– Insights from apparel firms in Lesotho and Eswatini
Giovanni Pasquali - UNU-WIDER, 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
We explore how decent work varies across Southern Africa apparel firms participating in global value chains (GVCs) and regional value chains (RVCs), respectively.
We draw on cross-section survey data from 135 workers in 31 firms across Eswatini and Lesotho, two large apparel exporters serving...
This paper aims to decompose the sources of growth in economies in the Southern African region’s Common Monetary Area and in the provinces of South Africa.
Decomposition results for the Common Monetary Area reveal that the growth of aggregate and sectoral gross domestic product is driven...
– Evidence from the Lesotho Child Grants Programme
Ashwini Sebastian, Ana Paula de la O Campos, Silvio Daidone, Noemi Pace, Benjamin Davis, Ousmane Niang, Luca Pellerano - Population and Development Review, 2019
– Evidence from the Lesotho Child Grants Programme
Ashwini Sebastian, Ana Paula de la O Campos, Silvio Daidone, Benjamin Davis, Ousmane Niang, Luca Pellerano - UNU-WIDER, 2016 - Helsinki, Finland
We 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. Girls in this age group were less likely to miss...
– Evidence from Manufacturing Firms in an African Economy
Abdelrasaq Na-Allah - Routledge, 2015 - New York, USA
Recent developments in policy initiatives as well as some current practical events have combined to put the spotlight on the issue of industrial embeddedness in sub-Saharan Africa. Though extant research documents some stylized facts, as determinants of its manifestations, their relevance to...
Abdelrasaq Na-Allah - UNU-WIDER, 2011 - Helsinki, Finland
Recent developments in policy initiatives as well as some current practical events have combined to put the spotlight on the issue of industrial embeddedness in sub-Saharan Africa. Though extant research documents some stylized facts, as determinants of its manifestations, their relevance to...
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