Search Results - subject:"Developing Countries"

Regional Policy in the Southern African Development Community

Drewes, J. Ernst (contributor); … - 2024

This book analyses regional development policy or the lack thereof in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), which forms a key trading bloc on the African continent as well as the Global South. It explores the main attributes relevant to the formulation of regional policy in terms of...

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The Effects of Immigration in a Developing Country: Brazil in the Age of Mass Migration

Escamilla-Guerrero, David; Papadia, Andrea; Zimran, Ariell - 2024

informative of developing countries' experience because Brazil in this period was unique among major migrant destinations as a low …

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On the Main Determinants of Start-Up Investment in Developing Countries

Comincioli, Nicola; Panteghini, Paolo M.; Vergalli, Sergio - 2024

In this article we study start-up investments in developing countries. Using a representative firm, we wonder how … relevant are the effects of taxation and risk on new business activities. It is worth noting that developing countries are … be more volatile than in developed jurisdictions. Secondly, firms in developing countries can be affected by a higher …

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Measuring process innovation outputs and understanding their implications for firms and workers: Evidence from Pakistan.

Wadho, Waqar; Chaudhry, Azam - 2024

New processes significantly affect firms and workers; however, due to a lack of quantitative indicators, our understanding of the measures, determinants, and impacts of new processes remains limited. Drawing on unique data from Pakistan, we analyzed five different measures of process innovation...

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Deux sillons ensablés de "l'efficacité de l'aide"

Guillaumont, Patrick; Guillaumont Jeanneney, Sylviane - 2024

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Inequality and voting in fragile countries: Evidence from Mozambique

Bove, Margherita; Egger, Eva-Maria; Jones, Sam; … - 2024

The political consequences of economic inequality have been debated in academic and policy circles for centuries. The nature of this relationship seems highly dependent on specific contexts, with empirical studies showing mixed evidence on how economic inequality affects voting and other forms...

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Digital entrepreneurship landscapes in developing Asia: Insights from the Global Index of Digital Entrepreneurship Systems

Autio, Erkko; Jinjarak, Yothin; Komlósi, Éva; Park, … - 2024

Digitalization transforms how entrepreneurs pursue opportunities. To understand this transformative impact on entrepreneurship, we present the Global Index of Digital Entrepreneurship Systems (GIDES), a composite indicator developed to assess the performance of the digital entrepreneurial...

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A refinement of the relationship between central bank independence, inflation, and income inequality in developing countries

Fawaz, Fadi; Rahnamamoghadam, Masha - In: Journal of Central Banking Theory and Practice 13 (2024) 1, pp. 117-131

This paper analyzes the impact on income inequality of a set of variables usually considered in the growth literature as potential growth determinants. There is evidence to suggest that unemployment and inflation are positively associated with income inequality; except for countries with central...

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Measuring racial bias in employment services in Colombia

Duryea, Suzanne; Millán-Quijano, Jaime; Morrison, Judith; … - 2024

In this paper, we document de facto, implicit, and explicit racial biases within the public employment service in Colombia. By combining administrative data about job seekers and job openings with direct surveys to job counselors, including a Race Implicit Association Test, we compute different...

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The New South: Breaking with the past. West-South engagement in a changing world

Ishmael, Len - 2024

pushing an international system to support developing countries, and in 1961, it established the US Agency for International …

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