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Spillovers in ICT Adoption from Formal to Informal Firms : Evidence from Zambia

Jolevski, Filip; Nayyar, Gaurav; Pleninger, Regina; Yu, Shu - 2024

This paper examines spillovers in the use of digital technologies from formal to informal businesses by exploring differences in geographic proximity. Using a unique set of geocoded data from the 2019 World Bank Enterprise Surveys in Zambia, the findings indicate that closer geographic proximity...

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The Role of Firm Dynamics in Aggregate Productivity and Formal Job Flows in Zambia

Simbeye, Laban; Lungu, Eliya; Kumwenda, Andreya; Banda, Edna - 2024

Zambia's private sector must deliver quality jobs at scale to keep up with its expanding working age population, contribute to economic transformation, and reduce poverty. This entails both the creation of high-quality jobs and productivity improvement among existing jobs and firms. This paper...

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Do Men Really Have Greater Socio-Emotional Skills Than Women? : Evidence from Tanzanian Youth

Cassidy, Rachel; Das, Smita; Delavallade, Clara; … - 2024

Individuals' socio-emotional skills (SES), and their perceptions of their skill levels, matter for labor market outcomes and other welfare outcomes. Men appear to have higher levels of SES than women, but this gender gap is typically documented in self-reported measures. Few studies use measures...

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Measuring Social Sustainability : A Multidimensional Approach

Ballon Fernandez, Paola Marcela; Cuesta, José - 2024

While the concept of social sustainability is growing in salience, there is little consensus on how to measure it. This lack of an accepted measure makes it harder to monitor progress toward sustainable development goals, honor political commitments to leave no one behind, and design effective...

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Women at Work : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Urban Djibouti

Devoto, Florencia; Galasso, Emanuela; Beegle, Kathleen; … - 2024

In some developing countries, women's labor force participation remains persistently low. This gives rise to questions regarding what types of employment opportunities or interventions can draw women into work in such contexts. In this study in urban Djibouti, with restrictive gender norms and...

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Mortality Costs of and Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Cote D'ivoire

Donfouet, Hermann Pythagore Pierre; Gogoua, Jean-Noel … - 2024

Cote d'Ivoire, the largest economy in the West African Economic and Monetary Union, was hit by COVID-19, which claimed many lives. This paper estimates COVID-19 mortality costs over time using the value of a statistical life. Using a more conservative estimate of the value of a statistical life...

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Does Africa Need More Roads in the Digital Age? : Evidence of Complementarities in Infrastructure

Lebrand, Mathilde; Mongoue, Arcady; Pongou, Roland; … - 2024

This paper investigates whether the expansion of fast internet networks complements or substitutes for the development of roads to improve market access and create more and higher-skilled jobs in Africa. The paper combines the geographic locations of households and firms with the locations of...

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Responsibility Sharing and the Economic Participation of Refugees in Chad

Coulibaly, Mohamed Hamady; Hoogeveen, Johannes; … - 2024

The Global Compact on Refugees recognizes the importance of responsibility sharing for hosting, protecting, and assisting refugees, while emphasizing the potential of economic participation to reduce the cost of humanitarian assistance. This note explores the relative importance of aid in caring...

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Who did Covid-19 Hurt the Most in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Seuyong, Feraud Tchuisseu; Edochie, Ifeanyi; Newhouse, … - 2024

How did the economic crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic impact poor households in Sub-Saharan Africa This paper tackles this question by combining 73 High-Frequency Phone Surveys collected by national governments in 14 countries with older nationally representative surveys containing...

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Comparing Internally Displaced Persons with those Left Behind : Evidence from the Central African Republic

Lain, Jonathan; Hoogeveen, Johannes; Yama, Gervais … - 2024

Global poverty is increasingly becoming concentrated in conflict-affected settings. Therefore, assessing the welfare of those people displaced by conflict is of growing policy importance. Collecting and analyzing data on displaced people is challenging because sampling them is difficult,...

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