Caralee McLiesh, Simeon Djankov
Doing Business 2004 is the very first of a series of reports investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. To document the regulation of business and investigate the effect of regulation on such economic outcomes as productivity, unemployment, growth, pove...
David Coady, Margaret Grosh, John Hoddinott
No AccessRegional and Sectoral Studies1 Feb 2013Targeting of Transfers in Developing CountriesReview of Lessons and ExperienceAuthors/Editors: David Coady, Margaret Grosh, John HoddinottDavid Coady, Margaret Grosh, John Hoddinotthttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-5769-7SectionsAboutPDF (1.2 MB) ToolsAdd...
David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff
Management has a large effect on the productivity of medium and large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms, where the majority of the labor force in developing countries works? We develop 26 questions that measure business practices in marketing, stock-keeping, record-keeping, ...
Ganlin Pu, Md. Qamruzzaman, Ahmed Muneeb Mehta, Farah Naz Naqvi et al.
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) survival is critical for economic sustainability due to the multifaceted role of the economy. Thus, halting SMEs operation hurts the aggregate economy. During the present pandemic, SMEs’ sustainability in Bangladesh is under-challenged because of limited market de...
Wayne R. Thirsk
No AccessRegional and Sectoral Studies1 Feb 2013Tax Reform in Developing CountriesAuthors/Editors: Wayne ThirskWayne Thirskhttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-3999-0SectionsAboutPDF (1 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:The eight case-study c...
Livia Alfonsi, Oriana Bandiera, Vittorio Bassi, Robin Burgess et al.
We design a labor market experiment to compare demand‐ and supply‐side policies to tackle youth unemployment, a key issue in low‐income countries. The experiment tracks 1700 workers and 1500 firms over four years to compare the effect of offering workers either vocational training (VT) or firm‐provi...
Rachel Heath
I argue that firms use referrals from current workers to mitigate a moral hazard problem. I develop a model in which referrals relax a limited liability constraint by allowing the firm to punish the referral provider if the recipient has low output. I test the model’s predictions using household sur...
Mohammad Imran Hossain
The Novel Corona Virus (COVID-19) has created tremendous negative impacts on the livelihood of the marginal population in Bangladesh. Many people working in the informal sector have lost their job and income due to the ongoing pandemic. Unemployment and poverty among the people in both urban and rur...
Anthony Heath, J. J. Martin
Abstract The disadvantage experienced in the labour market by the ethnic groups currently in Britain has long been established. This study builds on earlier research by exploring how far religious affiliation can explain these inequalities. Distinguishing the effects of ethnicity and religion is dif...
Lutfun N. Khan Osmani
Abstract This paper attempts to test empirically whether access to micro‐credit can help poor rural women to improve their bargaining power within the household. The empirical measures of women's bargaining power, or empowerment, used in this paper are underpinned by a bargaining model of the househ...
Ahmed Taneem Muzaffar, Iftekharul Huq, Biva Arani Mallik
Street food vending is a prevailing and distinctive part of a large informal sector in Dhaka city, the capital of Bangladesh. The paper attempts to gain insight into the business of street food vendors: highlight the problem areas and identify some key factors that positively affect their sales reve...
Muhammad Shakaib Akram, Aneela Malik, Mahmud Akhter Shareef, M. Awais Shakir Goraya
This study investigates the interrelationships between technological predictors and behavioral mediators in explaining users' continuance intention for online tax filing. Building on information systems (IS) success and IS continuance literature, this study proposes an extended conceptual framework ...
Omar Al Farooque, Tony van Zijl, Keitha Dunstan, Akm Waresul Karim
This paper models the corporate ownership and performance relationship in Bangladesh listed firms using a simultaneous equations approach. Consistent with contemporary literature a “reverse-way” causality relationship between the two is documented. Using an unbalanced pooled sample of 660 firm-years...
Giacomo De Giorgi, Aminur Rahman
Javad Khalilzadeh-Shirazi, Anwar Shah
No AccessStand Alone Books1 Feb 2013Tax Policy in Developing CountriesAuthors/Editors: Javad Khalilzadeh-Shirazi, Anwar ShahJavad Khalilzadeh-Shirazi, Anwar Shahhttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-1990-6SectionsAboutPDF (1.6 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterL...