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Bridging the mobile digital divide in Sub-Saharan Africa : costing under demographic change and urbanization

Alper, C. Emre; Miktus, Michal - 2019

Digital connectivity, including through the modern cellular network technologies, is expected to play a key role for the Future of Work in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). We estimate the cost of introducing a full-scale 4G network by 2025 in SSA and an operable 5G network by 2040. We adapt the costing...

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Treatment of Mobile Phone Licences in the National Accounts

Mæhle, Nils Øyvind - 2001

The treatment of license payments in the national accounts has become increasingly important in recent years; with mobile phone licenses being auctioned for substantial values in several countries. Because the text of the System of National Accounts 1993 does not provide specific guidance on...

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COVID-19 pandemic : asymmetric effects across gender and age

Caselli, Francesca; Grigoli, Francesco; Sandri, Damiano; … - 2020

Lockdowns and voluntary social distancing led to significant reduction in people's mobility. Yet, there is scant … evidence on the heterogeneous effects across segments of the population. Using unique mobility indicators based on anonymized … mobility of women and younger cohorts. Younger people also experienced a sharper drop in mobility in response to rising COVID …

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Are African Households Heterogeneous Agents? : Stylized Facts on Patterns of Consumption, Employment, Income and Earnings for Macroeconomic Modelers

Fox, Louise - 2015

This paper reviews the evidence on how households in Sub-Saharan Africa segment along consumption, income and earning dimensions relevant for quantitative macroeconomic policy models which incorporate heterogeneity. Key findings include the importance of home-grown food in the income and...

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Are African households heterogeneous agents? : stylized facts on patterns of consumption, employment, income and earnings for macroeconomic modelers

Fox, Louise - 2015

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China’s labor market in the “new normal”

Lam, W. Raphael; Liu, Xiaoguang; Schipke, Alfred - 2015

As China implements reforms under the "new normal," maintaining stability in the labor market is a priority. The country's demography and labor dynamics are changing, after benefitting in past decades from ample cheap labor. So far, the labor market appears to be resilient, even as growth slows,...

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Protecting lives and livelihoods with early and tight lockdowns

Caselli, Francesca; Grigoli, Francesco; Lian, Weicheng; … - 2020

Using high-frequency proxies for economic activity over a large sample of countries, we show that the economic crisis during the first seven months of the COVID-19 pandemic was only partly due to government lockdowns. Economic activity also contracted because of voluntary social distancing in...

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The great divide : regional inequality and fiscal policy

Gbohoui, William; Lam, W. Raphael; Lledó, Victor D. - 2019

regions. The rise in inequality is related to declining incentives for interregional labor mobility, especially for poor …

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Quality, Trade, and Exchange Rate Pass-Through

Chen, Natalie - 2014

for higher quality goods. We test the proposed theory using a highly disaggregated Argentinean firm-level wine export …

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Public Investment, Public Finance, and Growth : The Impact of Distortionary Taxation, Recurrent Costs, and Incomplete Appropriability

Adam, Christopher S. - 2014

Effective public investment requires governments to address the "recurrent cost problem" to ensure operations and maintenance (O&M) expenditures are sufficient to sustain the flow of productive public capital services to private factors of production. Building on the model of Buffie et al...

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