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Job quality, health and productivity : an evidence-based framework for analysis

Saint-Martin, Anne; Inanc, Hande; Prinz, Christopher - 2018

The nature, content and milieu of work – i.e. the quality of the working environment – matter in many ways for people, firms and society as a whole. There is a great deal of evidence to show clear associations between job quality and the health of workers, their ability to successfully...

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Returns to different forms of job related training : factoring in informal learning

Fialho, Priscilla; Quintini, Glenda; Vandeweyer, Marieke - 2019

%. Work environments which apply high performance work organisation practices – i.e. where workers have more autonomy and work …

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Teaming up with large R&D investors : good or bad for knowledge production and diffusion?

Amoroso, Sara; Vannuccini, Simone - 2019

appropriation capabilities could hinder the overall performance of such collaborations. In this paper, we study the role of top R …&D investors in the performance of publicly funded R&D consortia (in terms of number of patents and publications). Using a unique … R&D leaders hinders the innovative performance of the funded projects, both in terms of patents and publications. In …

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Transition finance country study Viet Nam : on the threshold of transition

Kim, Jieun; Poensgen, Konstantin - 2019

Based on the “ABC” approach targeted to assess all available sources of financing (official development finance, private investment, domestic resources, and remittances), the Viet Nam country pilot study explores the challenges of transition finance in a middle-income country in the...

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Incentives and constraints of informal trade between Nigeria and its neighbours

Hoffmann, Leena Koni; Melly, Paul - 2018

The scale of unrecorded trade across the border between Nigeria, the region’s biggest economy and market, and its francophone neighbours is particularly high. Despite providing economic incentives, informal trade entails costs, complications and sometimes risks. This paper explores how policy...

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What makes Mexicans happy?

Dugain, Valéry; Olaberriá, Eduardo - 2015

The growing literature studying the determinants of subjective wellbeing find that Mexicans report, on average, levels of life satisfaction that are above what would be predicted by the available objective measures of well-being. This paradox raises the following question: Are the drivers of...

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Fostering inclusive growth in Turkey by promoting structural change in the business sector

Gönenç, Rauf; Röhn, Oliver; Koen, Vincent; … - 2014

Turkey’s business sector dynamism has underpinned broad-based and inclusive growth in the 2000s. However, the business sector is highly segmented, with a relatively small core of modern high-productivity corporations, and myriad small, less formal and low-productivity entities. This hampers...

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Export controls and competitiveness in African mining and minerals processing industries

Fliess, Barbara A.; Idsardi, Ernst; Rossouw, Riaan - 2017

calculated tracking over 20 years the relative global performance of the local mining and processing industries, for the specific … may have undermined the overall performance of the industries in some of the cases studied because the relative export … performance of the mined minerals deteriorated. …

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Financing for stability in the post-2015 era

Poole, Lydia - 2018

This study and its associated guidance contribute to advancing thinking and understanding about one of the most significant challenges that the international community faces in fragile contexts: how to provide the right financing. The paper summarises new and emerging instruments and approaches...

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Financing for stability : guidance for practitioners

Poole, Lydia; Scott, Rachel - 2018

This guidance outlines the process for developing financing strategies for fragile contexts: financing for stability. The process includes the concrete steps to take to deliver the financing strategy, accompanied by financing principles, and a range of tactical investments, that allow financing...

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