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COVID-19 and the Informal Economy
Book Chapter
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– What Is Missing from National Economic Recovery Plans?
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COVID-19 and the Informal Economy
Book Chapter
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– A Case of Domestic Workers in Delhi
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COVID-19 and the Informal Economy
Book Chapter
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– Unpacking COVID-19 Impact on Livelihoods and Poverty in Rural Areas and Urban Low-Income Settlements of Bangladesh
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COVID-19 and the Informal Economy
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– Accounts from Residents of Cape Town’s Largest Township
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COVID-19 and the Informal Economy
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– National labour surveys in five Latin American countries and field research in 11 cities around the world
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COVID-19 and the Informal Economy
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– Degrees and Pathways of Impact in 11 Cities around the World
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COVID-19 and the Informal Economy
Book Chapter
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Sustaining Tanzania's Economic Development
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Sustaining Tanzania's Economic Development
Journal Article
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– Theory and some evidence from India
Using the lens of a life-cycle model, we argue that an administrative failure of a wage payment delay in a workfare programme could adversely affect the welfare of the poor through two channels. First, it imposes an implicit consumption tax on the household. Second, it changes the status of labour...
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We explore the relationship between household welfare and informality, measuring household informality as the share of members’ activities (hours worked or income) without social insurance. We discretize these measures into four bins or portfolios and assess their influence on consumption, as a...
Journal Article
We design a lab-in-the-field experiment involving naturally occurring groups operating in three South-African townships. We introduce an incentives-based mechanism named 'participatory incentives' consisting of monetary incentives that are awarded conditional on the group reaching a threshold of...
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– Experimental evidence from an information dissemination intervention
This study assesses the impact of an information dissemination intervention on the local-level implementation of the rural public works program in India. One key feature of the intervention is to provide information to workers once their wages get credited into their accounts. Using administrative...
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– Evidence from Latin American countries
Part of Journal Special Issue
Women’s Work
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– Rules versus discretionary budgets
Part of Journal Special Issue
Clientelist Politics and Development
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