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    Moving Forward with ALMPs : Active Labor Policy and the Changing Nature of Labor Markets (2019)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Series Statement: Social Protection and Labor Discussion Papers
    Abstract: Disruptive factors related to technology, market integration, and social and demographic change imply upcoming changes in the needs of the labor force. This study reviews the current approach to active labor market policies (ALMPs) globally and, based on the evidence and accounting for these factors, discusses desirable attributes for a resilient national active labor policy system, which covers universal access, tailored beneficiary service bundles, private sector linkages, using available technology, demand-driven skills training, measuring performance, social enterprises, and labor market demand side policy. Considering these attributes, we propose a public sector approach focused on supporting service providers rather than direct service provision. The approach revolves around: (i) Active Labor Policies (ALPs), referring to public expenditures on services aimed at improving the labor force's engagement in productive economic activity; (ii) Active Labor Policy Providers (ALPPs), referring to the entities that implement activities associated with ALPs; and (iii) the ALPP sector, referring to the set of existing ALPPs in a country. We also highlight potential actions by governments to transition into this model, such as contracting services out; service brokerage; service provider registries, accreditation, and incentives; integrated monitoring and evaluation systems; and aligning supply and demand side policy
    DOI: 10.1596/33081
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    Export Quality in Advanced and Developing Economies : Evidence from a New Data Set (2017)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (42 p)
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Henn, Christian Export Quality in Advanced and Developing Economies: Evidence from a New Data Set
    Abstract: This paper develops new estimates of export quality, based on bilateral data, which are far more extensive than previous efforts. The data cover 166 countries and hundreds of products over 1962-2014. The analysis finds that quality upgrading is particularly rapid during the early stages of development. There is significant cross-country heterogeneity in the growth rate of quality. Within any given product line, quality converges over time to the world frontier. Institutional quality, liberal trade policies, foreign direct investment inflows, and human capital all promote quality upgrading, although their impacts vary across sectors. The results suggest that reducing barriers to entry into new sectors can allow economies to benefit from rapid quality convergence over time
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-8196
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    Allocating Subsidies for Private Investments to Maximize Jobs Impacts (2020)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Abstract: This paper develops a general framework to allocate subsidies to private investments in the presence of jobs-linked externalities (JLEs). JLEs emerge when wages exceed the opportunity cost of labor (labor externalities), or when there are social gains from creating better jobs for some classes of worker, such as women or youth (social externalities). Like all externalities, JLEs create a gap between private and social rates of return. Investments can be socially profitable (once the corresponding JLEs are internalized) but the private returns may be too low for the firm to go ahead. JLEs help to explain why many developing countries see insufficient investment in projects that would reallocate labor towards better jobs. The concept of JLEs is well established in economic literature, but there is a need for better operational approaches to address them. Like other externalities, JLEs can be corrected using a variety of possible subsidies (such as: grants, subsidized infrastructure, credit, training, technical assistance and tax exemptions). But doing this efficiently and at scale this requires mechanisms to (a) estimate the value of the externality and (b) discover the amount of subsidy needed to trigger the private investment. This paper shows that the optimal way to allocate subsidies to offset JLEs is through a competitive bidding process which selects projects based on the estimated amount of JLEs per dollar of subsidy. The bidding process provides an incentive to investors to reveal the subsidy needed for a project to become privately viable. The authors show that the proposed approach maximizes the jobs impacts of a given amount of fiscal resources that has been allotted to support better jobs outcomes
    DOI: 10.1596/33868
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    Improving Smallholders' Jobs Through Agribusiness Linkages : Findings of the Mozambique Agricultural Aggregator Pilot (MAAP) (2022)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Other papers
    Keywords: Agricultural Knowledge and Information Systems ; Agricultural Research ; Agriculture ; Agriculture and Farming Systems ; Smallholders
    Abstract: Agricultural firms in developing countries may decide to implement aggregation schemes, typically through contract farming arrangements (CFAs). The firms' rationale for engaging in aggregation is likely to be based on their own anticipated financial gains. But research shows that CFAs can also increase the welfare of their smallholder participants (independent growers). When growers benefit and the CFA terms are set by a firm's profit-maximizing decisions, the benefits deriving to growers can be seen as "jobs externalities" (i.e. labor income gains to third parties that are triggered by the firms' actions in expanding the CFAs). The existence of such gains also implies that the aggregation scheme is helping to address market coordination failures by facilitating increased agricultural commercialization. A full appraisal of the impact of CFAs should therefore integrate the analysis of the firms' and growers' costs and returns. In this study, we assess the costs and returns to firms and growers from the expansion of seven existing aggregation schemes in Mozambique, using simultaneously gathered data from the firms operating the CFAs, the corresponding CFA participant farmers, and comparable nonparticipant farmers. As far as we know, this is the first attempt at integrated analysis of the impact on firms and independent growers of the expansion of CFAs. Our approach combines impact evaluation and cost-benefit analysis techniques, and yields estimates both of the financial returns to firms and of the CFAs' full social returns (including the gains to the growers and to society at large). In most cases, we found that the growers gained more than the firms in the short term from the expansion of these schemes. In fact, growers' incomes increased (relative to the comparators) in most of the schemes we analyzed. However, only half the schemes generated profits for the firms themselves in the three year time window of this study. This poor short-term financial return to the aggregator firms may explain why CFAs have expanded less than would seem to be justified when the gains to growers are factored inches These findings might justify a public subsidy to catalyze the expansion of CFA schemes that are expected to be financially viable in the medium term. We estimated the subsidy amount that would be needed to raise the firms' private returns to the market cost of capital (a benchmark for financial viability from the firms' perspective). We found that the required subsidy was normally modest: it averaged less than 25 per cent of the firms' expenditures on supporting new growers. Overall, our results support the case for the selective use of public resources to catalyze an expansion of aggregator systems in Mozambique and similar economies, and thereby improve smallholder growers' welfare
    DOI: 10.1596/37650
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    Immanente Kritik heute : Grundlagen und Aktualität eines sozialphilosophischen Begriffs (2014)
    Bielefeld :transcript,
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    ISBN: 3-8376-2581-8 , 978-3-8376-2581-3
    Language: German
    Pages: 197 Seiten.
    Series Statement: Edition Moderne Postmoderne
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 100
    RVK:
    CC 7750
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    MR 5350
    Keywords: Kritik. ; Immanenz. ; Sozialphilosophie. ; Immanenzphilosophie. ; Kritische Theorie. ; Konferenzschrift ; Kritik ; Immanenz ; Sozialphilosophie ; Immanenzphilosophie ; Sozialphilosophie ; Kritische Theorie
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    Crítica inmanente de la sociedad / (2020)
    Barcelona :Anthropos,
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    ISBN: 978-84-17556-30-3
    Language: Spanish
    Pages: 285 Seiten : , Illustrationen.
    Edition: Primera edición
    Series Statement: Pensamiento crítico, pensamiento utópico 236
    Series Statement: Pensamiento crítico, pensamiento utópico
    RVK:
    CC 7700
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    MS 1290
    Keywords: Gesellschaftskritik. ; Kritische Theorie. ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Gesellschaftskritik ; Kritische Theorie
    Note: Literaturangaben
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