Documentos e Relatórios

Supporting Informal Waste Pickers : NEPRA Lowers Risks and Increases Efficiency through Inclusive Employment Practices (Inglês)

NEPRA Resource Management Private Limited (NEPRA) is a large Indian waste management and recycling company. This case study focuses on NEPRA’s initiatives to support waste pickers in its supply chain...

Strengthening Recycling Value Chains : Petco’s Inclusive Employment Practices Support Environmental and Social Goals (Inglês)

Corporate priorities, government policies, and public demand are driving companies across the world to improve their environmental and social footprint. In South Africa, the Petco Producer Responsibility...

Inclusive Employment : Advancing Economic Opportunities at the Base of the Pyramid (Inglês)

An estimated 4.5 billion people in developing countries live at the base of the pyramid (BOP), surviving on low-income and lacking access to goods, services, and economic opportunities. Workers at the...

Lights Off, Lights On : The Effects of Electricity Shortages on Small Firms (Inglês)

Entrepreneurs in developing countries report that unreliable electricity imposes a serious constraint, yet little evidence exists on how blackouts impact the micro firms that account for the majority of...

Ghana - Social Opportunities Project (Inglês)

The Social Opportunities Project of Ghana had a satisfactory overall outcome, a satisfactory performance by the Bank and the monitoring and evaluation quality was substantial. The lessons learned were:...

Human Capital and Macro-Economic Development : A Review of the Evidence (Inglês)

This paper reviews the evidence on the importance of human capital for macro-economic development. Through the lens of a simple aggregate production function, human capital might increase output per capita...

FDI and the Skill Premium : Evidence from Emerging Economies (Inglês)

Foreign direct investment may play an important role in transferring technologies from high-income to emerging economies, which can lead to uneven effects on the wages of skilled and unskilled workers...

Exporting Firms and the Demand for Skilled Tasks (Inglês)

This paper explores the link between exports and the demand for skilled tasks. Using the Chilean Encuesta Nacional Industrial Anual (ENIA), an annual census of manufacturing firms, the analysis first shows...

ICT adoption and wage inequality : evidence from Mexican firms (Inglês)

This paper uses a panel of firms from the Mexican Economic Censuses and analyzes at the microeconomic level how labor markets adapt to the adoption of information and communication technologies. The paper...

Online exports and the wage gap (Inglês)

The development of the Internet is often seen as a source of demand for skilled workers and therefore a potential driver of the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers. This paper focuses on the...

Global inequality in a more educated world (Inglês)

In developing countries, younger and better-educated cohorts are entering the workforce. This developing world-led education wave is altering the skill composition of the global labor supply, and impacting...

The distributive impact of terms of trade shocks (Inglês)

The halving of oil prices, which happened in a short period between late 2014 and the first months of 2015, has generated major terms of trade losses for oil exporting countries. Even if the oil producing...

Afghanistan - National Solidarity Program III : P117103 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 13 (Inglês)

Exporters, engineers, and blue-collar workers (Inglês)

This paper investigates differences in the composition of employment between exporting and non-exporting firms. In particular, it asks whether exporting firms hire more engineers relative to blue-collar...

Afghanistan - National Solidarity Program III : P117103 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 12 (Inglês)

Mali - Mali Reconstruction and Economic Recovery : P144442 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 05 (Inglês)

Global migration revisited : short-term pains, long-term gains, and the potential of south-south migration (Inglês)

This paper re-examines the development implications of international migration focusing on two issues: how the costs and benefits of migration change over time, and the significance of South-South migration...

Exporters, Engineers, and Blue-collar Workers (Inglês)

This article investigates differences in the composition of employment between exporting and nonexporting firms. In particular, it asks whether exporting firms hire more engineers relative to blue-collar...

DECPG Weekly Global Economic Brief (Inglês)

Some of the headings included in this issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG) weekly global economic newsletter are as follows: China exports tumbled in February, consumer price inflation...

Afghanistan - National Solidarity Program III : P117103 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 11 (Inglês)