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Vittorio Bassi

  • Assistant Professor of Economics
  • University of Southern California

Roles

IGC Staff

Researchers

Lead academics

Vittorio Bassi is the Lead Academic for IGC Uganda.

He is currently an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California and his primary research interests are in labour markets and productivity in developing countries.

Projects

Targeting consulting services to high-growth entrepreneurs

Golvine de Rochambeau, Vittorio Bassi
Project
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Misallocation or mismeasurement? Collecting new panel data to improve production function estimation

Vittorio Bassi, Monica Morlacco, Tommaso Porzio, Esau Tugume 15 Jan 2024
Project
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Recovery from the COVID-19 shock and the informal labour market in urban Uganda

Vittorio Bassi, Tommaso Porzio, Ritwika Sen, Esau Tugume, Jung Hyuk Lee, Alessandra Peter 31 Mar 2022
Project
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Cross-sectoral movements of labour in a low-income country: Evidence from Uganda

Vittorio Bassi, Tommaso Porzio 3 Jan 2022
Project

Vocational training, on-the-job training, and resilience to COVID-19: Evidence from Uganda

Vittorio Bassi 31 Mar 2021
Project
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Special economic zones in Uganda: An impact analysis

Vittorio Bassi, Priya Manwaring, Matthieu Teachout 31 May 2021
Project

COVID-19 and the value of relationships in informal economies

Vittorio Bassi, Esau Tugume, Ritwika Sen, Tommaso Porzio 28 Feb 2021
Project

The long-term impact of vocational training and job search assistance for unemployed youth: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Uganda

Oriana Bandiera, Vittorio Bassi, Robin Burgess, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman, Anna Vitali 30 Sep 2018
Project

Firm-level technology adoption and investment in training

Vittorio Bassi, Tommaso Porzio, Esau Tugume, Ritwika Sen, Raffaela Muoio 30 Sep 2018
Project

Understanding productivity dispersion: Evidence from a new survey of manufacturing firms in Uganda

Vittorio Bassi, Tommaso Porzio, Raffaela Muoio, Robert Mpiira 30 Sep 2018
Project

All contributions

Bergquist et al Final report March 2024 cover

Creating comparative advantage: Identifying information and technology constraints facing SMEs in supplying large firms in Rwanda

Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Jie Bai, Vittorio Bassi, Ignacio Marra de Artiñano, Christian Lippitsch
Project report
Bassi et al. Working Paper September 2024

Self-employment within the firm

Vittorio Bassi, Jung Hyuk Lee, Alessandra Peter, Tommaso Porzio, Ritwika Sen, Esau Tugume
Working paper
TotalEnergies employee working on a well pad at Murchison Falls National Park

Aiding the search for good jobs: Evidence from Uganda

Oriana Bandiera, Vittorio Bassi, Robin Burgess, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman, Anna Vitali
Blog
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Vocational training and resilience to the COVID-19 shock in Uganda

Livia Alfonsi, Vittorio Bassi, Imran Rasul
Policy brief
COVID-19 and Ugandan SMEs: Impacts and speed of recovery

COVID-19 and Ugandan SMEs: Impacts and speed of recovery

Livia Alfonsi, Oriana Bandiera, Vittorio Bassi, Robin Burgess, Imran Rasul, Ottavia Anna Veroux, Anna Vitali
Policy brief
Bassi et al Policy brief December 2022

Exposure to air pollution for small firms in African cities

Vittorio Bassi, Matthew Kahn, Nancy Lozano Gracia, Tommaso Porzio, Jeanne Sorin
Policy brief
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Building economic resilience through vocational training: Evidence from Uganda

24 February 2023 14:00-15:00
Past Webinar

Searching for customers, finding pollution

Vittorio Bassi, Matthew Kahn, Nancy Lozano Gracia, Tommaso Porzio, Jeanne Sorin
Working paper
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Recovery from the COVID-19 shock and the informal labour market in urban Uganda

Vittorio Bassi, Jung Hyuk Lee, Alessandra Peter, Tommaso Porzio, Ritwika Sen, Esau Tugume
Policy brief
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Recovery from the COVID-19 shock and the informal labour market in urban Uganda

Vittorio Bassi, Jung Hyuk Lee, Alessandra Peter, Tommaso Porzio, Ritwika Sen, Esau Tugume
Project report
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The resilience of informal labour markets

Vittorio Bassi, Tommaso Porzio, Ritwika Sen, Esau Tugume
Project report

The resilience of informal labour markets: Insights from Uganda

Vittorio Bassi, Tommaso Porzio, Ritwika Sen, Esau Tugume
Blog

Vocational training, on-the-job training, and resilience to the COVID-19 shock

Livia Alfonsi, Oriana Bandiera, Vittorio Bassi, Robin Burgess, Imran Rasul, Anna Vitali
Project report
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The impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on SMEs and employment relationships in Uganda

Vittorio Bassi, Tommaso Porzio, Ritwika Sen, Esau Tugume
Policy brief

The impact of COVID-19 on Ugandan firms: Evidence from recent surveys and policy actions for supporting private sector recovery

Livia Alfonsi, Vittorio Bassi, Priya Manwaring, Peter Ngategize, John Oryema, Miri Stryjan, Anna Vitali
Policy brief

Understanding productivity dispersion: Evidence from a new survey of manufacturing firms in Uganda

Vittorio Bassi, Raffaela Muoio, Joshua Mutambi, Tommaso Porzio, Ritwika Sen, Esau Tugume
Policy brief
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Understanding productivity dispersion: Evidence from a new survey of manufacturing firms in Uganda

Vittorio Bassi, Raffaela Muoio, Joshua Mutambi, Tommaso Porzio, Ritwika Sen, Esau Tugume
Project report