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Mobilisation Anticipee du Marche : Fiche d’Information (Французский)

Rencontrer les fournisseurs potentiels avant le début d'un processus formel de passation de marchés est essentiel pour la réussite de tout projet complexe. À partir du 1er mars 2025, les Emprunteurs doivent...

The Role of Market Frictions in Demand for Prepaid Electricity (Английский)

Prepaid electricity contracts lower enforcement costs but may burden consumers, particularly when market frictions are present. This paper presents the results of a randomized control trial where 2,000...

Crowding in Effect of Public Investment on Private Investment Revisited (Английский)

Current investment trends in emerging market and developing economies are not enough to meet the needs of their growing populations and will fall short of achieving the sustainable development goals related...

Are All State-Owned Enterprises Equal ? A Taxonomy of Economic Activities to Assess SOE Presence in the Economy (Английский)

This paper proposes a sector taxonomy of the rationale for the presence of state-owned enterprises in specific industries. The taxonomy is conceptualized only on an efficiency-based rationale for state...

Sierra Leone - AFRICA WEST - P160295 - Sierra Leone Agro-Processing Competitiveness Project - Audited Financial Statement (Английский)

West Bank and Gaza - MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA - P164412 - Innovative Private Sector Development - Audited Financial Statement (Английский)

The Innovation Paradox : Developing-Country Capabilities and the Unrealized Promise of Technological Catch-up (Испанский)

Economists have long argued that developing countries have the potential for high productivity growth if they adopt existing technologies and apply them to the local context. This report brings to bear...

Identification Properties for Estimating the Impact of Regulation on Markups and Productivity (Английский)

This paper addresses several shortcomings in the productivity and markup estimation literature. Using Monte-Carlo simulations, the analysis shows that the methods in Ackerberg, Caves and Frazer (2015)...

Improving Smallholders’ Jobs Through Agribusiness Linkages : Findings of the Mozambique Agricultural Aggregator Pilot (MAAP) (Английский)

The Mozambique Agricultural Aggregator Pilot (MAAP) research program investigated how jobs and earnings changed when seven different commercial aggregators worked with contracted growers in farm-based...

Productivity Loss and Misallocation of Resources in Southeast Asia (Английский)

This paper examines within-sector resource misallocation in three Southeast Asian countries -- Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam. The methodology accounts for measurement error in revenues and costs. The...

Productivity Shocks and Repayment Behavior in Rural Credit Markets : A Framed Field Experiment (Английский)

Improving rural credit markets requires a good understanding of the root causes of market failures and taking necessary steps to address them. This paper investigates the role of productivity shocks in...

Multinational Corporation Affiliates, Backward Linkages, and Productivity Spillovers in Developing and Emerging Economies : Evidence and Policy Making (Английский)

Recent research on productivity spillovers from affiliates of multinational corporations in developing and emerging economies finds that backward linkages from affiliates of foreign-owned firms to local...

DAI TF0A1490 2019 Audit Report F4J I signed (Английский)

Foreign Direct Investment, Backward Linkages, and Productivity Spillovers : What Governments Can Do to Strengthen Linkages and Their Impact (Английский)

This note provides an up-to-date summary of the academic evidence around the drivers and channels for technology transfer and productivity spillovers by multinational corporations (MNC) operating in host...

Investment Linkages and Incentives : Promoting Technology Transfer and Productivity Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) (Английский)

This note seeks to provide an overview of investment incentive policy as a tool for Governments seeking to promote technology transfer and productivity spillovers by multinational enterprises (MNEs) in...

Serbia’s New Growth Agenda - Country Economic Memorandum (Английский)

Serbia spends relatively large amounts on state aid programs, many of which will have to be phased out or restructured to comply with EU laws. There is room to restructure the existing programs to target...

Concept Project Information Document (PID) - Financial Access for Supporting Territorial Economic Regeneration of Croatia - P172024 (Английский)

Return on Investment of Public Support to SMEs and Innovation in Poland : Functional Analysis Technical Note : Return on Investment of Public Support to SMEs and Innovation in Poland - Functional Analysis Technical Note (Английский)

This note is organized as follows. The first part describes the methodology behind the functional analysis. The second part presents the aggregate results of the analysis based on data from 2 national...

SME Upgrading Programs : Exploring Initiatives that Combine Market Linkages and Capability Strengthening (Английский)

A key focus of most countries is to stimulate growth in their small and medium enterprises (SME) population. There are various influences on SME competitiveness. Governments, development partners, non-profit...

SME Upgrading Program : Exploring Initiatives that Combine Market Linkages and Capability Strengthening (Английский)

This paper examines interventions that seek to address firm-level capabilities and access to markets in an integrated fashion. Examples of such interventions include supplier development programs (linking...