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Multimedia Item - Video
Nick Bloom: Do management interventions last?
How does improving management practices improve firm performance? Nick Bloom shares research results from India, which show that introducing management practices to textile firms had lasting impact several years on.
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Publication - Project Memo
Management in Pakistan: Evidence from Sindh, Khyber-Paktunkhawa, and Baluchistan
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Publication - Project Report
Scarcity at the end of the month: First results from a field experiment in Bangladesh
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Publication - Project Report
Growth policy, agglomeration, and (the lack of) competition
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Blog post
Barriers to labour migration in Bangladesh’s garment sector
A rigorous randomised controlled trial (RCT) impact study shows how a targeted training-programme, stipend and on-the-job training (OJT) intervention may have a significant effect on worker participation in Bangladesh’s ready-made garments (RMG) sector. Interestingly, training is only effective in increasing participation in the sector when it is bundled with a stipend,...
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Event
IGC panel - REPOA annual research conference
The IGC presented a panel discussion at the REPOA annual research conference on March 30 in Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania). The overall theme of this year's conference was “Institutions and Industrialization”. The Tanzania PM was the guest of honour and policy makers, politicians, research donor partners and other senior civil servants were also present. IGC...
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Event
Illegal mining in Ghana
Illegal mining operations are destroying the farmlands, forests, and water bodies in Ghana. The general public and academia are calling for a concerted effort to rid the country of illegal mining activities and to restore the abandoned mining sites across the country. However, in order to formulate and implement measures to effectively address the problem, there is...
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Blog post
Drivers for diversification: Firm productivity and export growth
During the past decade of relatively high copper prices, Zambia enjoyed high GDP growth rates but employment growth has been inadequate and narrowly concentrated. Growth rates have declined sharply since 2014 due in large part to declining copper prices which reduced exports and foreign exchange earnings while putting pressure on exchange rates. Given these developments,...
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Blog post
Regional value chains: Enhancing productivity in East Africa
In partnership with the IGC, Duke University’s Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness (CGGC) reveals the potential for regional integration to strengthen value chains and improve productivity in Rwanda and Uganda. Despite recent regional improvements in poverty reduction and economic growth rates in East Africa, firm productivity in the region remains low....
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Event
IGC-SCID Conference on firms, trade, and development 2016
The IGC and Stanford’s Center for International Development (SCID) hosted their annual two-day conference at Stanford on 3-4 November 2016. The conference brought together some of the world’s foremost researchers on firms, trade, and development with the aim of furthering the knowledge frontier and generating interest for the research agenda. This year, the...