Documents & Reports
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The World Bank economic review 27 (2) (English)
This issue includes the following: Does Urbanization Affect Rural Poverty? Evidence from Indian Districts by Massimiliano Cali and Carlo Menon. Learning versus Stealing: How Important are Market-Share...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 94100 Document Date: June 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cali,Massimiliano,Deininger,Klaus W.,Eberhardt,Markus Benjamin,Grossmann, Volker,Harrison,Ann E.,Liu,Yanyan,Martin,Leslie A.,Menon, Carlo,Nataraj,Shanthi,Newman,Carol Frances,Rand,John,Stadelmann, David,Tarp,Finn,Teal,Francis John,Van de Sijpe, Nicolas
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Explaining Africa's (Dis)advantage (English)
Africa's economic performance has been widely viewed with pessimism. In this paper, firm-level data for around 80 countries are used to examine formal firm performance. Without controls, manufacturing...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS6316 Document Date: January 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Harrison,Ann E.,Lin, Justin Yifu,Xu,Lixin
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Learning versus stealing : how important are market-share reallocations to India’s productivity growth? (English)
Recent trade theory emphasizes the role of market-share reallocations across firms ("stealing") in driving productivity growth, whereas previous literature focused on average productivity improvements...
Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 94102 Document Date: November 21, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Harrison,Ann E.,Martin,Leslie A.,Nataraj,Shanthi
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The World Bank research observer 27 (1) (English)
This issue includes the following: mashup indices of development; impact analysis of rural electrification projects in Sub-Saharan Africa; what can we learn about the 'resource curse' from foreign aid?...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 80524 Document Date: February 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Jimenez,Emmanuel Y.,Serven,Luis,Alderman,Harold H.,Eichengreen,Barry J.,Fay,Marianne,Hammer,Jeffrey S.,Kanbur,Ravi,Revenga,Ana L.,Harrison,Ann E.
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Estimating the impact of trade and offshoring on American workers using the current population surveys (English)
The authors link industry-level data on trade and offshoring with individual-level worker data from the Current Population Surveys. They find that occupational exposure to globalization is associated with...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5750 Document Date: August 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ebenstein,Avraham Yehuda,Harrison,Ann E.,Mcmillan,Margaret S.,Phillips,Shannon
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Recent perspectives on trade and inequality (English)
The 1990's dealt a blow to traditional Heckscher-Ohlin analysis of the relationship between trade and income inequality, as it became clear that rising inequality in low-income countries and other features...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5754 Document Date: August 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Harrison,Ann E.,Mclaren,John Edward,Mcmillan,Margaret S.
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The World Bank research observer 26 (2) (English)
This issue includes the following: the new structural economics comments on the new structural economics; gender and firm creation; enterprise performance; and business environments and development.
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 80523 Document Date: August 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Jimenez,Emmanuel Y.,Serven,Luis,Alderman,Harold H.,Eichengreen,Barry J.,Fay,Marianne,Hammer,Jeffrey S.,Kanbur,Ravi,Pack,Howard,Revenga,Ana L.,Harrison,Ann E.
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Decomposing the great trade collapse : products, prices, and quantities in the 2008-2009 crisis (English)
The authors identifies a new set of stylized facts on the 2008-2009 trade collapse that they hope can be used to shed light on the importance of demand and supply-side factors in explaining the fall in...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5749 Document Date: August 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Haddad,Mona E.,Harrison,Ann E.,Hausman, Catherine
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Learning versus stealing : how Important are market-share -- reallocations to India's productivity growth? (English)
Recent trade theory emphasizes the role of market-share reallocations across firms ("stealing") in driving productivity growth, while the older literature focused on average productivity improvements ("learning")...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5761 Document Date: August 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Harrison,Ann E.,Martin,Leslie A.,Nataraj,Shanthi
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Do institutions matter for FDI spillovers ? the implications of China's "special characteristics" (English)
The authors investigate how institutions affect productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI) to China's domestic industrial enterprises during 1998-2007. They examine three institutional...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5757 Document Date: August 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Du,Luosha,Harrison,Ann E.,Jefferson,Gary
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Learning from developing country experience : growth and economic thought before and after the 2008-09 crisis (English)
The aim of this paper is twofold. First, it documents the changing global landscape before and after the crisis, emphasizing the shift towards multipolarity. In particular, it emphasizes the ascent of...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5752 Document Date: August 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Harrison,Ann E.,Sepulveda,Claudia Paz
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Ownership versus environment : disentangling the sources of public sector inefficiency (English)
The authors compare the performance of public and private sector manufacturing firms in Indonesia for 1981-95. They analyze whether public sector inefficiency is due primarily to agency-type problems ("ownership")...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS2272 Document Date: January 31, 2000 Author: Bartel, Ann P.,Harrison,Ann E.
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Trade policy reform - lessons and implications (English)
This book contains a series of papers presented at the final conference sponsored by the Trade Expansion Program (TEP). The first chapter provides an overview of some of the lessons learned from the TEP's...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 18577 Document Date: September 30, 1998 Author: Nash, John (Editor),Takacs, Wendy (Editor),De Melo,Jaime A. P.,Collier,Paul,Panagariya,Arvind,Hood, Ron,Chia-Seng Wu,Shui-Chi Chuang,Finger, J. Michael,Hardy, Rebecca,Harrison,Ann E.,Revenga,Ana L.,Valdes,Alberto,Berg,Elliot J.
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Do domestic firms benefit from foreign direct investment? Evidence from panel data (English)
Many developing countries now actively solicit foreign investment, offering firms subsidies, tax holidays, and exemptions from import duties. One justification for subsidizing these firms is the so-called...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS1248 Document Date: February 28, 1994 Author: Aitken, Brian,Harrison,Ann E.,DEC
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Are there dynamic externalities from direct foreign investment? Evidence for Morocco (English)
Many developing countries now actively solicit foreign investment, offering income tax holidays, import duty exemptions, and subsidies to foreign firms. One reason for subsidizing these firms is the positive...
Document Type: Departmental Working Paper Report No.: 7680 Document Date: December 31, 1991 Author: Haddad,Mona E.,Harrison,Ann E.
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Productivity, imperfect competition, and trade liberalization in Cote d'Ivoire (English)
This paper analyzes changes in firm behaviour and productivity during trade liberalization in the Code d'Ivoire. For a panel of 287 firms, market power was estimated before and after a trade reform implemented...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS451 Document Date: July 31, 1990 Author: Harrison,Ann E.
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Pakistan - Industrial regulatory policies (Vol. 2 of 2) : Market structure, firm behavior and performance - subsector evidence (English)
In the 1980s Pakistan's manufacturing sector resumed the rapid growth that had characterized the post-independence period of the 1950s and 1960s. This renewal has coincided with a policy of deregulating...
Document Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector Report Report No.: 7095 Document Date: January 15, 1988 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: De Nevers,Michele E.,Steel,William F.,Harrison,Ann E.,Lee,Kun-Kyung
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Pakistan - Industrial regulatory policies (Vol. 1 of 2) : Main report (English)
In the 1980s Pakistan's manufacturing sector resumed the rapid growth that had characterized the post-independence period of the 1950s and 1960s. This renewal has coincided with a policy of deregulating...
Document Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector Report Report No.: 7095 Document Date: January 1, 1988 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: De Nevers,Michele E.,Steel,William F.,Harrison,Ann E.,Lee,Kun-Kyung