Documents et rapports
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Short-Term Impacts of Targeted Cash Grants and Business Development Services : Experimental Evidence from Entrepreneurs in Burkina Faso (anglais)
Most support programs targeted at small firms in low- and middle-income countries fail to generate transformative effects at a large scale due to poor targeting, too little flexibility, and the limited...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9877 Date du document: 9 décembre 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Grimm,Michael,Soubeiga,Sidiki,Weber,Michael
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Enabling Institutional Investment in Climate Smart Infrastructure: Invest4Climate Knowledge Series (anglais)
The world is not on track to address climate change. As countries move toward developing stimulus packages to stem the economic impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19), it will be vitally important to build the...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 151412 Date du document: 1 janvier 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Grimm,Michael,Boukerche,Sandrine
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A first step up the energy ladder ? low cost solar kits and household's welfare in Rural Rwanda (anglais)
More than 1.1 billion people in developing countries are lacking access to electricity. Based on the assumption that electricity is a prerequisite for human development, the United Nations has proclaimed...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7859 Date du document: 12 octobre 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Grimm,Michael,Munyehirwe,Anicet,Peters,Jorg,Sievert,Maximiliane
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Constrained firms, not subsistence activities : evidence on capital returns and accumulation in Peruvian microenterprises (anglais)
Authors investigate the size of returns to capital and the determinants of capital accumulation in microenterprises (MEs) in a developing country context. Marginal returns to capital are found to be well...
Type de document: Autre étude sur la protection sociale Numéro du rapport: 77928 Date du document: 1 mars 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gobel, Kristin,Grimm,Michael,Lay,Jann
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Kinship-ties and entrepreneurship in Western Africa (anglais)
Small entrepreneurs in poor countries achieve relatively high marginal returns to capital but show only low re-investment rates. The literature is rather inconclusive about the possible causes. The author...
Type de document: Autre étude sur la protection sociale Numéro du rapport: 77936 Date du document: 1 février 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Grimm,Michael,Gubert,Flore,Koriko, Ousman,Lay,Jann,Nordman,Christophe Jalil
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How much does utility access matter for the performance of micro and small enterprises? (anglais)
The empirical evidence of the economic benefits of different utilities such as electricity, telecommunications and water is mixed and, in the case of micro and small enterprises, relatively thin. This...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 77935 Date du document: 1 novembre 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Grimm,Michael,Hartwig,Renate Sieglinde,Lay,Jann
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Credit constrained in risky activities? : the determinants of capital stocks of micro and small firms in Western Africa (anglais)
Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) in developing countries are typically considered to be severely credit constrained. Additionally, high business risks may partly explain why capital stocks of MSEs remain...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 77923 Date du document: 1 mai 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Grimm,Michael,Lange, Simon,Lay,Jann
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Informal sector dynamics in times of fragile growth : the case of Madagascar (anglais)
This paper investigates the dynamics of the informal sector in Madagascar during a period of fragile growth. Overall, the behavior of informal firms in terms of earnings, employment and capital accumulation...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 77929 Date du document: 1 septembre 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Grimm,Michael,Lay,Jann,Roubaud,Francois,Vaillant,Julia
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Linking representative household models with household surveys for poverty analysis : a comparison of alternative methodologies (anglais)
The authors compare three approaches to linking representative-household macro models with micro household income data in terms of their implications for measuring the poverty and distributional effects...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3343 Date du document: 1 juin 2004 Auteur: Agenor,Pierre-Richard,Chen,Derek Hung Chiat,Grimm,Michael