Learning by Exporting the Case of Mozambican Manufacturing
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In: UNU-WIDER working paper 09/2011; 2011/51
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In: In book: Foreign Aid for Development: Issues, Challenges and the New Agenda, Chapter: Aid, Growth, and Development (chapter 2), Publisher: Oxford University Press: Oxford, Editors: G. Mavrotas, pp.20-53, 2010
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In: In book: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Edition: 2, Chapter: Foreign Aid, Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, Editors: Larry Blume, Steven Durlauf 2008
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In: Economic Development and Cultural Change, Band 54, Heft 4, S. 995-997
ISSN: 1539-2988
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In: Vision. Det frie forum for debat 01/2006, Copenhagen 2006
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In: The European journal of development research
ISSN: 1743-9728
AbstractTaking advantage of the 2019/2020 Mozambican household budget survey, in the field both before and during the first phases of the Covid-19 pandemic, we assess the impact of Covid-19 on welfare in 2020, aiming to disentangle this impact from the effect of other shocks. Comparing a number of welfare metrics, and applying propensity score matching and inverse probability weighted regression adjustment approaches, we find that consumption levels are significantly lower and poverty rates substantially higher during the first phases of Covid-19 than in the pre-Covid-19 period. Moreover, the impact was greater in urban areas and accordingly in the more urbanised southern region. Non-food expenditures suffered relatively more than food expenditures, likely a coping strategy, while the impact on consumption levels was greater for people working in the secondary and tertiary sectors than for workers in the primary sector, mainly agriculture. Stunting among under-5 children also suffered. Only a limited number of countries have actual, collected in-person, survey data that span across the initial phases of the Covid-19 pandemic. Thus, the present analysis adds value to our understanding of the welfare consequences of Covid-19 in a low-income context, where automatic social safety nets were not in place during the early phases of the pandemic. More specifically, it helps in assessing the results of previous welfare impact simulations, compared to real data. Even though our main findings are broadly in line with existing estimates based on simulations or phone surveys, important differences between the predictions and the actual results emerge. We conclude that it is critically important for Mozambique and its development partners to develop stronger and more targeted policies and tools to respond to temporary shocks.
In: The journal of development studies, Band 58, Heft 7, S. 1363-1382
ISSN: 1743-9140
Using a unique panel survey of enterprises, we examine the relationship between four categories of formalization and firm productivity. We carry out one- and two-step productivity estimations whose robustness we check with matching and doubly robust estimators. The only formalization category that appears to be significantly associated with productivity is tax formalization, i.e. a firm's decision to pay taxes. This positive association only holds for firms that were already more productive and bigger before formalizing than other informal firms. The reason for the insignificance of the remaining three categories is likely to be the insignificant association between formalization and potential benefits of formalization, such as more access to credit, employees, and investments. High taxes and fees linked to formalization seem to outweigh the few to non-existent intermediate benefits of formalization.
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In: Review of Development Economics, Band 21, Heft 2, S. 285-303
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