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Emerging Economies' versus Advanced Countries' Investment Impact in Africa

Ezemenari, Kenechukwu Maria; Tiruneh, Esubalew Alehegn; … - 2016

This paper provides evidence on the labor productivity growth and employment impacts of foreign direct investment in selected countries in Africa over the years 2001-2012. It uses data from five emerging economies (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) and advanced countries (Canada,...

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Agro-Manufactured Export Prices, Wages and Unemployment

Porto, Guido G. - 2012

This paper estimates the impacts of world agricultural trade liberalization on wages, employment and unemployment in … Argentina, a country with positive net agricultural exports and high unemployment rates. In the estimation of these wage and … unemployment responses, the empirical model allows for individual labor supply responses and for adjustment costs in labor demand …

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Stunted Growth : Why Don't African Firms Create More Jobs?

Iacovone, Leonardo; Ramachandran, Vijaya; Schmidt, Martin B. - 2014

Many countries in Africa suffer high rates of underemployment or low rates of productive employment; many also anticipate large numbers of people to enter the workforce in the near future. This paper asks the question: Are African firms creating fewer jobs than those located elsewhere? And, if...

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Immigrant versus Natives? Displacement and Job Creation

Özden, Çağlar; Wagner, Mathis - 2014

The impact of immigration on native workers is driven by two countervailing forces: the degree of substitutability between natives and immigrants, and the increased demand for native workers as immigrants reduce the cost of production and output expands. The literature so far has focused on the...

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Sectoral Productivity Gaps and Aggregate Productivity

Sinha, Rishabh - 2016

This paper examines the role of changes in sectoral productivity gaps over time in accounting for growth realized by countries over the past few decades. To quantify the productivity impact of the sectoral gaps, a simple model of resource allocation is developed in which the gaps arise due to...

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China's Pattern of Growth : Moving to Sustainability and Reducing Inequality

Kuijs, Louis; Wang, Tao - 2012

The authors study the sources and pattern of China's impressive economic growth over the past 25 years and show that key issues currently of concern to policymakers-widening inequality, rural poverty, and resource intensity-are to a large extent rooted in China's growth strategy, and resolving...

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Productivity Growth in Europe

Dall'Olio, Andrea; Iootty, Mariana; Kanehira, Naoto - 2013

This paper tests whether structural or firm-specific characteristics contributed more to (labor) productivity growth in the European Union between 2003 and 2008. It combines the Amadeus firm-level data on productivity and firm characteristics with country-level data describing regulatory...

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Pyramid Capitalism : Political Connections, Regulation, and Firm Productivity in Egypt

Diwan, Ishac; Keefer, Philip; Schiffbauer, Marc - 2015

This paper uses an original database of 469 politically connected firms under the Mubarak regime in Egypt to explore the economic effects of close state-business relations. Previous research has shown that political connections are lucrative. The paper addresses several questions raised by this...

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Leveraging the Potential of the Services Sector to Support Accelerated Growth in Senegal

Cinyabuguma, Matthias M.; Ndoye, Djibril; Taiwo, Olumide - 2017

Services play a major role in the Senegalese economy, accounting for 66 percent of economic activity and contributing nearly three-quarters of gross domestic product growth between 2006 and 2013. During the period, the private sector contributed 71 percent of services and accounted for 84...

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SME Contributions to Employment, Job Creation, and Growth in the Arab World

Nasr, Sahar; Rostom, Ahmed - 2014

Recent economic and political developments have highlighted a challenge shared across the Arab region of generating employment, promoting inclusive growth, and improving competitiveness. In the short run, weakened macroeconomic fundamentals in the developing economies of the Middle East and...

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