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Leapfrogging into the unknown : the future of structural change in the developing world

Schlogl, Lukas - 2020

This paper traces a set of major trends and future scenarios in global structural change. It argues that across multiple domains of change, developing economies are facing novel constellations of lateness and prematurity in technological and economic development. The paper explores these novel...

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Mobile internet and income improvement : evidence from Viet Nam

Trang Thi Pham - 2023

New developments of existing technologies over time have led to emergent patterns of technology adoption and, accordingly, changing impacts on economy and society. Focusing on the arrival of mobile internet in the early 2010s in developing countries, this paperidentifiessignificant positive...

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Making agricultural value chains more inclusive through technology and innovation

Das Nair, Reena; Landani, Namhla - 2020

Some entry barriers in agricultural and agro-processing value chains, particularly for smallholder farmers and small/medium-sized processors, can be overcome with innovation and technology adoption. Technologies and innovation in these sectors have been both radical and incremental, ranging...

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Ethiopia : an agrarian economy in transition

Seid, Yared; Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum; Ali, Seid Nuru - 2015

interventions in the agriculture sector have made important contributions to GDP growth. This growth has been accompanied by a … structural transformation that Ethiopia has shown in the last decade, including a continuous decline in the role of agriculture … and rise in that of services, have led to reallocation of jobs and labour from low-productivity agriculture to more …

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Foreign aid for capacity-building to address climate change : insights and applications

Victor, David G. - 2013

The paper examines the role of foreign aid in building capacity to address climate change. While the experience with this topic is relatively recent and not yet extensive, analogous questions have arisen in many other areas of foreign aid. It is likely that climate change aid programmes work...

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Industries without smokestacks : telecommunication and ICT-based services trade

Frischtak, Cláudio R. - 2017

This paper provides a basic understanding of the nature of emerging key information and communication technologies, and establishes the distance of countries from high-quality access to the internet - the necessary threshold one needs to cross in order to make use of such technologies. The paper...

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The tax elasticity of formal work in African countries

McKay, Andrew D.; Pirttilä, Jukka; Schimanski, Caroline - 2019

A key policy problem in most developing countries is the size of the informal sector and its persistence over time. In need to increase their tax revenues, policy makers face a trade-off between decreasing tax rates (making formalizing potentially more attractive) and alternatively raising tax...

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Employer power and employment in developing countries

Chau, Nancy H.; Kanbur, Ravi; Soundararajan, Vidhya - 2022

The issue of employer power is underemphasized in the development literature. The default model is usually one of competitive labour markets. This assumption matters for analysis and policy prescription. There is growing evidence that the competitive labour markets assumption is not valid for...

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Separating employment effects into job destruction and job creation : evidence from a large minimum wage increase in the agricultural sector using administrative tax data

Piek, Marlies; Fintel, Dieter von; Kirsten, Johann F. - 2020

This paper presents new evidence on the employment effects of a large increase in agricultural minimum wages in South Africa using anonymized tax data. We add to the minimum wage literature by differentiating employment effects resulting from the destruction of existing jobs and from the slower...

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The role of skills and tasks in changing employment trends and income inequality in Chile

Zapata-Román, Gabriela - 2021

Using decomposition methods, we analyse the role of the changing nature of work in explaining changes in employment, wage inequality, and job polarization in Chile from 1992 to 2017. Changes in occupational structure confirm a displacement of workers from low-skill occupations towards jobs...

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