis,David C.,Rodriguez Meza,Jorge Luis
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Navigating the Landscape of Transactions : Understanding Firms’ Transactional Governance Structures in Six Latin American Countries (anglais)
This note summarizes findings from a new paper, which lays out a methodology to determine the types of mechanisms, be they the legal system, civil organizations, or shared business interest, that firms...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 152936 Date du document: 1 janvier 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Francis,David C.
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Mapping the landscape of transactions : the governance of business relations in Latin America (anglais)
To what extent do firms use trust, law, and third-parties to ensure fulfillment of agreements to transact? How do they combine these mechanisms to form transactional governance structures? How do answers...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8564 Date du document: 22 août 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Francis,David C.,Karalashvili,Nona,Murrell,Peter
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Do politically connected firms innovate, contributing to long-term economic growth ? (anglais)
This paper presents new evidence that cronyism reduces long-term economic growth by discouraging firms' innovation activities. The analysis is based on novel establishment survey data from The Arab Republic...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8502 Date du document: 29 juin 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Francis,David C.,Hussain,Sahar Sajjad,Schiffbauer,Marc Tobias
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Surviving firms of the Syrian Arab Republic : a rapid assessment (anglais)
This paper details the results from the first comprehensive survey of private firms across major urban areas in the Syrian Arab Republic -- including Aleppo, Homs, Hama, Latakia, and Damascus -- since...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8397 Date du document: 2 avril 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Salmon,Kinley Clemens,Assaf,Nabila,Francis,David C.
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The effect of the Swedish payroll tax cut for youths on firm profitability (anglais)
Payroll taxes in Sweden were reduced substantially for people ages 26 years or younger on July 1, 2007. The objective of this tax cut was to lower youth unemployment. The question of how gains from payroll...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7854 Date du document: 11 octobre 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Malm,Arvid,Eklund,Johan,Francis,David C.,Jiang,Nan
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Deepening without broadening ? jobs in Ghana's private sector (anglais)
Creating productive jobs is one of the greatest challenges in Ghana. This paper looks at job creation and its relationship with firm productivity and the quality of jobs among registered firms in the Ghanaian...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7835 Date du document: 27 septembre 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Francis,David C.,Honorati,Maddalena
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SMEs, age, and jobs : a review of the literature, metrics, and evidence (anglais)
The subject of which firms are the key employers—and which of these create or destroy jobs at a faster rate—is eminently important for academics and policy makers. The relative importance of small versus...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7493 Date du document: 13 novembre 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Aga,Gemechu A.,Francis,David C.,Rodriguez Meza,Jorge Luis
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As the market churns : estimates of firm exit and job loss using the World Bank's enterprise surveys (anglais)
This paper uses a unique data set of panel firms from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys in 47 economies, to provide estimates of the patterns of firm exit, and analyzes various firm characteristics and...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7218 Date du document: 23 mars 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Aga,Gemechu A.,Francis,David C.