How do small formal and informal firms in Egypt compare? An analysis of firm characteristics and implications for formalization efforts [0.03%]
埃及正式企业与非正式企业的异同：基于企业特征的分析及其对正规化努力的影响
Caroline Krafft,Ragui Assaad,Khandker Wahedur Rahman et al.
Caroline Krafft et al.
Formalizing firms can potentially increase the tax base, expand safety and social protections for workers, create good jobs, and promote firm growth. However, the costs and processes of formality may be too challenging for some firms to bea...
Evaluating the effectiveness of labor market interventions on reducing the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic [0.03%]
评估劳动力市场干预措施在减轻COVID-19大流行影响方面的有效性
Ceyhun Elgin,Colin Williams,Gamze Öz Yalaman
Ceyhun Elgin
This paper evaluates whether different labor market policy interventions taken in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have been effective in reducing its adverse impacts. We construct a database covering 165 countries and 39 labor market inte...
On the economic impacts of COVID-19: A text mining literature analysis [0.03%]
基于文本挖掘的COVID-19经济影响文献分析
Hugo S Gonçalves,Sérgio Moro
Hugo S Gonçalves
The COVID-19 outbreak has affected everyday lives worldwide. As governments started to implement confinement and business closure measures, the economic impact was felt by entire societies immediately. The urgency of such a theme has led re...
Effects of COVID-19 restrictions on mechanization service providers and mechanization equipment retailers: Insights from phone surveys in Myanmar [0.03%]
基于缅甸电话调查的新冠肺炎限制措施对农业机械服务提供者和农机销售商的影响分析
Hiroyuki Takeshima,Ian Masias,Myat Thida Win et al.
Hiroyuki Takeshima et al.
Agrifood sector mechanization service providers (MSP) and mechanization equipment retailers (MER) have increasingly become the providers of mechanical technologies for smallholders in developing countries, including Myanmar. Evidence remain...
Pandemics and technology engagement: New evidence from m-Health intervention during COVID-19 in India [0.03%]
新冠疫情下的公共卫生干预：印度手机健康计划的经验教训
Sawan Rathi,Anindya S Chakrabarti,Chirantan Chatterjee et al.
Sawan Rathi et al.
Information provision for social welfare via cheap technological media is now a widely available tool used by policymakers. Often, however, an ample supply of information does not translate into high consumption of information due to variou...
Financial inclusion and education: An empirical study of financial inclusion in the face of the pandemic emergency due to Covid-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean [0.03%]
金融包容与教育：一项有关拉美及加勒比地区新冠疫情紧急状况下的金融包容性的实证研究
Amirreza Kazemikhasragh,Marianna Vanessa Buoni Pineda
Amirreza Kazemikhasragh
Financial inclusion and education contribute to a country's development and economic growth. However, despite the significant efforts being made to increase access to financial products for women, a high percentage still do not have access ...
Poverty and vulnerability in Mozambique: An analysis of dynamics and correlates in light of the Covid-19 crisis using synthetic panels [0.03%]
莫桑比克的贫困与脆弱性：基于新冠肺炎危机的动态及关联的合成面板分析
Vincenzo Salvucci,Finn Tarp
Vincenzo Salvucci
This study aims at providing new insights into poverty, vulnerability, and their correlates in Mozambique, applying synthetic panels techniques and expanding on earlier analyses. Our results suggest that there is a high degree of poverty im...
Understanding poverty dynamics in Ethiopia: Implications for the likely impact of COVID-19 [0.03%]
理解埃塞俄比亚的贫困动态：对新冠疫情潜在影响的意义
Tseday Jemaneh Mekasha,Finn Tarp
Tseday Jemaneh Mekasha
We aim at identifying vulnerable groups that face a higher risk of falling into poverty due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Applying a synthetic panel data approach, our analysis of poverty and vulnerability transitions during the pre-COVID perio...
Hai-Anh Dang,Peter Lanjouw,Elise Vrijburg
Hai-Anh Dang
India has been hard-hit by the Covid-19 pandemic. The virus has exacted a heavy toll in terms of lives lost and deteriorating health outcomes. The economic consequences of the pandemic have been similarly grim. In this paper we attempt an i...
Peter F Lanjouw,Finn Tarp
Peter F Lanjouw
This symposium issue speaks to the topic of poverty dynamics and vulnerability during an unusual, unexpected and damaging global pandemic. We provide here an introduction and overview to the symposium. ...