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Kenya: Economic growth, labor market dynamics, and prospects for a demographic dividendFrom the book: Africa's Lions
Economic growth Labor Labor productivityWorking Paper
Gender differences in child investment behaviour among agricultural households: Evidence from the Lesotho Child Grants ProgrammeWe examine the impacts of an unconditional cash transfer in Lesotho using an experimental impact evaluation design. We find that the cash transfer led to different outcomes for girls and boys, overall favouring secondary school-aged girls...
Children Education LaborBlog
African Lions - Tapping the potential of Kenya's economic growth
From 2000-2014, like many other sub-Saharan African countries, Kenya experienced high growth, at an average of 4.37 percent...
Economic growth Labor Labor productivityWorking Paper
Affirmative action policies and the evolution of post-apartheid South Africa’s racial wage gapRacial wage inequality and discrimination have pervaded South African society for centuries. Apartheid legislation cemented these disparities by institutionalizing white job reservation and many other unfair practices...
Discrimination in employment Equality and inequality LaborWorking Paper
Job flows, worker flows, and churning in South AfricaIn this paper, worker and job flows are estimated using the IRP5 data from the South African Revenue Services...
Job satisfaction Labor Labor economicsJournal Article
Structural Transformation, Biased Technological Change and Employment in VietnamEmployment in Vietnam and elsewhere in Asia has grown more slowly than GDP over the last several decades. This means GDP per capita is rising...
Economic development Economic growth LaborWorking Paper
The African Lions: Kenya country case studyThis paper mainly analyses the drivers of economic growth in Kenya and the linkages to the labour market dynamics, with a focus on population growth, its structure, and the prospects of reaping a demographic dividend...
Economic growth Labor Labor productivityVideo
The Impact of Policies on InequalityConference on Inequality—Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies - Parallel 3.3
Inequality Measurement (Poverty) Foreign aidJournal Article
Priorities for Boosting Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence for MozambiquePart of Journal Special Issue Aid and Employment
LaborJournal Article
Is Small Beautiful? Small Enterprise, Aid, and Employment in AfricaPart of Journal Special Issue Aid and Employment
Economic assistance and foreign aid Labor Small businessJournal Article
Aid, Employment, and Poverty Reduction in AfricaPart of Journal Special Issue Aid and Employment
Economic assistance and foreign aid Labor PovertyJournal Article
Aid, Growth, and Employment in AfricaPart of Journal Special Issue Aid and Employment
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic growth LaborBlog
From the Editor's Desk (September-October 2015)
UNU-WIDER had a busy September. We celebrated our 30 th birthday with some 600 people at our three-day conference on ‘Mapping the Future of Development Economics’ here in Helsinki. It was a great occasion...
Agriculture Business enterprises Capital investmentsBlog
Economic Lessons from Recent Research for Achieving SDG8 This article is part of UNU’s “ 17 Days, 17 Goals ” series, featuring research and commentary in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit, 25-27 September 2015 in New York City...
Business enterprises Capital investments Economic assistance and foreign aidWorking Paper
Structural transformation, biased technological change, and employment in VietnamEmployment in Vietnam and elsewhere in Asia has grown more slowly than GDP over the last several decades. This means GDP per capita is rising...
Economic development Economic growth LaborBook Chapter
Informality, Growth and Development in AfricaFrom the book: Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics, Vol. 1...
Economic development Economic aspects (Households) Informal sector (Economics)