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Mining's contribution to low- and middle-income economiesFrom the book: Extractive Industries
Mining Development Tax revenueWorking Paper
Identifying monetary policy rules in South Africa with inflation expectations and unemploymentThis paper investigates whether a Taylor rule accurately describes the South African Reserve Bank’s reaction function in setting interest rates using quarterly data, covering the period since inflation targeting was formally adopted in 2000...
Employment Labour Monetary policyWorking Paper
Gender inequality in employment in MozambiqueWe investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding non-subsistence sector of the economy in Mozambique, a country still characterized by a large subsistence agricultural sector...
Gender Employment EducationWorking Paper
The resettlement of Vietnamese refugees across Canada over three decadesWelcoming 60,000 Southeast Asian refugees in the 1979–80 period has become a celebrated part of Canada’s history, but the eventual integration of these refugees into Canadian society has received insufficient attention...
Canada Earnings Economic integrationPolicy Brief
Working Paper
Mining’s contribution to low- and middle-income economiesIn several low- and middle-income countries with important extractive sectors, gross national income has developed favourably. Africa has benefitted most, particularly West Africa...
Mining Development Tax revenueBook
Growth, Employment, and Poverty in Latin AmericaThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations...
Economic growth Employment PovertyWorking Paper
The effects of minimum wage hikes on employment and wages in Viet Nam’s micro, small, and medium enterprisesVery little is known about the extent to which wage and employment offsetting behaviours change by firm size to mitigate the detrimental effects of minimum wage regulation...
Minimum wage Employment WagesBook
Africa's Lions: Growth Traps and Opportunities for Six African EconomiesExamining the economic forces that will shape Africa’s future Africa’s Lions examines the economic growth experiences of six fast-growing and/or economically dominant African countries...
Growth Employment infrastructureResearch uptake
Learning to Compete (L2C): Accelerating Industrial Development in AfricaLearning to compete (L2C) is collaborative research project between UNU-WIDER, the African Development Bank, and the Brookings Institution. The project aims to answer the question: why is there so little industry in Africa? Industry—including modern...
Trade Competitiveness Industrial policyNews
Aid in a Post-2015 WorldNow out the ReCom - Research and Communication on Foreign Aid programme summary which outlines 15 key findings relevant to the post-2015 agenda.
Foreign aid Social sectors Gender equalityProject
Jobs, poverty and structural change in Africa
Theme: Transformation
Trade Competitiveness Industrial policyWorkshop
Unemployment in Tunisia: What do we know? Where do we go?The African Development Bank , the African Development Institute and UNU-WIDER, in collaboration with the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and the Ministry of Employment and Vocational Training, organize a workshop on the subject...
