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

Journal Article

A considerable body of research suggests that horizontal inequality between ethnic groups has major socioeconomic implications, in particular for peace and economic development. Much of this work focuses on horizontal inequality as an independent...

• Group-based inequality
• Horizontal inequality
• Ethnic group

Journal Article

Implicit associations and biases are carried without awareness or conscious direction, yet there is reason to believe they may be influenced by social pressures. In this paper, I study social pressure as a motive to give, as well as giving itself...

• Economic conditions
• Field experiment

Working Paper

How have economic development, employment, and labour markets in Asian countries interacted since the publication of Myrdal’s Asian Drama? Myrdal rejected, the western approach to and definition of employment and emphasized the role of ‘informal’...

• Labour
• Employment
• Economic growth

Working Paper

We analyse the multidimensional wellbeing of children aged 0–17 in Mozambique and find that 46.3 per cent can be considered multidimensionally poor. A substantial divide exists between urban and rural areas and between northern and southern provinces...

• Multidimensional poverty
• Children
• Child wellbeing

Working Paper

This paper reviews the main methodological innovations in Asian Drama. It considers whether Myrdal’s perspectives have been adopted by development analysts, and where fresh thinking is needed, particularly in the light of changes occurring in the...

• Gunnar Myrdal
• Institutions

Journal Special Issue

A considerable body of research suggests that horizontal inequality between ethnic groups has major socioeconomic implications, in particular for peace and economic development. Much of this work focuses on horizontal inequality as an independent...

• Group-based inequality
• Horizontal inequality
• Ethnic group

Working Paper

This paper analyses policy options to promote local content in Uganda as it transitions into an oil-producing country. It contends that productive linkages between oil and gas exporters and domestic suppliers in a range of ‘connected’ goods and...

• Local content
• Oil and gas
• Tax administration data

Working Paper

Using a comparative frame that draws on the variation of developmental trajectories in Asia from Northeast Asia to China to Southeast Asia and to India, this paper explores the changing role of the state in these countries and the contributions that...

• State
• Democracy
• Redistribution

Working Paper

In recent years, Mozambique has made international headlines for the significant hydrocarbon deposits found offshore. These have increased the country’s extractive resource endowments, in addition to its mining and onshore natural gas sector. It is...

• Natural resource management
• Extractive industries
• Economic diversification

Working Paper

The objective of this paper is to develop a Model that integrates the biologically determined human need for food energy and the economic activity (most) people Bust engage in to be able to eat. The optimal work effort and the optimal body size of...

• Food security
• International agencies
• Women

Working Paper

Globally, the largest 0.001 per cent of firms earn roughly one-third of all corporate profits. Nonetheless, there is little understanding of how profit shifting differs across firm size. Using South African corporate tax returns from 2010–14, we...

• Tax
• International taxation
• Profit shifting

Journal Article

A propitiously timed household survey carried out in Mozambique over the period 2008/2009 permits us to study the relationship between shifts in food prices and child nutrition status in a low income setting. We focus on weight-for-height and weight...

• Children
• Food industry and trade
• Inflation

Blog

by Finn Tarp September 2018

The Myanmar Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Survey 2017 shows that there is a need for comprehensive and immediate change in industrial, financial...

• Myanmar
• SMEs
• Structural transformation

Blog

by Finn Tarp March 2016

International Women’s Day on 8th March 2016 is a time to celebrate. It is also a time for reflection. We must constantly remind ourselves that while...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Equality and inequality
• Women

Blog

by Ricardo Santos September 2018

Sitting in the large conference room where we are being invited to ‘Think WIDER’ at the WIDER Development Conference this September. Surrounded by...

• Poverty and inequality
• Poverty
• Inequality

Journal Article

The effects of conditional cash transfers (CCTs) on poverty and well-being have been widely studied. However, there is limited knowledge on how a CCT should respond to the dynamics of poverty. How should program administrators treat beneficiaries...

• Panel analysis
• Poverty
• Poverty measurement

Working Paper

A large part of Africa is chronically affected by a severe food crisis which threatens the food security of many of her inhabitants. A peculiarity of this continent is that food production is not only a source of food but also a source of incomes for...

• Agriculture
• Famine
• Food security

Blog

by Oxford Policy Management Limited September 2018

Originally posted by Oxford Policy Management The extractives sector, and the way it works, continues to change rapidly and its importance to many...

• Extractive industries
• Resource curse
• Policy coordination

Working Paper

We examine important changes in agriculture in Vietnam in the context of ongoing structural changes in the economy. We use a household-level panel dataset and a quantitative framework to document the extent and consequences of factor misallocation in...

• Agriculture
• Misallocation
• Productivity

Working Paper

This paper examines the relationship between poverty dynamics, causal pluralism, and mixed method research approaches. It reviews the nature and significance of the shift from the analysis of poverty status to poverty dynamics, discusses different...

• Poverty Dynamics
• Poverty measurement
• Methodology (Poverty)

Working Paper

We investigate within the context of Vietnam how circumstances at age 15 or 16 relate to completion of upper secondary education four years later. We exploit the longitudinal elements of the Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey to identify...

• Gender
• Education
• Access to education

Working Paper

The construction sector value added in Mozambique grew at an average annual rate of 12.8 per cent in 1993–2015. Investment in the basic infrastructure of health, education, and housing improved families’ and communities’ living conditions. Investment...

• Construction sector
• National accounts
• Public infrastructure

Working Paper

This paper traces the role of local content in Zambia’s mining sector in supporting industrialization and economic diversification. It assesses productive linkages and manufacturing competitiveness during import-substitution industrialization and...

• Industrialization
• Local content
• Economic linkages

Working Paper

The research explores the structure and performance of Ghana’s construction subsector, in light of the country’s 2007 oil discovery. Using primary and secondary data resources, we discuss how marginal costs and expenditure shocks may vary within the...

• Construction sector
• Price dynamics
• Expenditure shocks

Working Paper

• Economic development
• History of economics
• Macroeconomics

Working Paper

Industrial transformation of Asia arguably constitutes the most surprising and dramatic change in the global economy in the last fifty years. This paper provides an outline of some of the most important trends of this development and analyses...

• Industrial policy
• Industrialization
• Structural transformation

Working Paper

This paper aims to depict the post-Second World War poverty and inequality trends in Asia, its sub-regions, and individual economies. Efforts are made to explain these trends and explore the interrelationship between growth, poverty, and inequality...

Blog

by Timothy Shipp October 2018

Labour-saving technology in the form of robotic systems, artificial intelligence, and advanced computer networks may cause a rapid decline in global...

• WIDER Development Conference
• Development Economics
• Economic policy

Blog

by Timothy Shipp October 2018

13 September through 15 September 2018, UNU-WIDER hosted the Think development - Think WIDER conference in Helsinki, Finland. Over three days...

• WIDER Development Conference
• Development Economics
• Economic policy

Blog

by Timothy Shipp October 2018

What do we talk about at a conference on development economics? Well, robots, rockets, and space, of course. 13 September through 15 September 2018...

• WIDER Development Conference
• Development Economics
• Economic policy

Blog

by John Page October 2018

During the past week, I participated in two international conferences. The first was the WIDER Development Conference in Helsinki: Think development -...

• Industrialization
• Structural change
• Employment and Industry

Working Paper

• Comparative economics
• Economic development
• Economic policy