Documentos e Relatórios
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Firm Adaptation to Climate Risk in the Developing World (Inglês)
How firms in the developing world adapt to changes in weather extremes will play a key role in determining their nation’s economic growth. This survey of the recent microeconomics adaptation literature...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS10797 Data do documento: 10 de junho de 2024 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Grover,Arti Goswami,Kahn,Matthew Edwin
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Which Firms Drive the Gains from Connectivity and Competition ? The Impact of India’s Golden Quadrilateral across the Firm Life Cycle (Inglês)
This paper uses the construction of India's Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway to explore the impact of an exogenous increase in market access and competition across the firm life cycle and generates four...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS10710 Data do documento: 27 de fevereiro de 2024 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Grover,Arti Goswami,Maloney,William F.,O'Connell,Stephen A.
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Does Informality Depress Investments and Job Recovery ? Firm-Level Evidence from the COVID-19 Crisis in South Asia (Inglês)
Using three rounds of the World Bank's Business Pulse Surveys in South Asia, this paper quantifies the relationship between informality and firms' investment and employment decisions. Accounting for multidimensionality...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS10580 Data do documento: 3 de outubro de 2023 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Grover,Arti Goswami,Pereira Lopez,Mariana De La Paz
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Do Shocks Perpetuate Disparities within and across Informal Firms ? Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic in South Asia (Inglês)
Using three rounds of data from the Business Pulse Survey in South Asia, this paper studies the differential effects of the COVID-19 shock on informal firms. It also captures heterogeneity within informal...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS10579 Data do documento: 2 de outubro de 2023 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Grover,Arti Goswami,Pereira Lopez,Mariana De La Paz
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Masters of Disasters : The Heterogeneous Effects of a Crisis on Micro-Sized Firms (Inglês)
Most crises have a disproportionately larger negative effect on micro-sized firms. Yet, the heterogeneity of impact within micro-sized firms is lesser known. Using five waves of the World Bank's Business...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS10556 Data do documento: 28 de agosto de 2023 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Brucal,Arlan Zandro Ilagan,Grover,Arti Goswami
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The Effects of Energy Prices on Firm Competitiveness : Evidence from Chile (Inglês)
This paper analyzes the impact of changes in energy prices on the competitiveness of manufacturing firms in Chile. Using the Chilean Annual National Industrial Survey data, the paper illustrates that...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS10436 Data do documento: 8 de maio de 2023 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Amann,Juergen,Grover,Arti Goswami
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Trade Promotion Organizations in the Pandemic World (Inglês)
A 2021-22 survey of trade promotion organizations conducted by the World Bank to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic affected their functioning suggests four main findings. First, trade promotion organizations...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS10374 Data do documento: 23 de março de 2023 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Choi,Yewon,Fernandes,Ana Margarida,Grover,Arti Goswami,Iacovone,Leonardo,Olarreaga,Marcelo
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Trade, Transport, and Territorial Development (Inglês)
The spatial distribution of economic activity is known to depend on trade costs, both international and domestic. This paper examines the interplay between these external and internal trade costs using...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS10066 Data do documento: 25 de maio de 2022 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Dasgupta,Kunal,Grover,Arti Goswami
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Globally Engaged Firms in the COVID-19 Crisis (Inglês)
This paper analyzes the initial impact and recovery of globally engaged firms from the COVID-19 crisis. It uses rich survey data of nearly 65,000 firm-year observations in 45 countries spanning three waves...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS9991 Data do documento: 4 de abril de 2022 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Constantinescu,Ileana Cristina,Fernandes,Ana Margarida,Grover,Arti Goswami,Poupakis,Stavros,Reyes Ortega,Santiago
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Proximity without Productivity : Agglomeration Effects with Plant-Level Output and Price Data (Inglês)
Recent literature suggests that the positive impact of population density on wages, the canonical measure of agglomeration effects, is multiples higher in developing countries than in advanced economies...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS9977 Data do documento: 21 de março de 2022 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Grover,Arti Goswami,Maloney,William F.
