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Urbanization without structural transformation in Lagos, Nigeria

Folawewo, Abiodun Oluwole - 2024

capacity for labour employment and productivity growth. It is also found that the 'narrow-concentrated' pattern of political …

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New patterns of structural change and effects on inclusive development : a case study of South Africa and Brazil

Greenstein, Joshua - 2015

This study explores the question of structural change and inclusive development in South Africa and Brazil. Using Census data from the two countries, the analysis combines a household level multidimensional indicator of well-being with the applications of growth incidence curves and a sectoral...

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The theory and practice of agriculture, growth, and development in Africa

Badiane, Ousmane; Makombe, Tsitsi - 2014

performance, and a productivity-reducing structural transformation, characterized by an increasing concentration of low … productivity labour in the informal service sector. The paper suggests a move away from the dual-economy to a three … require accelerated agricultural productivity growth, a modernized informal service sector, and effective industrialization …

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Agglomeration and productivity in South Africa : evidence from firm-level data

Amusa, Hammed Adedeji; Wabiri, Njeri; Fadiran, David … - 2019

Using comprehensive, anonymized tax administrative data for the 2008-14 period, we examine firm-level productivity in … South Africa. Measures of firm-level productivity are included in a spatial autoregressive model that assesses spillovers … from total factor productivity originating from agglomeration economies and the spatial diffusion of productivity shocks …

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The political economy of structural transformation in African cities : insights from the Deals and Development framework

Sen, Kunal - 2024

An important stylized fact about African economic development is the phenomenon of urbanization without structural transformation. This paper provides a political economy analysis of the lack of structural transformation in African cities, drawing on the Deals and Development framework. It...

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Can cities or towns drive African development? : economy-wide analysis for Ethiopia and Uganda

Dorosh, Paul; Thurlow, James - 2012

Rapid urbanization is an important characteristic of African development and yet the structural transformation debate focuses on agriculture's relative merits without also considering the benefits from urban agglomeration. As a result, African governments are often provided conflicting...

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Policy process and food price crisis : a framework for analysis and lessons from country studies

Babu, Suresh Chandra - 2013

During the recent food crisis, developing countries responded with a wide variety of policy responses to protect their population. Understanding the policy-making process in developing countries is important to know why such policy responses are made and how various actors and players shape up...

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How important are management practices for the productivity of small and medium enterprises?

Demenet, Axel; Hoang, Quynh - 2018

managerial capital, combining both practices and attitudes, and link it with consistent estimates of firm-level productivity and … mark-up. Even though bias may still affect the estimation of the overall influence of managerial capital on productivity …

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Do tax administrative interventions targeted at small businesses improve tax compliance and revenue collection? : evidence from Ugandan administrative tax data

Jouste, Maria; Nalukwago, Milly I.; Waiswa, Ronald - 2021

This paper conducts an impact evaluation of the effects of two tax administration interventions-a taxpayer register expansion and education programme, and a new electronic filing system for presumptive tax-on the number of small business taxpayers and presumptive tax revenues in Uganda. Using a...

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An assessment of presumptive tax in Uganda : evaluating the 2020 reform and four alternative reform scenarios using UGAMOD, a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Uganda

Waiswa, Ronald; Lastunen, Jesse; Wright, Gemma; Noble, … - 2021

Presumptive tax, a final tax on business income, was introduced in Uganda in 1997. The latest reform to the regime in July 2020 sought to make the system more progressive, simpler and fairer to small firms. In this work, we evaluate the reform, focusing on its revenue implications based on...

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