Documents et rapports
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Informality and the Life Cycle of Plants (anglais)
This paper documents the life cycle of formal and informal plants using five waves of the Mexican establishment census. Formal plants begin operations with three times more workers than informal plants...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11022 Date du document: 8 janvier 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Sarikaya,Furkan,Tamkoc, Nazim,Torres Coronado, Jesica
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Informality in Indonesia: Levels, Trends, and Features (anglais)
Informality is a multidimensional development challenge with features that potentially differ across workers, firms, and countries. This paper first briefly summarizes the literature, discusses the multiple...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10586 Date du document: 6 octobre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hapsari,Indira Maulani,Shu Yu,Pape,Utz Johann,Mansour,Wael
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Does Informality Depress Investments and Job Recovery ? Firm-Level Evidence from the COVID-19 Crisis in South Asia (anglais)
Using three rounds of the World Bank's Business Pulse Surveys in South Asia, this paper quantifies the relationship between informality and firms' investment and employment decisions. Accounting for multidimensionality...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10580 Date du document: 3 octobre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Grover,Arti Goswami,Pereira Lopez,Mariana De La Paz
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Do Shocks Perpetuate Disparities within and across Informal Firms ? Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic in South Asia (anglais)
Using three rounds of data from the Business Pulse Survey in South Asia, this paper studies the differential effects of the COVID-19 shock on informal firms. It also captures heterogeneity within informal...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10579 Date du document: 2 octobre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Grover,Arti Goswami,Pereira Lopez,Mariana De La Paz
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Kenya - Second Kenya Informal Settlements Improvement Project : Updated Environment and Social Impact Assessment Report for the Infrastructures Improvement Works in Selected Informal Settlements in Kisumu County (anglais)
The development objective of the Second Phase of the Informal Settlements Improvement Project for Kenya is to enhance access to basic services and tenure security of residents in participating urban informal...
Type de document: Évaluation environnementale Numéro du rapport: SFG7962 Date du document: 1 septembre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Borrowing Agency
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Digital Technology Uses among Microenterprises : Why Is Productive Use So Low across Sub-Saharan Africa ? (anglais)
This paper explores the use of digital technologies, their association with performance outcomes, and the main constraints to greater use among microenterprises. The study uses a sample of more than 3,300...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10280 Date du document: 24 janvier 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Atiyas,Izak,Dutz,Mark Andrew
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Understanding Informality : Comprehensive Business-Level Data and Descriptive Findings (anglais)
This paper introduces and provides a descriptive analysis of data from more than 15,000 detailed interviews of representative samples of informal businesses operating in 24 cities across seven countries...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10208 Date du document: 18 octobre 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Adam Aberra,Gemechu Ayana Aga,Filip Jolevski,Nona Karalashvili
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Informal Microenterprises in Senegal : Performance Outcomes and Possible Avenues to Boost Productivity and Jobs (anglais)
This paper explores differences and similarities across formal and informal microenterprises in Senegal. It uses a new national sample of more than 500 firms, of which two-thirds are informal and over...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10111 Date du document: 29 juin 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Atiyas,Izak,Dutz,Mark Andrew
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The Gender Labor Productivity Gap across Informal Firms (anglais)
This study uncovers a gender labor productivity gap among informal firms in 14 developing economies. The results show that labor productivity is approximately 15.2 percent (or 0.165 log point) lower among...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10011 Date du document: 20 avril 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Islam,Asif Mohammed,Amin,Mohammad