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Data: Foreign investors under stress: Evidence at the firm level
Emerging market policy makers have been concerned about the financial stability implications of financial globalization. These concerns are focused particularly on behavior under stressed conditions. Do tail events in the home country trigger off extreme responses by foreign investors and is there any asymmetry between the responses of foreign investors to very good versus...
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Blog post
Increasing religious awareness and professional training
The discovery of natural gas triggered violent extremism in Northern Mozambique. Could religious awareness and professional training quell violence? [caption id="attachment_28440" align="alignnone" width="768"] Figure 1: The Economist, Aug 9th 2018.[/caption] There is vast economic and political science literature on conflict and civil wars, which mostly focuses on the...
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Publication - Policy paper
Urban governance institutions: Policy options for fast growing cities
Developing countries today are home to all of the world’s thirty fastest-growing major cities — with sub-Saharan Africa home to twenty-one of these thirty. This rapid growth has made these cities the epicentre for the battle for national prosperity, a struggle whose outcome depends on the policy choices made by city leaders. Policy options which target the...
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Publication - Policy Brief
Women’s mobility and labour force participation: Early evidence from Karachi
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Women’s experiences of agency and mobility in the megacity of Karachi and their labour force participation
Economic growth in South Asia is associated with employment, and improved job quality in particular. However, employment rates in South Asia overtime have remained stubborn and below those in other regions, largely attributed to persistently low female employment and participation rates (Nayar et al. 2012). Female youth labour force participation (LFP) rates in South Asia...
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Natasha Ansari
Natasha is one of the lead researchers on the Value Chains pillar for the Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA) research consortium at the Collective for Social Science Reserach. She has co-authoured the book A Microcredit Alternative in South Asia: Akhuwat’s Experiment (Routledge, 2018). She is also one of the campaign organisers for Girls at...
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Asad Sayeed
Asad has been with the Collective for Social Science Research since its inception, but actively started working as Senior Research Associate in 2003. Previously, Asad has worked as Senior Economist at the Social Policy Development Centre from 1995 to 1997. He was then Director of Research at the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research from 1997 to 2000. In...
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Stella Wanga
Stella is a Contracts Assistant in the IGC’s London Hub, focusing on the contracting process for research projects and core IGC activities. She is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. She has worked as Legal Counsel carrying out various Legal Functions in Kenya and the United Republic of Tanzania, having most...
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Blog post
Building a capable civil service in Liberia: The role of the Performance Management System
Over the past thirty years, Liberia has encountered a mix of challenges, from negotiating civil war and an Ebola epidemic to welcoming the first democratic transition of power in three-quarters of a century. The recently elected Weah administration has made governance one of the four pillars of its ‘Pro-poor Agenda for Prosperity and Development’, including a push to...
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Ignatius A. Geegbae