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Event
First ILO-CEPR-IGC-UNIGE Conference on labour markets in developing countries
The conference provides a forum for high-quality work in labour and development economics and a platform for researchers and policy makers to exchange knowledge and to engage in policy discussions. The event brings together around 40 economists for a period of two days. The Conference counts with the presentation of 9 papers from experts around the world. It also...
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Data: High skilled and low skilled emigration from low income countries
We analyze location choices of foreign-born science and engineering students receiving PhDs from US universities. Foreign students who stay in the United States are positively selected on observables. They tend to stay in the United States during periods of strong US economic growth and during periods of weak home country economic growth. Foreign students from higher-income...
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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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Publication - Working Paper
From bilateral trade to centralised markets: A search model for commodity exchanges in Africa
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Project
Managing agricultural risk in Mozambique
Mozambique is primarily an agricultural economy with 81% of its population engaged in agriculture, which accounts for 32% of its GDP. “There are now 400 extreme weather events every year, four times as many as in 1970” (The Economist, 2017). The direct costs of these extreme events in the form of lost lives, assets, and habitat are evident. For farmers in...
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Publication - Project Report
Managing agricultural risk in Mozambique
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Publication - Working Paper
Industrial relations and workplace communication in Myanmar garment sector
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Publication - Policy note
Parceling out prosperity? An impact evaluation of natural resource sector investments in Liberia
Governments in West Africa increasingly require foreign investors to build and maintain public infrastructure in exchange for rights to extract natural resources on their land. Liberia has adopted this strategy to fill an infrastructure gap after the civil war and build ‘spatial development corridors’ alongside concessionaire-sponsored infrastructure. This...
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News Item
IGC’s Oriana Bandiera and Imran Rasul win prestigious Yrjö Jahnsson Award
The Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation and European Economic Association (EEA) are awarding the prestigious Yrjö Jahnsson Award in Economics to Oriana Bandiera, IGC Steering Group Member and Research Programme Director for State (LSE), and Imran Rasul, IGC Research Programme Director for Firms (University College London). The award, considered the most prestigious award in...
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Blog post
The Chinese are here: An analysis of import penetration and firm performance in Sub-Saharan Africa
In the early 1990s, most of the imports into Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) originated mainly from Western economies such as the US, UK, France, and Germany. 25 years later, the share of imports from the UK had decreased to 2.3% in 2015 from 13.9% in 1990, while that of the US to 4.6% in 2015 from 13% in 1992. On the other hand, China’s share of total imports in SSA rose to...