Productivity

The Effect of Government Relief Measures on SME Employment and Survival in Burkina Faso during the COVID-19 Crisis

This project studies the operations and employment impacts of the coronavirus crisis on small- and medium-sized enterprises in Burkina Faso and tests an experiment to improve access to government relief.

Research Project
30 Jun 2020

Worker Wellness and Organisational Barriers to COVID-19 Prevention Inside the Firm

This project estimates the effects of COVID-19 illness amongst workers on productivity in garment factories in Bangladesh.

Research Project
30 Jun 2020

An Analysis of the Impacts of COVID-19 on Large-Scale Firms in Nepal

This study aims to assess the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on large firms in Nepal, identify the factors moderating its effects and evaluate policies that could help limit the damage to these firms.

Research Project
30 Jun 2020

Economic Effects of COVID-19 on Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association Members

This project will examine the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Bangladeshi garment manufacturers and exporters.

Research Project
30 Jun 2020

Resilience to Economic Shocks through Continued Electricity Access in Kenya

This project employs a field experiment to study how access to affordable electricity can improve the economic resilience of workers and firms to the coronavirus crisis.

Research Project
30 Jun 2020

Knowledge Exchange and Productivity Spill-overs in Bangladeshi Garment Factories

Knowledge sharing between employees has long been viewed as a major driver of firm productivity growth, and has commonly been measured by productivity spill-overs within firms.

Working Paper
1 May 2020

Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries

In principle, firms in developing countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be adopted, a process often referred to as industrial upgrading.

Synthesis Paper
10 Mar 2020

The Consequences of Treating Electricity as a Right

This paper seeks to explain why billions of people in developing countries either have no access to electricity or lack a reliable supply.

Journal Article
1 Feb 2020

Why Do African Firms Underinvest in Management Training? Experimental Evidence from Middle and Large Ethiopian Firms

This project involves an RCT in Ethiopia to test whether firms’ demand for training is influenced by the level of competition that they face in the market.

Research Project
1 Feb 2020

Productivity and Competition in India's Brick Industry

A detailed survey of the Indian brick industry shows substantial productivity dispersion, attributable to both technology differences as well as within-technology efficiency variation.

Research Note
7 Jan 2020

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