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  • Masaki, Takaaki  (4)
  • Washington, D.C : The World Bank  (4)
  • Washington, DC : World Bank, Development Research Group, Finance
  • Social Protections and Labor  (4)
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    Mobile Broadband Internet, Poverty and Labor Outcomes in Tanzania (2021)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (52 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Print Version: Bahia, Kalvin Mobile Broadband Internet, Poverty and Labor Outcomes in Tanzania
    Keywords: Broadband ; Consumption ; Employment and Unemployment ; Inequality ; Information and Communication Technologies ; Information Technology ; Internet Access ; Labor Force Participation ; Poverty Reduction ; Social Protections and Labor ; Wages, Compensation and Benefits ; Welfare
    Abstract: What are the impacts of expanding mobile broadband coverage on poverty, household consumption and labor market outcomes in developing countries? Who benefits from improved coverage of mobile internet? To respond to these questions, this paper applies a difference-in-differences estimation using panel household survey data combined with geospatial information on the rollout of mobile broadband coverage in Tanzania. The results reveal that being covered by 3G networks has a large positive effect on total household consumption and poverty reduction, driven by positive impacts on labor market outcomes. Working age individuals living in areas covered by mobile internet witnessed an increase in labor force participation, wage employment, and non-farm self-employment, and a decline in farm employment. These effects vary by age, gender and skill level. Younger and more skilled men benefit the most through higher labor force participation and wage employment, while high-skilled women benefit from transitions from self-employed farm work into non-farm employment
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9749
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    Demographic and Spatial Disparities in Labor Market Outcomes within the Kinshasa Urban Landscape (2021)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (31 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Print Version: Batana, Yele Maweki Demographic and Spatial Disparities in Labor Market Outcomes within the Kinshasa Urban Landscape
    Keywords: Accessibility ; Demographics ; Employment and Unemployment ; Jobs ; Labor Market ; Social Protections and Labor ; Spatial Analysis ; Unemployment ; Urban Poverty
    Abstract: This paper examines the labor market and jobs in urban Kinshasa, by drawing on a recently collected household survey and other data sets. It particularly focuses on labor supply and employment patterns, job characteristics, and their spatial nexus. The analysis first shows that female and young workers are more likely to experience unemployment and underemployment than other workers in Kinshasa. Second, the availability of good quality jobs is still limited in Kinshasa. Third, in addition to the scarcity of good jobs, which are concentrated in the city core, poor accessibility due to the limited connective infrastructure and transport system further reduces job opportunities for people living in the outskirts
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9856
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    Lake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum : Technical Paper 3. Estimating the Spillover Economic Effects of Foreign Conflict - Evidence from Boko Haram (2021)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Country Economic Memorandum
    Keywords: Armed Conflict ; Conflict ; Conflict and Development ; Inequality ; Labor Markets ; Macroeconomics and Economic Growth ; Migration ; Poverty Reduction ; Social Protections and Labor ; Trade
    Abstract: Violent conflicts present a formidable threat to regional economies. Throughout the world, border regions in many countries are possibly impacted by the cross-border economic effects of regional insurgencies in neighboring countries or national state failures, id est "bad neighbors". This raises two questions. First, what is the magnitude of the spill-over economic effects of foreign conflict and what are the channels through which they operate Second, what policies can governments adopt in the potentially exposed regions to mitigate such spill-over effects. In this paper, we adopt a difference-in-difference (DiD) framework leveraging the unexpected rise of the Boko Haram insurgency in Northeastern Nigeria in 2009 to study its economic effects in neighboring areas in Cameroon, Chad and Niger that were not directly targeted by Boko Haram activities. We find strong cross-border economic effects that are likely driven by reduced trade activities, not the diffusion of conflict. Factors of local economic resilience to this foreign conflict shock then include trade diversification and political and economic securitization. More generally, conflicts, if they have regional economic effects, may necessitate regional responses
    DOI: 10.1596/36574
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    Horn of Africa Regional Economic Memorandum : Overview (2021)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Country Economic Memorandum
    Keywords: Access and Equity in Basic Education ; Access To Markets ; Agriculture ; Education ; Human Capital ; Infrastructure ; Job Creation ; Labor Markets ; Livestock and Animal Husbandry ; Living Standards ; Social Protections and Labor ; Trade Facilitation ; Urbanization
    Abstract: The objective of this Regional Economic Memorandum (REM) is to strengthen the economic analysis available to policymakers on the challenges and opportunities for regional economic integration to support job creation and economic transformation in the Horn of Africa. It assesses the current state of regional economic integration, how policies and investments can deepen this integration, and how this could help to address the opportunities and challenges confronting the region. The analysis applies both an economic geography perspective (based on the 3Ds framework of the 2009 WDR - density, distance, and division) and the lens of the jobs and economic transformation (JET) agenda, whilst taking into account fragility and conflict and the region's complex and evolving political economy. This overview synthesizes the key findings of the analysis conducted for the HoA REM, full details of which are presented in a series of Background Papers. The overview briefly describes key aspects of the region's economy and development progress (Section 2). Next, in Section 3, it presents features of the economic geography of the region and some key results from economic modeling and transport connectivity analysis. The findings demonstrate the salience of the JET agenda in the Horn, and this and its implications are discussed in Section 4. Finally, Section 5 concludes by highlighting the main policy messages which emerge from the REM's regional-level analysis
    DOI: 10.1596/36460
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