Pramila Krishnan
Pramila is Professor of Development Economics at the University of Oxford. Her research interests include analysis of household behaviour and rural institutions in developing countries; microeconometric approaches to development economics; household economics and labour economics.
Content by Pramila Krishnan
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Publication - Working Paper
Productivity, shocks, and management practices
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Publication - Policy Brief
Productivity, shocks, and management practices in Ethiopia and Uganda
Ethiopia and Uganda are two land-locked economies dependent on imported inputs for a small but growing manufacturing sector. They have contrasting exchange rate regimes affecting the cost of imports in different ways. Ethiopia uses a crawling peg exchange rate regime while Uganda has a floating exchange rate regime. Currency fluctuations are associated with the...
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Project
The impact of COVID-19 on Ethiopia’s industrial parks: A rapid review
Over the past decade, the government of Ethiopia has pursued a strategy of labour-intensive industrialisation through export-oriented light manufacturing. The strategy is predicated on the use of low-cost labour as a source of competitive advantage within global value chains. For this purpose, the government has encouraged large-scale foreign direct investment (FDI) in the...
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Publication - Policy Brief
Firms in Ethiopia’s industrial parks: COVID-19 impacts, challenges, and government response
The COVID-19 pandemic poses an unprecedented challenge for Ethiopia’s ambitious industrialisation agenda focused on export-oriented light manufacturing. To quantify the impacts of COVID-19 on firms in Ethiopia’s export processing zones, the World Bank Group in cooperation with the Government of Ethiopia administered a phone survey of firms. Survey data suggest...
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Project
Exchange rate shocks and firm behaviour: Evidence from Ethiopia and Uganda
As developing countries, Uganda and Ethiopia frequently face exchange rate shocks. The effect of exchange rate shocks on the performance of firms is not well understood. In Ethiopia, policymakers devalue the local currency to correct misalignment. The effect of such devaluation is of interest to policymakers. Manufacturing firms in developing countries rely on imported...
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Project
Measuring management practices in Ethiopian firms: Module for the CSA manufacturing survey of medium and large enterprises
The project team has already merged survey data from the Central Statistical Authority's (CSA’s) Census of Medium and Large Enterprises with Ethiopian Revenue and Customs Authority’s firm level trade data. This has resulted in a panel data set. This project aims to disentangle fluctuations in supply of material inputs from other constraints. Also, the larger aim is to...
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Publication - Working Paper
Restricting trade and reducing variety: Evidence from Ethiopia
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Publication - Working Paper
Fading choice: Transport costs and variety in consumer goods
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Blog post
Consumer welfare impacts of high transport costs in rural Ethiopia
Access to a variety of manufactured goods reduces in relation to the distance from urban centers. Accordingly, reductions in transport costs increase consumer welfare through higher incomes, lower prices, and increased variety. Transport and consumption in Ethiopia Transport costs reduce consumer welfare, not only through lower incomes and higher prices, but also...
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Project
Fading choice: Market development and the range of goods available across space
A simple measure of market development is the range of products available across space. Current studies of market development focus exclusively on one particular aspect of development: the spatial integration of markets measured by the spatial variation in prices. In contrast, we aim to study the spatial variation in products. This idea derives from an analysis of consumer...
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Blog post
Neighbours and extension Agents in Ethiopia: Who matters more for technology diffusion?
Improving agricultural productivity is seen as vital to economic growth in poor countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa where productivity growth has lagged behind that of other continents. The focus has therefore been on new technologies, particularly the adoption and diffusion of improved seed varieties and the increased use of fertiliser, supported by investments...
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Publication - Working Paper
Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Ethiopia (Working Paper)
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Project
Background paper on Vocational Education in Ethiopia
This report presents a background study of the state of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Ethiopia. Krishnan and Shaorshadze discuss the state of TVET in Ethiopia, as well as the contextual information on education system and economic indicators in Ethiopia as they relate to the TVET implementation and policy. They argue that given the supply-driven...
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Publication - Working Paper
Neighbours and Extension Agents in Ethiopia: Who matters more for technology diffusion? (Working Paper)
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Project
Innovation and diffusion of crops, inputs and techniques: evidence from a 15 year panel survey
Further adoption of fertiliser and improved seeds are key to increased land productivity in Ethiopian agriculture. However, as in much of sub-Saharan Africa, the adoption and diffusion of such technologies has been slow. While supply side factors undoubtedly play a role, in this paper Pramila Krishnan and Manasa Patnam concentrate on the possibility that imperfect...