Research
Why Distributed End Users Often Limit Public Financial Management Reform Success
Externally supported Public Financial Management (PFM) reforms often have limited success in developing countries.
Reforming China's Monopolies
This working paper focuses on an aspect of governance that is crucial to the next phase of China’s development: reducing state monopolies in order to enhance economic efficiency and promote more equit
Statistics on the Informal Economy: Definitions, Regional Estimates & Challenges
This publication serves as a companion to a publication jointly produced by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and WIEGO titled Women and Men in the Informal Economy: A Statistical Picture, 2
Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Home-Based Workers
Home-based workers produce goods or services for the market from within or around their own homes: stitching garments and weaving textiles; producing craft products; processing and preparing food item
Trillions Gained and Lost: Estimating the Magnitude of Growth Episodes
We propose and implement a new technique for measuring the total magnitude of a growth episode: the change in output per capita resulting from one structural break in the trend growth of output (accel
Green Industrial Policy
Green growth requires green technologies: production techniques that economize on exhaustible resources and emit fewer greenhouse gases.
How Should Uganda Grow?
Income per capita in Uganda has doubled in the last 20 years. This remarkable performance has been buoyed by significant aid flows and large external imbalances.
Looking like an Industry: Supporting Commercial Agriculture in Africa
It has long been known that countries only converge conditionally i.e. poor countries catch up with richer ones only if they adopt policies and institutions that are conducive to economic growth.
Globalization, Structural Change, and Productivity Growth, with an Update on Africa
Large gaps in labor productivity between the traditional and modern parts of the economy are a fundamental reality of developing societies.
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