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Damaged by the Disaster : The Impact of COVID-19 on Firms in South Asia (Inglês)
This report focuses on the impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) on firms in South Asia. Six countries in South Asia were covered over two rounds. It covers six stylized facts on business recovery during COVID-19...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Report No. do relatório: 178915 Data do documento: 1 de fevereiro de 2022 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Grover,Arti Goswami
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Cox's Bazar - Inclusive Growth Diagnostic (Inglês)
The district of Cox’s Bazar, in southeastern Bangladesh, is an instructive context to understand how long-standing and newer growth opportunities and constraints manifest at the local level, remote from...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Report No. do relatório: 167936 Data do documento: 14 de janeiro de 2022 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Krishnan,Nandini,Tillan,Pablo Antonio,Endara Cevallos,Jose Joaquin,Grover,Arti Goswami,Banick,Robert Steven
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Place, Productivity, and Prosperity : Revisiting Spatially Targeted Policies for Regional Development - Overview (Vol. 2) (Inglês)
Productivity accounts for half of the differences in gross domestic product per capita across countries. Identifying policies that stimulate productivity is thus critical to alleviating poverty and fulfilling...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Report No. do relatório: 167987 Data do documento: 31 de dezembro de 2021 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Grover,Arti Goswami,Lall,Somik V.,Maloney,William F.
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Place, Productivity, and Prosperity : Revisiting Spatially Targeted Policies for Regional Development (Inglês)
Productivity accounts for half of the differences in gross domestic product per capita across countries. Identifying policies that stimulate productivity is thus critical to alleviating poverty and fulfilling...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Report No. do relatório: 167987 Data do documento: 31 de dezembro de 2021 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Grover,Arti Goswami,Lall,Somik V.,Maloney,William F.
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High-Growth Firms : Facts, Fiction, and Policy Options for Emerging Economies : Empresas de Alto Crecimiento - Hechos, Ficción y Opciones de Políticas Públicas para Economías Emergentes (Espanhol)
This report explores the key characteristics of High-Growth Firms (HGFs), focusing particularly on those aspects that have been or can be used as filters for policy action. The report then discusses a...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Publicação No. do relatório: 132062 Data do documento: 31 de dezembro de 2021 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Grover,Arti Goswami,Medvedev,Denis,Olafsen,Ellen
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Firm Recovery during COVID-19 : Six Stylized Facts (Inglês)
Building on prior work that documented the impact of COVID-19 on firms in developing countries using the first wave of Business Pulse Surveys, this paper presents a new set of stylized facts on firm recovery...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS9810 Data do documento: 18 de outubro de 2021 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Cirera,Xavier,Vargas Da Cruz,Marcio Jose,Grover,Arti Goswami,Iacovone,Leonardo,Medvedev,Denis,Pereira Lopez,Mariana De La Paz,Reyes,Santiago
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Agglomeration Economies in Developing Countries : A Meta-Analysis (Inglês)
Recent empirical work suggests that there are large agglomeration gains from working and living in developing country cities. These estimates find that doubling city size is associated with an increase...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS9730 Data do documento: 19 de julho de 2021 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Grover,Arti Goswami,Lall,Somik V.,Timmis,Jonathan David
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Why Do Manufacturing Firms Sell Services ? Evidence from India (Inglês)
Manufacturers in India are increasingly selling services—a phenomenon referred to as servitization. Both the proportion of manufacturers selling services and the share of services in total revenue of manufacturers...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS9701 Data do documento: 18 de junho de 2021 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Grover,Arti Goswami,Mattoo,Aaditya
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Does Participation in Global Value Chains Reduce Spatial Inequalities within Countries ? (Inglês)
This paper examines whether a country’s participation in global value chains supports spatial convergence in the domestic economy. In theory, production disintegration through “unbundling” makes industrial...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS9619 Data do documento: 9 de abril de 2021 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Grover,Arti Goswami,Lall,Somik V.
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Damaged by the Disaster : The Impact of COVID-19 on Firms in South Asia (Inglês)
To assess the impact of COVID-19 on firms, the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation conducted Business Pulse Surveys in several countries, including six in the South Asia region. Analysis...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS9604 Data do documento: 30 de março de 2021 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Brucal,Arlan Zandro Ilagan,Grover,Arti Goswami,Reyes Ortega,Santiago