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    The Consequences of Political Interference in Bureaucratic Decision Making : Evidence from Nigeria

     
    Rogger, Daniel
    This paper investigates the consequences of granting politicians power over bureaucrats in the implementation of small-scale public infrastructure projects. While potentially bolstering the incentive for the executive to perform, increased legislative oversight may ...
    This paper investigates the consequences of granting politicians power over bureaucrats in the implementation of small-scale public infrastructure projects. Whil ...
    This paper investigates the consequences of granting politicians power over bureaucrats in the implementation of small-scale public infrastructure projects. While potentially bolstering the incentive for the executive to perform, increased legislative oversight may lead to distortions in the technocratic process for political gain ...
    Aug, 2018
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    Spatial and Sectoral Heterogeneity of Occupational Choice in Cameroon

     
    Bougna, Theophile; Nguimkeu, Pierre
    This paper investigates the relationship between location, agglomeration, access to credit, informality, and productivity across cities and industries in Cameroon. Emphasizing the link between micro-foundations and the data, the paper develops and estimates a structur ...
    This paper investigates the relationship between location, agglomeration, access to credit, informality, and productivity across cities and industries in Cameroo ...
    This paper investigates the relationship between location, agglomeration, access to credit, informality, and productivity across cities and industries in Cameroon. Emphasizing the link between micro-foundations and the data, the paper develops and estimates a structural model of occupational choice in which heterogeneous agents ch ...
    Jul, 2018
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    Repuplic of Liberia From Growth to Development : Priorities for Sustainably Reducing Poverty and Achieving Middle-Income Status by 2030

     
    World Bank Group
    Liberia’s status as a fragile state is deeply rooted in the political and economic exclusion practiced by the country’s founders. Although they constituted just 5 percent of the population, freed American slaves and their descendants dominated the country’s ...
    Liberia’s status as a fragile state is deeply rooted in the political and economic exclusion practiced by the country’s founders. Although they constituted just ...
    Liberia’s status as a fragile state is deeply rooted in the political and economic exclusion practiced by the country’s founders. Although they constituted just 5 percent of the population, freed American slaves and their descendants dominated the country’s intellectual and ruling class from 1847 to 1990. While Liberia’s sixteen i ...
    Apr, 2018
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    Gender Diversity in Ghanaian Boardrooms : An Abridged Report on Women on Boards of Corporate and Public Institutions in Ghana

     
    International Finance Corporation
    This publication provides a baseline exploration into gender diversity in the Ghanaian boardroom.It examines gender diversity—across sectors, ownership types, legal status, listing status, and anumber of organizational and board-level characteristics— to ...
    This publication provides a baseline exploration into gender diversity in the Ghanaian boardroom.It examines gender diversity—across sectors, ownership types, le ...
    This publication provides a baseline exploration into gender diversity in the Ghanaian boardroom.It examines gender diversity—across sectors, ownership types, legal status, listing status, and anumber of organizational and board-level characteristics— to provide empirical evidence to guidethe development of organizational and nati ...
    May 01, 2018
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    Structural Change in West Africa : A Tale of Gain and Loss

     
    Haile, Fiseha
    Economic growth in Benin, Burkina Faso, and Cote d'Ivoire occurred in tandem with a rapid exodus of labor out of agriculture. This paper investigates the contribution (or lack thereof) of within- and between-sector productivity changes to overall productivity ...
    Economic growth in Benin, Burkina Faso, and Cote d'Ivoire occurred in tandem with a rapid exodus of labor out of agriculture. This paper investigates the contrib ...
    Economic growth in Benin, Burkina Faso, and Cote d'Ivoire occurred in tandem with a rapid exodus of labor out of agriculture. This paper investigates the contribution (or lack thereof) of within- and between-sector productivity changes to overall productivity growth and output per capita growth since 2000. Productivity growth was ...
    Feb, 2018
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    Man vs. Machine in Predicting Successful Entrepreneurs : Evidence from a Business Plan Competition in Nigeria

     
    McKenzie, David; Sansone, Dario
    This paper compares the relative performance of man and machine in being able to predict outcomes for entrants in a business plan competition in Nigeria. The first human predictions are business plan scores from judges, and the second are simple ad hoc pr ...
    This paper compares the relative performance of man and machine in being able to predict outcomes for entrants in a business plan competition in Nigeria. The fir ...
    This paper compares the relative performance of man and machine in being able to predict outcomes for entrants in a business plan competition in Nigeria. The first human predictions are business plan scores from judges, and the second are simple ad hoc prediction models used by researchers. The paper compares these (out-of-sample) ...
    Dec, 2017
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    Creating Markets in Ghana : Country Private Sector Diagnostic

     
    World Bank Group
    The objective of the Ghana Country Private Sector Diagnostic (CPSD) is to identify the main opportunities for the private sector that will have a strong development impact in Ghana and to highlight the key constraints (both cross-cutting and sector-specific) ...
    The objective of the Ghana Country Private Sector Diagnostic (CPSD) is to identify the main opportunities for the private sector that will have a strong developm ...
    The objective of the Ghana Country Private Sector Diagnostic (CPSD) is to identify the main opportunities for the private sector that will have a strong development impact in Ghana and to highlight the key constraints (both cross-cutting and sector-specific) hampering private sector growth. The CPSD consists of a systematic assess ...
    Nov, 2017
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    Mobile Infrastructure and Rural Business Enterprises : Evidence from SIM Registration Mandate in Niger

     
    Annan, Francis; Sanoh, Aly
    Business enterprises and non-agricultural startups in rural economies play crucial roles in ending the vicious cycle of poverty. The propagation of business enterprises are, however, subject to a high degree of institutional frictions and vacuums e.g., in ...
    Business enterprises and non-agricultural startups in rural economies play crucial roles in ending the vicious cycle of poverty. The propagation of business ente ...
    Business enterprises and non-agricultural startups in rural economies play crucial roles in ending the vicious cycle of poverty. The propagation of business enterprises are, however, subject to a high degree of institutional frictions and vacuums e.g., information; but mobile infrastructure which has the externality of flowing inf ...
    Dec, 2017
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    Does Inducing Informal Firms to Formalize Make Sense? : Experimental Evidence from Benin

     
    Benhassine, Najy; McKenzie, David; Pouliquen, Victor; Santini, Massimiliano
    Efforts to bring informal firms into the formal sector are often based on a view that this will bring benefits to the firms themselves, or at least benefit governments through increasing the tax base. A randomized experiment based around the introduction of the entreprenant legal status in Benin is used to test these a ...
    Efforts to bring informal firms into the formal sector are often based on a view that this will bring benefits to the firms themselves, or at least benefit governments through increasing the tax base. ...
    Efforts to bring informal firms into the formal sector are often based on a view that this will bring benefits to the firms themselves, or at least benefit governments through increasing the tax base. A randomized experiment based around the introduction of the entreprenant legal status in Benin is used to test these assumptions, along with supplementary efforts to enhance the presumed benefits of formalizi ...
    Jan, 2018
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    Economy Profile of Sao Tome and Principe

     
    World Bank Group
    Doing Business 2018 is the 15th in a series of annual reports investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. This economy profile presents the Doing Business indicators for Sao Tome and Principe. Doing Business presents quant ...
    Doing Business 2018 is the 15th in a series of annual reports investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. This econ ...
    Doing Business 2018 is the 15th in a series of annual reports investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. This economy profile presents the Doing Business indicators for Sao Tome and Principe. Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulation and the protection of ...
    Nov 01, 2017

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