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  • The development impact of a best practice seasonal worker policy (anglais)

    Seasonal migration programs are widely used around the world, yet there is little evidence as to their development impacts. A multiyear prospective evaluation of New Zealand’s Recognised Seasonal Employer...

    Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 94647 Date du document: 1 mai 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gibson, John,Mckenzie,David J.

  • The risks of innovation : are innovating firms less likely to die? (anglais)

    While innovation matters for competitiveness it may expose firms to survival risks. Using plant product data for Chile and discrete-time hazard models we show that innovating plants have a lower hazard...

    Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 94648 Date du document: 19 janvier 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fernandes,Ana Margarida,Paunov,Caroline

  • Do crises catalyze creative destruction? : firm-level evidence from Indonesia (anglais)

    Using Indonesian manufacturing census data (1991-2001), this paper rejects the hypothesis that the East Asian crisis unequivocally improved the reallocative process. The correlation between productivity...

    Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 84964 Date du document: 1 décembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hallward-Driemeier,Mary C.,Rijkers,Bob

  • The economics of consanguineous marriages (anglais)

    This paper provides an economic rationale for the practice of consanguineous marriages observed in parts of the developing world. In a model of incomplete marriage markets, dowries are viewed as ex ante...

    Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 86265 Date du document: 1 juillet 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Do,Quy-Toan,Iyer, Sriya,Joshi,Shareen

  • Gender bias in Intrahousehold allocation : evidence from an unintentional experiment (anglais)

    We use data from a Brazilian social program to investigate the existence of gender bias in intrahousehold allocations of resources. The program makes cash transfers to mothers and pregnant women in poor...

    Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 94662 Date du document: 1 mai 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Braido, Luis H.,Olinto,Pedro,Perrone, Helena

  • Weakly relative poverty (anglais)

    Prevailing measures of relative poverty are unchanged when all incomes grow or contract by the same proportion. This property stems from seemingly implausible assumptions about the disutility of relative...

    Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 94669 Date du document: 1 novembre 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Chen,Shaohua,Ravallion,Martin

  • Multilateral debt relief through the eyes of financial markets (anglais)

    This paper conducts an event study of the impact of multilateral debt relief initiatives announcements on the stock prices of South African companies with subsidiaries in countries benefited by these initiatives...

    Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 94668 Date du document: 1 novembre 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Raddatz Kiefer,Claudio Enrique

  • Migration and economic mobility in Tanzania : evidence from a tracking survey (anglais)

    This study explores to what extent migration has contributed to improved living standards of individuals in Tanzania. Using a thirteen year panel survey, we find that migration between 1991 and 2004 added...

    Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 94670 Date du document: 1 août 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Beegle,Kathleen G.,Dercon,Stefan,De Weerdt,Joachim

  • Aggregate income shocks and infant mortality in the developing world (anglais)

    Health and income are strongly correlated both within and across countries, yet the extent to which improvements in income have a causal effect on health status remains controversial. The authors investigate...

    Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 94667 Date du document: 1 août 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Baird,Sarah Jane,Friedman,Jed,Schady,Norbert Rudiger

  • Export diversification : what’s behind the hump? (anglais)

    The paper explores the evolution of export diversification patterns along the economic development path. Using a large database with 156 countries over 19 years at the HS6 level of disaggregation (4,991...

    Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 94665 Date du document: 1 mai 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cadot,Olivier,Carrere,Celine,Strauss-Kahn,Vanessa

  • Good, bad, and ugly colonial activities : do they matter for economic development? (anglais)

    Levels of development vary widely within countries in the Americas. We argue that part of this variation has its roots in the colonial era, when colonizers engaged in different economic activities in different...

    Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 94663 Date du document: 29 septembre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bruhn,Miriam,Gallego,Francisco Antonio

  • Productivity change and dynamic comparative advantage (anglais)

    This paper proposes a simple decomposition of the widely used DRC measure of international competitiveness into three distinct elements: (1) changes in international prices, (2) changes in production techniques...

    Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: REP395 Date du document: 31 mai 1986 Mode de publication: Auteur: Nishimizu,Mieko,Page, John M. Jr.

  • Comparative advantage in manufactured goods : a re-appraisal (anglais)

    Japanese input coefficients are used to investigate the pattern of comparative advantage in the exportation of manufactured products in a cross-country framework. Estimates are made for the imports of...

    Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: REP390 Date du document: 31 mai 1986 Mode de publication: Auteur: Balassa, Bela

  • Productivity change and dynamic comparative advantage (anglais)

    This paper proposes a simple decomposition of the widely used DRC measure of international competitiveness into three distinct elements: (1) changes in international prices, (2) changes in production techniques...

    Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: REP395 Date du document: 1 mai 1986 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Nishimizu,Mieko,Page, John M. Jr.