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Poverty Dynamics and Programme Graduation from Social Protection: A Transitional Model for Mexico’s Oportunidades ProgrammeSocial protection programmes have emerged as one of the most important anti-poverty policy strategies in developing countries. Their effects on poverty and well-being have been widely studied...
Panel analysis Poverty Poverty measurementWorking Paper
Exporting and Productivity: The Role of Ownership and Innovation in the Case of VietnamIn this paper, we investigate the relationship between exporting and productivity in the case of Vietnam using an extensive firm level panel dataset for the period 2005-11...
Business enterprises Commerce Organizational behaviorBook Chapter
Aid Effectiveness: Opening the Black BoxControversy over the aggregate impact of foreign aid has focused on reduced form estimates of the aid-growth link. The causal chain, through which aid affects developmental outcomes including growth, has received much less attention...
Capital investments Economic development HealthWorking Paper
Evaluation of Non-Governmental Development OrganizationsRandomized controlled trials (RCTs) are now widely used in development economics. However, their use is often resisted by non-governmental development organizations...
Economic development projects Nonprofit organizations Panel analysisWorking Paper
Determinants of Foreign Aid in Family Planning: How Relevant is the Mexico City Policy?The Mexico City Policy (MCP) prohibits the United States Agency for International Development from providing aid to international non-governmental organizations that provide abortion-related services...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Econometric models (Economic development) FamiliesJournal Article
Industry Switching in Developing CountriesFirm turnover (i.e., firm entry and exit) is a well-recognized source of sector-level productivity growth. In contrast, the role and importance of firms that switch activities from one sector to another is not well understood...
Industrial organization (Economic theory) Industrial productivity Labour economicsJournal Article
Firm Exit and Armed Conflict in ColombiaPart of Journal Special Issue Entrepreneurship and Conflict
Organizational behavior Panel analysis WagesJournal Article
Self-employment and Conflict in ColombiaPart of Journal Special Issue Entrepreneurship and Conflict
Conflict management Income Labour marketResearch Brief
Greenhouse Gas Emissions and China’s Agriculture SectorChina is the world’s largest developing country and its huge population requires a similarly large agricultural sector to sustain it...
Air pollution Agricultural innovations AgricultureResearch Brief
The Supply Side of AidIn the wake of the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 interest in the supply side of the donor equation has been rekindled...
Business cycles Economic assistance and foreign aid Financial crisisBlog
From the Editor’s Desk (September 2012)
Tony Addison Mid-September finds UNU-WIDER very busy preparing for our big conference on climate change and development policy that takes place later this month, as well as our WIDER Annual Lecture by Lant Pritchett of Harvard University (you can als...
Air pollution Agricultural innovations AgricultureBlog
Measuring Poverty Over TimeLuc Christiaensen and Lorraine Telfer-Taivainen If a person suddenly becomes poor, for example, due to an unexpected death or illness in the family, they will have a rather different experience and understanding of poverty than someone who has been i...
Children Consumption Poverty measurementResearch Brief
Does Aid Promote Development?Aid has had positive effect on growth and poverty reduction on average in the long term. There is no evidence of aid systematically increasing infl ation or reducing the amount of credit available to private industry...
Capital investments Economic development HealthWorking Paper
The Decarbonization of China's AgricultureAgriculture is one of the major greenhouse gas (GHG) emission sources in China. This paper aims to identify the key factors that have led to rising GHG emissions in China’s agricultural sector in recent decades...
Agricultural innovations Agriculture Air pollutionJournal Article
Benefits of Formalization: Evidence from Vietnamese Manufacturing SMEsBased on unique panel data consisting of both formal and informal firms, this paper uses a matched double difference approach to examine the relationship between legal status and firm level outcomes in micro, small and medium manufacturing enterprise...
Business enterprises Entrepreneurship Informal sectorJournal Article
Firm-Level Corruption in VietnamThis article uses panel data from a survey of small- and medium-sized enterprises in Vietnam to uncover which firms pay bribes and which do not...
Informal sector Econometrics Entrepreneurship