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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...
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-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 …
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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...
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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 …
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There is an inherent tension between traditional norms and survey protocols for quantitative data collected in the …
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), focusing on the role of competition and the institutional framework. Using a survey of banks in Argentina and Chile, the paper …
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The objective of this paper is to shed light on current trends and policy challenges in the financing of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by banks in Colombia. The paper is motivated by the well-documented financing gap for SMEs, whose causes are complex and multi-dimensional. Based on...
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With its strong export orientation and emphasis on competitiveness, the Chilean economic model has been the envy of its neighbors for more than a decade. However, there are underlying vulnerabilities. Historically, exports have been concentrated in mining and agriculture, sectors dominated by...
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This paper uses uniquely matched household, enterprise and community survey data from four major regions in rural …
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investigated using a unique matched workers-firms dataset, the Addis Ababa Construction Enterprise Survey. The data are …
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