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      Digital de-industrialization, global value chains, and structural transformation
      – Empirical evidence from low- and middle-income countries
      Karishma Banga, Pankhury Harbansh, Surendar Singh - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
      Digitalization and shifting patterns of globalization are fast changing the rules of the game for countries embarking on a path of industrialization. In this study, we empirically examine the impact of digitalization and global value chains on structural transformation using a cross-country panel of...
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      Structural transformation and international trade
      – Evidence from the China shock
      Clément Nedoncelle, Julien Wolfersberger - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
      How does international trade affect structural transformation in developing countries? We use data on sectoral allocation of labour and value-added in 46 developing economies over the period 1995–2017 and exploit for identification plausibly exogenous variation in manufacturing imports from China...
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      Gendered implications of the waves of COVID-19 and economic upgrading trajectories in digital value chains
      – Insights from Kenyan agricultural platforms
      Aarti Krishnan, Monica Nganga, Tim Foster - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
      Women play a critical yet under-researched role in global digital agri-food value chains, especially in smallholder production, which affects how they are able to economically upgrade (improve crop yields and product quality, and increase product diversification). Research suggests that women’s...
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      Language and student learning
      – Evidence from an ethnographic study in Mozambique
      Feliciano Chimbutane, Ritva Reinikka - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
      This ethnographic study explores the implementation of bilingual education in Mozambique: how it is understood, adapted, and resisted by school directors, teachers, and local officials. Bilingual education uses local languages in early grades before a gradual shift into Portuguese, which most...
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      Welfare losses, preferences for redistribution, and political participation
      – Evidence from the United Kingdom’s age of austerity
      Patricia Justino, Bruno Martorano, Laura Metzger - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
      This paper studies the effect of austerity on forms of political participation—including voting, appealing for reform, and peaceful protesting—and the role of preferences for redistribution in shaping the relationship between individual exposure to austerity and political participation. The paper...
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      Do the effectiveness principles matter for development?
      – Evidence from aid effectiveness data
      Rachel M. Gisselquist, Patricia Justino, Andrea Vaccaro - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
      The Principles of Effective Development Co-operation provide an important reference point for foreign aid and international development assistance. Although the principles—country ownership, focus on results, inclusive partnerships, and transparency and mutual accountability—are framed to support...
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      Affirmative action around the world: insights from a new dataset
      Rachel M. Gisselquist, Simone Schotte, Min Jung Kim - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
      Affirmative action, or positive discrimination favouring the members of marginalized populations, is a key policy approach for addressing group-based inequalities along ethnic, religious, and racial lines (e.g. horizontal inequalities). It is adopted in dozens of countries around the world in the...
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      Armed group opportunism in the face of recent crises
      – COVID-19 and climate change
      Siobhan O'Neil - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
      Terrorist and other types of armed groups often exploit natural and human-made disasters and emergencies to advance their causes. This paper studies how some armed groups have responded to two recent global emergencies—climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. It examines the messaging and actions...
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      More information, better knowledge? The effects of information campaigns on aid beneficiaries’ knowledge of aid projects
      Alexander De Juan, Paul Hofman, Carlo Koos - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
      Aid beneficiaries know very little about development interventions in their own communities. This lack of transparency and information is likely to reduce beneficiaries’ ability and willingness to become active in local development. It may also dampen intended aid effects on beneficiaries’ political...
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      Employment transitions with high unemployment and a small informal sector
      – Examining worker flows during normal and recessionary periods in South Africa
      Shakeba Foster - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
      This paper examines employment transitions in the South African labour market. Using the Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series, it analyses flows between the formal sector, informal sector, and unemployment, paying specific attention to how these flows differ during recessions. It explicitly considers...
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      Sanction-busting through tax havens
      Kerim Can Kavakli, Giovanna Marcolongo, Diego Zambiasi - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
      Financial sanctions, which aim to economically hurt a target by restricting its access to financial assets and markets, require the ability to identify who owns an asset. Although experts have long claimed that offshore financial centres that offer secrecy (‘tax havens’) undermine sanctions by...
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      Tax and sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa
      – Beyond accountability and responsiveness
      Alex Adegboye, Abrams M.E. Tagem - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
      This paper establishes how accountability quality might mediate the effect of tax revenue on sustainable development in 41 sub-Saharan African countries for the period 1990–2019. The empirical evidence is based on three empirical strategies: generalized method of moments, instrumental variable Tobit...
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      International development assistance and the inclusivity paradox in fragile and conflict-affected states
      Timothy Donais, Alistair Edgar - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
      The principle of inclusive development lies at the heart of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and in particular Goal 16, with its focus on inclusive societies backed by inclusive institutions. Yet despite its ubiquity across the SDGs, inclusivity not only remains ill-defined, but is both...
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      Politics, policies, and the effectiveness of foreign aid in fragile states
      Matthew Kofi Ocran - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
      International development cooperation has evolved since the 1960s. The effectiveness of aid is still topical, but studies have not paid adequate attention to the relationship between sectoral aid, politics, institutions, and aid effectiveness in fragile states. Using data from 2002 to 2020, this...
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      Theorizing revolution in democracies
      – Evidence from the 2019 uprisings in Lebanon and Iraq
      Chantal Berman, Killian Clarke, Rima Majed - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
      Scholarly logic holds that revolutionary movements are unlikely to break out in democracies, where citizens may simply remove unpopular leaders through elections. And yet the twenty-first century has witnessed a global series of uprisings against regimes that are nominally democratic—in that they...
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      The education backlash
      – How assimilative primary school education affects insurgency in areas of ethnic conflict
      Tugba Bozcaga, Asli Cansunar - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
      Education is a public service, assumed to be highly valued by citizens, allowing politicians to use it to reward their co-ethnics. However, nation-states have also used education to create loyal citizens, leaving politicians in times of heightened threat of ethnic mobilization. This study...
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