Documents & Reports
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Does management matter? Evidence from India (English)
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...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 81297 Document Date: August 14, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bloom,Nicholas,Eifert, Benn,Mahajan, Aprajit,Mckenzie,David J.,Johnson,Richard John Roberts
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Does management matter ? evidence from India (English)
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...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5573 Document Date: February 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bloom,Nicholas,Eifert, Benn,Mahajan, Aprajit,Mckenzie,David J.,Johnson,Richard John Roberts
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Improving management in India (English)
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...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 54372 Document Date: April 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bloom, Nick,Eifert, Benn,Mahajan, Aprajit,McK
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South Africa: an assessment of the investment climate (English)
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...
Document Type: Investment Climate Assessment (ICA) Report No.: 34907 Document Date: May 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Clarke, George R.G.,Eifert, Benn,Habyarimana,James Paul,Ingram, Mike,Kapery, Washeelah,Kaplan, David,Schwartz,Matthew,Ramachandran,Vijaya
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Improving the dynamics of aid : towards more predictable budget support (English)
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...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS3732 Document Date: October 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Eifert, Benn,Gelb,Alan Harold
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Business environment and comparative advantage in Africa: Evidence from the Investment Climate Data (English)
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...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 33662 Document Date: February 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Eifert, Benn,Gelb,Alan Harold,Ramachandran,Vijaya
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Competitiveness and private sector development in Africa: cross country evidence from the World Bank's investment climate data (English)
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...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 33665 Document Date: October 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Eifert, Benn,Ramachandran,Vijaya
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Competitiveness and private sector development in Africa: cross country evidence from the World Bank's investment climate data : Competitivite et developpement du secteur prive en Afrique: une analyse comparative des donnees sur le climat des investissements de la Banque Mondiale (French)
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...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 33665 Document Date: October 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Eifert, Benn,Ramachandran,Vijaya
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The political economy of fiscal policy and economic management in oil exporting countries (English)
Despite massive oil rent incomes since the early 1970s, the economic performance of oil-exporting countries-with notable exceptions-is poor. While there is extensive literature on the management of oil...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS2899 Document Date: October 31, 2002 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Eifert, Benn,Gelb, Alan,Borje Tallroth, Nils