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

Working Paper

• Agriculture
• Cooperative societies
• Economic conditions

Working Paper

This paper examines how the interaction of social trust and institutions, such as land administration, affects household economic decisions in Vietnam. Using a panel dataset of rural households from 2008 to 2014, we show that negative consequences of...

• Trust
• Agricultural industries
• Land rights

Working Paper

Rwanda is one of the countries with the best strategies for women empowerment and gender equality in Africa and globally. Nonetheless, some inequalities exist especially in education attainment. This study investigates the gender gaps in business...

• Gender
• Economic policy (Business enterprises)
• Productivity

Working Paper

Few non-western countries have reached the general prosperity of Western Europe and North America in the past two centuries. The core–periphery structure of the world economy created in the early decades of the Industrial Revolution has proved robust...

• State capacity
• Growth

Working Paper

This paper attempts to understand Asian Drama in the context of the development debates of its time, and in terms of the sensibilities that Gunnar Myrdal—the brilliant economic theorist and philosopher of knowledge, and Swedish politician—brought to...

• Elites
• Gunnar Myrdal

Working Paper

This chapter addresses the unrelenting pessimism in Asian Drama about Indonesia’s development prospects. This pessimism was based on two key realities: the poor level of governance demonstrated by the Sukarno regime (partly a heritage of Dutch...

• Governance
• Poverty
• Pro-poor

Working Paper

This paper aims to evaluate the impact of accessing agricultural extension on households’ agricultural profit. Results from pooled cross-sectional data show that each additional time of access is associated with a 15.5 per cent increase in...

• Agricultural extension
• Agriculture
• Fixed effects

Working Paper

The story of South Asia is a topsy-turvy one. Soon after independence from British rule, the region seemed to have a much better prospect than many other parts of the Third World; the prospects soon dimmed, however, as South Asia crawled while East...

• Growth
• Poverty
• Inequality

Working Paper

Recently, quantitative methods have been increasingly used in ethnicity research, which traditionally has relied mainly on qualitative methods. However, quantitative studies on ethnicity in Indonesia are scarce, even though the country has more than...

• Ethnicity
• Earnings inequality
• Regional characteristics

Working Paper

• Income
• Poverty
• Public welfare

Working Paper

• Equality and inequality
• Food security
• Life expectancy

Report

View the latest ECUAMOD country report here. This report documents ECUAMOD, the SOUTHMOD micrososimulation model developed for Ecuador. This work was carried out by the ISER in collaboration with the Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales and UNU...

• Taxes
• Benefits
• Microsimulation

Report

View the latest MOZMOD country report here. This report documents MOZMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Mozambique. This work was carried out by the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Mozambique in collaboration with the project partners in the...

• Fiscal policy
• Revenue
• Taxation

Report

View the latest TAZMOD country report here. This report documents TAZMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Tanzania. This work was carried out by University of Dar es Salaam in collaboration with the project partners in the scope of the SOUTHMOD...

• Income tax
• Taxation

Report

View the latest MicroZAMOD country report here. This report documents MicroZAMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Zambia. This work was carried out by Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis & Research (ZIPAR) in collaboration with the project partners...

• Revenue
• Taxation
• SOUTHMOD

Journal Article

This paper investigates progress in reducing the high level of racial stratification of occupations after apartheid in South Africa. Empirical analysis, using census microdata and Labour Force Surveys, does not provide compelling evidence of...

• Occupational segregation
• Stratification
• Low-paying