Documents et rapports
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When Distance Drives Destination, Towns Can Stimulate Development (anglais)
While city migrants see their welfare increase much more than those moving to towns, many more rural-urban migrants end up in towns. This phenomenon, documented in detail in Kagera, Tanzania, begs the...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9622 Date du document: 12 avril 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: De Weerdt,Joachim,Christiaensen,Luc,Kanbur,Ravi
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Minimum Wages and Labor Supply in an Emerging Market : The Case of Mauritius (anglais)
This paper investigates the effect of multiple minimum wages, known as remuneration orders, on employment and working hours in Mauritius. Using data between 2004 and 2014, the analysis indicates that a...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8681 Date du document: 18 décembre 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Asmal,Zaakhir,Bhorat,Haroon Ismail,Kanbur,Ravi,Ranzani,Marco,Paci,Pierella
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Minimum Wages and Labor Supply in an Emerging Market : The Case of Mauritius (anglais)
This paper investigates the effect of multiple minimum wages, known as remuneration, on employment and working hours in Mauritius. Using data between 2004 and 2014, the analysis indicates that a 10 percent...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 133297 Date du document: 1 décembre 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Asmal,Zaakhir,Bhorat,Haroon Ismail,Kanbur,Ravi,Ranzani,Marco,Paci,Pierella
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Migrants, towns, poverty and jobs : insights from Tanzania (anglais)
For a long time, the urbanization and development discourse has coincided with a focus on economic growth and big cities. Yet, much of the world's new urbanization is taking place in smaller urban entities...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8340 Date du document: 14 février 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Christiaensen,Luc,De Weerdt,Joachim,Ingelaere,Bert Lodewijk M,Kanbur,Ravi
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Why secondary towns can be important for poverty reduction – a migrant’s perspective : Why secondary towns Can Be important for poverty reduction – a migrant’s perspective (anglais)
This paper develops the concept of ‘action space’ as the range of possible destinations to which a migrant can realistically move at a given point in time and, intimately linked to this, the set of possible...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 123464 Date du document: 13 février 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ingelaere,Bert Lodewijk M,Christiaensen,Luc,De Weerdt,Joachim,Kanbur,Ravi
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Why secondary towns can be important for poverty reduction -- a migrant's perspective (anglais)
This paper develops the concept of "action space" as the range of possible destinations to which a migrant can realistically move at a given point in time and, intimately linked to this, the set of possible...
Numéro du rapport: WPS8193 Date du document: 13 septembre 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ingelaere,Bert Lodewijk M,Christiaensen,Luc,De Weerdt,Joachim,Kanbur,Ravi
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Where to create jobs to reduce poverty : cities or towns ? (anglais)
Should public investment be targeted to big cities or to small towns, if the objective is to minimize national poverty? To answer this policy question, this paper extends the basic Todaro-type model of...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8069 Date du document: 22 mai 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Christiaensen,Luc,De Weerdt,Joachim,Kanbur,Ravi
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Where to create jobs : cities or towns? (anglais)
Should public investment be targeted to big cities or to small towns, if the objective is to minimize national poverty? To answer this policy question the authors extend the basic Todaro-type model of...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 116317 Date du document: 21 avril 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Christiaensen,Luc,De Weerdt,Joachim,Kanbur,Ravi
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Where to create jobs : cities or towns? (anglais)
Should public investment be targeted to big cities or to small towns, if the objective is to minimize national poverty? To answer this policy question we extend the basic Todaro-type model of rural-urban...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 115360 Date du document: 21 avril 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Christiaensen,Luc,De Weerdt,Joachim,Kanbur,Ravi
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Minimum wages in Sub-Saharan Africa : a primer (anglais)
The fraction of workers currently covered by minimum wages in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is small, but as formality and urbanization increase, wage regulation will become increasingly relevant. In this analysis...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 129208 Date du document: 1 janvier 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bhorat,Haroon Ismail,Kanbur,Ravi,Stanwix,Benjamin
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Secondary towns and poverty reduction : refocusing the urbanization agenda (anglais)
This review is framed around the exploration of a central hypothesis: A shift in public investment toward secondary towns from big cities will improve poverty reduction performance. Of course the hypothesis...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7895 Date du document: 23 novembre 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Christiaensen,Luc,Kanbur,Ravi
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Inequality of opportunity : the new motherhood and apple pie? (anglais)
The recent paper by Garcia-Gomez et al. (2014) in this journal is part of a rapidly growing industry aiming to quantify, and hence give some policy teeth to, the concept of inequality of opportunity. The...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 100219 Date du document: 29 juin 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Wagstaffa, Adam,Kanbur,Ravi
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How useful is inequality of opportunity as a policy construct ? (anglais)
The academic literature on equality of opportunity has burgeoned. The concepts and measures have begun to be used by policy institutions, including in specific sectors such as health and education. It...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6980 Date du document: 1 juillet 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kanbur,Ravi,Wagstaff, Adam
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Urbanization, gender, and business creation in the informal sector in India (anglais)
This economic premise examines the intersection of four important development themes: urbanization, agglomeration, gender, and informality. Although urbanization has continued at a rapid pace, formalization...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 87096 Date du document: 1 avril 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ghani,Syed Ejaz,Kanbur,Ravi,O'Connell Stephen D.
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Regulation and noncompliance : magnitudes and patterns for India's factories act (anglais)
Noncompliance with regulations by enterprises is said to be rife in developing countries. Yet there is limited systematic evidence of the magnitude of noncompliance at the enterprise level. Making innovative...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6755 Date du document: 1 janvier 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Chatterjee,Urmila,Kanbur,Ravi
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Regulation and non-compliance : magnitudes and patterns for India's Factories Act (anglais)
Non-compliance with regulations by enterprises is said to be rife in developing countries. Yet there is limited systematic evidence of the magnitude of non-compliance at the enterprise level. Making innovative...
Type de document: Autre étude sur la protection sociale Numéro du rapport: 83767 Date du document: 9 décembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Chatterjee,Urmila,Kanbur,Ravi
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Urbanization and (in) formalization (anglais)
Inexorable urbanization and formalization have been the expectations in development discourse. Indeed, measures of urbanization and formalization have been provided and used as indicators of development...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 84258 Date du document: 1 novembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ghani,Syed Ejaz,Kanbur,Ravi
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Urbanization and agglomeration benefits : gender differentiated impacts on enterprise creation in India's informal sector (anglais)
This paper presents an exploration at the intersection of four important themes in the current development discourse: urbanization, agglomeration benefits, gender and informality. Focusing on the important...
Numéro du rapport: WPS6553 Date du document: 1 août 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ghani,Syed Ejaz,Kanbur,Ravi,O'Connell,Stephen Daniel
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Social protection, poverty and the post-2015 agenda (anglais)
Social protection is absent from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and only recently has gained some prominence in the post-2015 discourse. In the past quarter century, however, rising inequality...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6469 Date du document: 1 mai 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fiszbein,Ariel,Kanbur,Ravi,Yemtsov,Ruslan G.
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Urbanization and (in)formalization (anglais)
Two of the great stylized predictions of development theory, and two of the great expectations of policy makers as indicators of progress in development, are inexorable urbanization and inexorable formalization...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6374 Date du document: 1 février 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ghani,Syed Ejaz,Kanbur,Ravi