Working Paper
Measuring consumption over the phone
The paucity of reliable, timely household consumption data in many low- and middle-income countries has made it difficult to assess how global poverty has evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic. Standard poverty measurement requires collecting...
Report
Myanmar Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises 2018 Qualitative Study
The purpose of this report is to give a nuanced picture of the SME business environment in Myanmar as a complement to the 2017 MSME quantitative survey conducted within the project ‘Towards Inclusive Development in Myanmar’. This project is a...
Working Paper
We need land first
The aim of this study is to identify needs for recovery from people’s perspectives under a localized context following the 2015 earthquake in Nepal. A qualitative approach was applied to collecting and processing data which consist of 114 semi...
Working Paper
A comparative study of export processing zones in the wake of the Sustainable Development Goals
The objective of this research is to assess the extent to which export processing zones in Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe integrate the Sustainable Development Goals in their implementation and operations. We focused on four Sustainable...
Working Paper
Linked in by foreign direct investment
This study combines evidence from interviews in seven countries with (i) government institutions responsible for attracting foreign direct investment (FDI), (ii) 102 multinational enterprises (MNEs), and (iii) 226 domestic firms linked to these...
Seminar
The political economy of green growth
Finn Tarp, Director of UNU-WIDER delivered a seminar on 'The Political Economy of Green Growth' as part of the TCD/UCD Development Research Seminar Series 2012 organised by the Trinity International Development Initiative (TIDI) at Trinity College...
Fri, 23 March 2012
Dublin,
Ireland
Past event
Working Paper
Competing in the Digital Economy?
This paper explores the current state of play and likely future direction of business-to-business electronic commerce in the South African manufacturing sector. The empirical evidence presented draws on 120 firm-level interviews, and 31 personal...
Workshop
Research workshop on war and reconstruction in Ukraine
From 8–9 May 2023, UNU-WIDER holds a research workshop bringing together an international group of researchers with expertise in conflict and peacebuilding to discuss new research that can support policymakers’ discussions on the stabilization...
Mon, 8 May 2023
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Tue, 9 May 2023
UNU-WIDER,
Katajanokanlaituri 6 B,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Report
Characteristics of the Vietnamese business environment
This is the sixth time that the collaborative small and medium enterprise (SME) panel survey has been conducted among formal and informal manufacturing firms in Viet Nam. The results of previous survey rounds, those of 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, and...
Report
Characteristics of the Vietnamese Business Environment (in Vietnamese)
This report represents the seventh time that the small and medium enterprise (SME) survey has been conducted. The results of previous survey rounds, and in particular those of 2005, 2007, and 2009 inspired the Central Institute for Economic...
Report
Characteristics of the Vietnamese Business Environment
This report represents the seventh time that the small and medium enterprise (SME) survey has been conducted. The results of previous survey rounds, and in particular those of 2005, 2007, and 2009 inspired the Central Institute for Economic...
Project workshop
An SME survey in Myanmar: Second training of enumerators
Following their first training, enumerators and supervisors from across Myanmar met to finalize their preparation for a survey of small and medium-sized enterprises. Participants discussed pending questions about the survey process, then participated...
Mon, 29 May 2017
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Tue, 30 May 2017
Central Statistical Organization,
Naypyidaw,
Myanmar (Burma)
Past event
Project workshop
An SME survey in Myanmar: First training of enumerators
Over 100 enumerators and their supervisors from across Myanmar participated in this 2-day training event in preparation for a survey of small and medium-sized enterprises throughout the country. At the event participants discussed the survey manual...
Mon, 15 May 2017
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Tue, 16 May 2017
Central Statistical Organization,
Naypyidaw,
Myanmar (Burma)
Past event
Project meeting
Third Steering Committee Meeting of the Myanmar Enterprise Monitoring System (MEMS)
On 14 March the third Steering Committee meeting for the Towards inclusive development in Myanmar project takes place at the Central Statistical Organization (CSO) Office, Naypyidaw, Myanmar.
