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  • 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...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8155 Date du document: 31 juillet 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: O'Connell,Stephen A.,Mation,Lucas Ferreira,Bevilaqua Teixeira Basto,Joao,Dutz,Mark Andrew

  • 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...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8042 Date du document: 26 avril 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dutz,Mark Andrew,Mation,Lucas Ferreira,O'Connell,Stephen A.,Willig,Robert D.

  • Structural transformation in Africa : a historical view (anglais)

    This paper presents evidence suggesting that the relationship between income and economic structure is shifting over time, with countries across the income distribution uniformly increasing the share of...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7743 Date du document: 11 juillet 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Enache,Maria,Ghani,Syed Ejaz,O'Connell,Stephen A.

  • Can service be a growth escalator in low-income countries ? (anglais)

    Several high-level reports have raised the concern that low-income countries, especially in Africa, are experiencing premature de-industrialization. The concern is that they are growing without transforming...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6971 Date du document: 1 juillet 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ghani,Syed Ejaz,O'Connell,Stephen A.

  • Input usage and productivity in Indian manufacturing plants (anglais)

    This paper analyzes the scale and productivity consequences of varied input use in Indian manufacturing using detailed plant-level data. Counts of distinct material inputs are higher in urban settings...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6656 Date du document: 1 octobre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ghani,Syed Ejaz,Kerr,William Robert,O'Connell,Stephen A.

  • Friend or foe or family ? a tale of formal and informal plants in India (anglais)

    This paper examines the interaction between formal (organized) and informal (unorganized) plants in the manufacturing sector in India. How has the size and productivity of the plants in the organized sector...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6588 Date du document: 1 septembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ghani,Syed Ejaz,O'Connell,Stephen A.,Sharma, Gunjan

  • Female business ownership and informal sector persistence (anglais)

    The informal sector in India has been exceptionally persistent over the past two decades. Is this a bad thing? Not necessarily. This paper shows that a substantial share of the persistence in India's unorganized...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6612 Date du document: 1 septembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ghani,Syed Ejaz,Kerr,William Robert,O'Connell,Stephen A.

  • The exceptional persistence of India's unorganized sector (anglais)

    The transformation of India's unorganized sector is important to its modernization, growth, and attainment of regional economic equality. This paper documents several key facts about India's unorganized...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6454 Date du document: 1 mai 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ghani,Syed Ejaz,Kerr,William Robert,O'Connell,Stephen A.

  • Productivity, innovation and growth in Sri Lanka : an empirical investigation (anglais)

    This study investigates the impact of key business environment indicators on productivity, innovation, and growth in Sri Lanka through a cluster-level productivity analysis, a firm-level total factor productivity...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6354 Date du document: 1 février 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dutz,Mark Andrew,O'Connell,Stephen A.

  • Political reservations and women's entrepreneurship in India (anglais)

    This paper quantifies the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6307 Date du document: 1 janvier 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ghani,Syed Ejaz,Kerr,William Robert,O'Connell,Stephen A.

  • What makes cities more competitive ? spatial determinants of entrepreneurship in India (anglais)

    Policy makers in both developed and developing countries want to make cities more competitive, attract entreprepreneurs, boost economic growth, and promote job creation. The authors examine the spatial...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6198 Date du document: 1 septembre 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ghani,Syed Ejaz,Kerr,William Robert,O'Connell,Stephen A.

  • The spatial development of India (anglais)

    In the last two decades the Indian economy has been growing unabatedly, with memories of the Hindu rate of growth rapidly fading. But this unprecedented growth has also resulted in widening spatial disparities...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6060 Date du document: 1 mai 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Desmet,Klaus,Ghani,Syed Ejaz,O'Connell,Stephen A.,Rossi-Hansberg,Esteban

  • The macroeconomics of delayed exchange-rate unification : theory and evidence from Tanzania (anglais)

    Parallel exchange-rate markets have often been dismissed by authorities as a nuisance or as the domain of a small group of economic saboteurs. Using Tanzania as a case study, the authors argue instead...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2060 Date du document: 28 février 1999 Mode de publication: Auteur: Kaufmann,Daniel,O'Connell,Stephen A.

  • Single-equation estimation of the equilibrium real exchange rate (anglais)

    Estimating the degree of exchange-rate misalignment remains one of the most challenging empirical problems in an open economy. The basic problem is that the value of the real exchange rate is not observable...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1800 Date du document: 31 août 1997 Mode de publication: Auteur: Baffes,John,Elbadawi,Ibrahim Ahmed,O'Connell,Stephen A.

  • Parallel exchange rates in developing countries (anglais)

    Dual exchange rates and black markets for foreign exchange are common in developing countries, and a body of evidence is beginning to emerge on the effects that such parallel foreign exchange systems have...

    Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 14302 Date du document: 28 février 1995 Mode de publication: Auteur: Kiguel,Miguel Alberto,O'Connell,Stephen A.