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Businesses suffered and jobs disappeared across Liberia during the Ebola outbreak, according to research funded by the IGC
Liberia’s economic downturn during the Ebola outbreak was severe, with businesses in Montserrado county – home to the capital Monrovia – especially suffering, shows new research funded by the IGC. According to a new IGC bulletin, 12% of businesses surveyed across Liberia during the peak of the Ebola crisis (September to November 2014) reported to have closed down...
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Publication - Bulletin
The economic impacts of Ebola – Bulletin six (December 2015)
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Publication - Working Paper
Crowdsourcing government accountability: Experimental evidence from Pakistan
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Event
African bank lending channels workshop
IGC Uganda recently held a workshop with policymakers from Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, Mozambique, and Zambia to discuss lending channels in Sub-Saharan Africa. Monetary policy in Sub-Saharan Africa is evolving. The introduction of new technologies such as mobile money, as well as financial deepening is leading to unstable money multipliers and...
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Project
Developing a local content unit for Mozambique
Mozambique’s gas reserves have the potential to transform the country into one of the world’s top energy exporters The challenge now is to generate local jobs as the gas industry grows and matures The report proposes the creation of a ‘Local Content Unit’ within the relevant Ministry The government is currently assessing the scope for...
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The economic impacts of Ebola on firms in Sierra Leone
Katherine Casey (Stanford), Rachel Glennerster (J-PAL), and Tavneet Suri (MIT) have initiated a research project studying the firm-level impact of the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone. Our objective is twofold: first, to bring reliable quantitative data to the policy discussion as the outbreak unfolds in real time; and second, to establish baseline information on the private...
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Markups and capital misallocation: a trade-off? Evidence from the Indian manufacturing sector
This project offers an analysis of the trade-off between capital misallocation and competition (measured by markups) in the context of India’s manufacturing sector. This analysis integrates reduced form empirical evidence with a theoretical model in order to allow for counterfactual analysis of India’s liberalisation episode. The analysis proceeds in three steps. First,...
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Project
The impact of the Ebola outbreak on firms in Liberia
Most of the estimates of the economic impact of Ebola have been either anecdotal or top-down using national accounts. We do not yet have survey data on how individual firms are being hit by the epidemic and how they are responding, including the effect on workers and the orientation of the firms themselves to potentially new business opportunities. We propose collecting...
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Workshop: Firms, Industry and SME Data in India
Industrialisation, firms, employment and micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are important areas of research in understanding the characteristics and success of a national economy Researchers using official statistics on these sectors often face problems in gaining access to appropriate data The matchmaking workshop brought together top...
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Blog post
Entrepreneurial solutions for African development
Across Africa, entrepreneurs are starting every size, and every type, of business. Many countries have resounding declarations about entrepreneurial culture, and want the solutions to poverty and unemployment to be entrepreneurial, but what does this mean in practice? What are the challenges for African entrepreneurs? And what steps – large and small – need to be taken...