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How does informal economic activity respond to increased financial inclusion? Does it become more entrepreneurial? Does access to new financing options change the gender configuration of informal economic activity and, if so, in what ways and what directions? We take advantage of nationwide data...
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. Implicit borrowing in trade finance allows financially constrained firms to bridge the financing gap, expand employment by 8 …
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transition of workers within different types of informal employment. Our results further indicate that both self-employed and …' transitions within the informal sector and between informal and formal employment. A binary logit model is applied to General … Household Survey panel data for the periods 2010/11, 2012/13, and 2015/16. We find that informal employment has the greatest …
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global south. The textile and clothing industry is the largest foreign exchange earner and the largest employment provider in … under which such a global policy could well raise labourers' income and generate more employment. …
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reductions in poverty were strongly related to improvements in earnings and employment indicators. Although the 2008 crisis …
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employment composition improved, the educational level of workers rose, the share of registered workers increased, and average …
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conditions were mixed. The unemployment rate fell, and the mix of employment by occupations, economic sector, and education … improved slightly. However, the employment mix by occupational position deteriorated, and the share of registered workers and …
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employment composition by occupation and position; a substantial fall in labour earnings; and no progress in reducing poverty …
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The Uruguayan story was one of declines in the early years of the 2000s in most indicators, followed by improvements in all of them. Economic growth was negative in the early years due to a severe economic crisis, positive and rapid thereafter except during the international crisis of 2008. Most...
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The financial inclusion effort achieved positive results, with the number of Mozambicans having access to banking services increasing considerably, particularly after 2011- 12. However, the economic and social impact was limited, considering that farm productivity has remained low and poverty...
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