This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study; entitled Does management matter? Evidence from India, conducted the first round of the intervention started in September 2008, the...
A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm performance. To investigate this, the authors ran a management field experiment on large...
The tenth in a new series of impact notes profiles early results from an ongoing randomized experiment, which is the first such experiment with large firms. Early results show how much difference improving...
The objective of the South Africa Investment Climate Assessment (ICA) is to evaluate the investment climate in South Africa in all its operational dimensions and promote policies to strengthen the private...
This paper considers approaches towards improving the predictability of aid to low income countries, with a special focus on budget support. In order to accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development...
This paper ties together the macroeconomic and microeconomic evidence on the competitiveness of African manufacturing sectors. The conceptual framework is based on the newer theories that see the evolution...
Investment Climate Survey data are now available for several member countries of the World Bank, including eight in Sub-Saharan Africa. These reports and the surveys that underpin them have generated very...
Investment Climate Survey data are now available for several member countries of the World Bank, including eight in Sub-Saharan Africa. These reports and the surveys that underpin them have generated very...
尽管从20世纪70年代早期开始就拥有巨额的石油租金收入,但石油出口国的经济情况却并不好(当然其中也有明显的例外)。有大量文献研究石油资源的管理问题,但相比而言很少有研究分析导致经济情况欠佳的基本政治因素。利用政治科学中比较制度分析的概念,作者建立了一个关于政治国家的一般化的类型学,用以对政治体制差别甚大的石油出口国的财政及经济管理情况进行政治经济学分析。在评价各国的经济情况时,作者主要分析长期储蓄、经济稳定和石油租金的有效利用等问题。...