Wed, 14 March 2018
Central Statistical Organization (CSO) Office,
Naypyidaw,
Myanmar (Burma)
Past event
Workshop
Report launch of 'Characteristics of the Vietnamese business environment: Evidence from a small and medium enterprise survey in 2011'
A report describing the main findings and key policy recommendations arising from a new survey of Vietnamese Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) was launched at Ha Noi’s Central Institute of Economic Management on 21 November 2012. The results of...
Wed, 21 November 2012
Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM),
Hanoi,
Vietnam
Past event
Seminar
Amrita Saha on trade, technology and absorptive capacity of Tanzanian textiles and apparel companies
Amrita Saha gave a presentation on 20 May 2020, as part of the Sustainable development solutions for Tanzania – strengthening research to achieve SDGs project. The presentation was held as a webinar. Abstract - Trade, technology and absorptive...
Wed, 20 May 2020
Past event
Presentation
Presentation by Reena das Nair at policy workshop on retail modernization and supermarket expansion
On 24-25 November Reena das Nair, Senior Researcher at CCRED will talk about her work on supermarket chains in our Regional Growth and Development in Southern Africa project during the roundtable policy workshop ‘Global Retail Modernization, South...
Tue, 24 November 2015
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Wed, 25 November 2015
Past event
Report
Survey of Mozambican Manufacturing Firms 2017
This report documents the principal findings of the 2017 Survey of Mozambican Manufacturing Firms (IIM 2017). The survey was planned and implemented by researchers from the Development Economics Research Group (DERG) at the University of Copenhagen...
Working Paper
Aid and the Environment
We investigate allocations of foreign aid by donors to the environment sector in Kenya covering the period 2001-12. Our data are largely obtained from official government and global aid databases complemented with donor interviews. We find that donor...
Working Paper
The expansion of regional supermarket chains
This paper explores the effect of the spread of supermarkets on the participation of suppliers in supermarket value chains in Botswana and South Africa. Using secondary data and in-depth interviews with key players in the value chain, the paper...
Working Paper
Non-Financial Corporate Risk Management and Exchange Rate Volatility in Latin America
This article studies the currency risk management of multinational companies with investments in Latin American countries. The analysis is centred on episodes of currency or financial shocks, searching into the behaviour of the financial management...
Journal Article
Impact evaluation and synthesis
We examine how impact evaluation (IE) and associated syntheses contribute to evidence generation in low- and middle-income (LMIC) countries. We interviewed over 50 individuals from relevant organisations and five LMIC countries and drew on data from...
Working Paper
Aid and the Environment
Botswana has serious environmental problems which, if not addressed, will undermine the attainment of sustainable economic development. This study attempts to determine what aid flows have actually been doing with regard to the environment in...
Working Paper
Poverty in the Eyes of Brazilian Elites
This paper discusses data from a survey and in-depth interviews on elite perceptions of poverty in Brazil. De Swaan tried to identify the circumstances under which elites are willing to mobilize resources in order to promote poverty reduction. This...
Working Paper
Towards the integration of markets
Rapid urbanization and rising income levels in Southern Africa have increased the consumption of perishable and processed food products. This paper relies primarily on firm-level interview data to assess competition and bottlenecks in transporting...
Working Paper
The costs and benefits of formalization for firms
This paper is the first to use a panel dataset from the African continent to investigate the relationship between formalization and firm outcomes. Instead of applying a binary formality indicator, it constructs a conceptual framework that regards...
Working Paper
‘Ground-Truthing’ Chinese Development Finance in Africa
A new methodology, Tracking Under-Reported Financial Flows (TUFF), allows us to systematically gather open-source information—e.g. news reports, case studies, project inventories from embassy websites, and grant and loan data published by recipient...
Working Paper
COVID-19 and informal work
This paper presents findings from two rounds (2020 and 2021) of a study on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on informal workers in 11 cities across five regions of the world (Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and North America). The study...