Book Chapter

From the book: Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics, Vol. 1.

• Business
• Capitalism
• Entrepreneurship

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Sustainability of External Development Finance

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic conditions
• International relations

Report

The survey on the School-to-Work Transitions of University Graduates in Mozambique aims to respond to the concerns of the Government of Mozambique and development partners with respect to youth employment in the country. The focus is on the...

• Employment
• Education
• Wages

Policy Brief

Before now, there has been no systematic study of the transition of university students as they finish their studies and enter the labour market. This Policy Brief summarises the findings of a baseline survey of such university students, who form the...

• Employment
• Education
• Wages

Working Paper

This paper frames the transition towards clean energies as a sequential process of instrument choice and instrument change. First, regulators decide how to initiate the transition away from fossil energies. Here, support policies for renewable...

• Environmental policy
• Management
• Renewable energy

Report

O Inquérito à Transição Ensino-Emprego dos Finalistas Universitários visa dar resposta às preocupações do Governo de Moçambique e parceiros de desenvolvimento sobre o emprego jovem no país. O foco é aqui colocado na transição dos jovens, da educação...

Working Paper

Using a specially designed survey instrument in combination with a representative sample of Vietnamese enterprises, we explore firm-level efficiency effects of corporate social responsibility. We find a positive relationship between adoption of...

• Business enterprises
• Corporate culture
• Manufacturing

Working Paper

Private consumption capabilities form only one facet of comprehensive living standards assessments, but they are an important facet whose measurement should be done well. Measurement is complex due to a multitude of methodological choices, which...

• Cost effectiveness
• Poverty
• Public utilities

Working Paper

The significance of commodity price instability for the economic development of commodity-exporting countries has been perhaps the dominant theme in the postwar literature on the "commodity problem". One of the contending postwar views of the...

• Keynesian economics
• Neoclassical school of economics
• Prices

Working Paper

The Nigerian power sector reform is necessitated by the chronic poor performance of the sector and has as its compass the 2005 Electric Power Sector Reform Act and the Roadmap for Power Sector Reform 2010. Implementing reform has resulted in...

• Political science
• Economic power
• Privatization

Working Paper

The way property rights affect land rental market behaviour is one of the key issues in development economics. In this paper we show the relationship between land use certificates and the compensation landlords receive when they lease out land to...

• Land use
• Land titling
• Gender

Working Paper

This paper analyses the dramatic spread of education and healthcare in Asia and also the large variations in that spread across and within countries over 50 years. Apart from differences in initial conditions and income levels, the nature of the...

• Healthcare
• Education
• State

Journal Special Issue

The benefits from the New Economy should accrue as improvements in productivity and economic growth. But while the use of information and communication technology (ICT) seems to have had a substantial impact on the performance of the United States...

• Economic development
• Information technology
• Productivity

Working Paper

• Economic growth
• Foreign exchange
• International economic relations

Working Paper

The mechanism and dynamics of the recent economic developments in Poland determine the mechanism and the implementation methods for adjustment programmes and stabilization policies. The syndrome of crisis phenomena in Poland is composed of three...

• Economic development
• Economic policy

Working Paper

Three changes in conditionality of loans are proposed in this study, in order to improve the relations between developing country borrowers and international lending agencies, and make the international cooperative effort at development and stability...

• Economic conditions
• Economic policy
• Foreign loans