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Increasing productivity growth in middle income countries
Abdychev, Aidar; Jirasavetakul, La-Bhus Fah; Jonelis, Andrew - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010479340
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Entry Regulation and Formalization of Microenterprises in Developing Countries
Bruhn, Miriam; McKenzie, David - 2013
The majority of microenterprises in most developing countries remain informal despite more than a decade of reforms aimed at making it easier and cheaper for them to formalize. This paper summarizes the evidence on the effects of entry reforms and related policy actions to promote firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560112
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Talk or Text? : Evaluating Response Rates by Remote Survey Method during COVID-19
Amaral, Sofia; Dinarte Diaz, Lelys; Dominguez, Patricio; … - 2022
-19 lockdown, this study randomly selected about 600 adults in El Salvador to survey using two different tools: telephone … interviews or a self-completion survey via WhatsApp. The findings show that phone-based surveys increase the rate of survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254942
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Private But Misunderstood? : Evidence on Measuring Intimate Partner Violence via Self-Interviewing in Rural Liberia and Malawi
Aggarwal, Shilpa; Jeong, Dahyeon; Kumar, Naresh; Park, … - 2022
Women may under-report intimate partner violence (IPV) due to several social and psychological factors. This study conducts a measurement experiment in rural Liberia and Malawi in which women were asked IPV questions via self-interviewing (SI) or face-to-face interviewing. About a third of women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013545349
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Misunderestimating Corruption
Kraay, Aart; Murrell, Peter - 2013
officials. Yet it is well known that survey respondents are reticent to tell the truth about activities to which social and … legal stigma are attached, implying a downward bias in survey-based estimates of corruption. This paper develops a method to … combination of conventional and random-response survey questions. The responses to these different types of questions reflect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560093
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Interviewer Effects in Subjective Survey Questions
Himelein, Kristen - 2015
There is an inherent tension between traditional norms and survey protocols for quantitative data collected in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012564360
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Do fiscal rules cause fiscal discipline over the electoral cycle?
Eklou, Kodjovi M.; Joanis, Marcelin - 2019
This paper estimates the causal effect of fiscal rules on political budget cycles in a sample of 67 developing countries over the period 1985-2007. We exploit the geographical pattern in the adoption of fiscal rules to isolate an exogenous source of variation in the adoption of national fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012155128
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Some policy lessons from country applications of the DIG and DIGNAR models
Gurara, Daniel Zerfu; Melina, Giovanni; Zanna, Luis-Felipe - 2019
Over the past seven years, the DIG and DIGNAR models have complemented the IMF and World Bank debt sustainability framework (DSF) analysis, over 65 country applications. They have provided useful insights in the context of program and surveillance work, based on qualitative and quantitative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012009611
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Remittance concentration and volatility : evidence from 72 developing countries
Hosny, Amr - 2020
This paper contributes to the literature by introducing the role of geographic concentration of the source of remittances. Specifically, using data over 2010-2015 for 72 developing countries, we study the impact of (i) large remittances and (ii) the geographic concentration of the source of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252729
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The role of e-government in promoting Foreign Direct Investment inflows
Al-Sadiq, Ali J. - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012487235