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Blog Post
Don’t Let Development Finance Institutions Water Down Principles on Subsidizing Private Companies
Charles Kenny
November 09, 2018
In my last blog post on the IDA Private Sector Window, I noted the strong principles on subsidies to the private sector that were agreed by the heads of the multilateral development banks (MDBs) in 2012 as part of the Multilateral Development Bank Principles to Support Sustainable Pri...
Blog Post
Redesigning the IDA Private Sector Window for Impact: Some Principles and Potential Practices
Charles Kenny
November 05, 2018
I have previously suggested that the current design of the $2.5 billion World Bank/IDA Private Sector Window (PSW) seemed an inefficient use of scarce aid resources, didn’t follow the World Bank’s own guidance on disclosure and design of subsidies to the private secto...
BRIEFS
How Global Businesses Can Improve Refugee Labor Market Access—and Why They Should
October 09, 2018
Many of the world’s 25 million refugees spend years struggling to provide for themselves or contribute fully to their host economies because they are legally barred from working or owning businesses. Granting refugees formal labor market access unlocks a range of benefits—for refugees, h...
WORKING PAPERS
The Economic and Fiscal Effects of Granting Refugees Formal Labor Market Access - Working Paper 496
Michael Clemens et al.
October 09, 2018
There are over 25 million refugees in the world today and most of them—especially those in developing countries—do not have formal labor market access (LMA). Granting refugees formal LMA has the potential to create substantial benefits for refugees and their hosts.
BRIEFS
The Economic and Fiscal Effects of Granting Refugees Formal Labor Market Access (Brief)
Michael Clemens et al.
October 09, 2018
Refugees can be immense economic contributors to the host communities where they settle, but to maximize their contributions, refugees need formal labor market access.
Blog Post
Racers, Plodders, and Strugglers: How Do African Businesses Respond to Unreliable Electricity?
Vijaya Ramachandran
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Todd Moss
August 20, 2018
While energy advocates have mostly focused on the 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa that lack access to electricity at home, the region’s power shortages are especially damaging to firms. Companies across the continent suffer from unreliable power supplies, affecting productivity, emplo...
WORKING PAPERS
How Do African Firms Respond to Unreliable Power? Exploring Firm Heterogeneity Using K-Means Clustering - Working Paper 493
Vijaya Ramachandran et al.
August 20, 2018
While previous studies have found a positive relationship between the reliability of power and firm growth, we find that such a clear relationship seems not to prevail. In other words, some firms are able to cope with an unreliable supply of power while many others do not.