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Author workshop on firms and taxation using micro data from Uganda
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Local governance quality and law compliance: The case of Mozambican firmsIn sub-Saharan Africa, many micro and small enterprises do not (or at least only partially) comply with official rules and regulations...
Governance Transparency LawJournal Article
Informality and firm performance in MyanmarPart of Journal Special Issue What sustains informality
Firms Informality MyanmarWorking Paper
How have formal firms recovered from the pandemic?: Insights from survey and tax administrative data in ZambiaThis paper examines how formal firms have been impacted by and recovered from the pandemic by drawing on two distinct but complementary data sources...
Firms COVID-19 Tax administration dataWorking Paper
Spillovers from extractive industriesExtractive industries form an important part of the economy for many developing countries, but their impact on growth and welfare remains understudied...
Mining South Africa SpilloversWorking Paper
COVID-19 in Central America: effects of firm resilience and policy responses on employmentWith data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey, this paper examines how firm-level resilience capabilities interact with government support in the reduction of lay-offs among formal firms in Central America...
Capabilities Resilience COVID-19Working Paper
Contract clientelism: How infrastructure contracts fund vote-buyingWhere does the money come from to buy votes? We argue that an important source of funds for vote-buying comes from ‘contract clientelism’, or the provision of public contracts to private firms in exchange for campaign donations...
Contracts vote-buying ClientelismWorking Paper
Local governance quality and law compliance: The case of Mozambican firmsUsing panel data of manufacturing enterprises in Mozambique between 2012 and 2017, we investigate how changes in perceived quality of governance are related to firms’ law compliance...
Governance Transparency LawWorking Paper
The minimum wage and firm networks: Evidence from South AfricaThere is a large literature on the minimum wage focused on directly exposed firms and geographies...
Minimum wage Supply chains FirmsWorking Paper
Cash grants to manufacturers after Cyclone Idai: RCT evidence from MozambiqueIn March 2019, Cyclone Idai hit central Mozambique and caused widespread damage, including businesses in the enterprise sector...
Firms Manufacturing Natural disastersWorking Paper
Cyclone impacts on manufacturing firms in MozambiqueThis study investigates how manufacturing companies were affected by tropical Cyclone Idai, which struck Central Mozambique in March 2019...
Firms Natural disastersTechnical Note
Identifying foreign firms and South African multinational enterprises: CIT-IRP5 panel v4.0The identification of foreign firms and South African multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the CIT-IRP5 panel has proved to be a challenge for many researchers...
Multinational firms Foreign firms Tax dataWorking Paper
Informality and firm performance in MyanmarUsing a novel panel survey of enterprises in Myanmar, we compare the performance of manufacturing firms by three different informality definitions. The first is binary, based on whether firms pay taxes...
Firms Informality MyanmarWorking Paper
Partnership for inclusive growth: Can linkages with large firms spur the growth of SMEs in Tanzania?A recent strand of literature on small and medium enterprise (SME) development identifies linkages with large firms as some of the enablers of development and competitiveness. However, there is a dearth of empirical studies on the topic...
SMEs Firm linkages FirmsWorking Paper
Linkages and spillover effects of South African foreign direct investment in Botswana and KenyaIn recent decades, the impact of South African foreign direct investment in Africa has been captured by research and policy. This paper investigates linkages and spillover effects of South African foreign direct investment in Botswana and Kenya...
Foreign Direct Investment Economic linkages Spillover effectsBlog
Opening the vault: Data, research, and improved policymaking in South Africa
Policymakers often work in the dark, as they try to make real impact on people’s lives. If you don’t have good data, being worked on by good researchers, it can be hard to know whether efforts are truly making a difference...
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