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WORKING PAPER

How Do African Firms Respond to Unreliable Power? Exploring Firm Heterogeneity Using K-Means Clustering - Working Paper 493
Vijaya Ramachandran et al.
August 20, 2018
While previous studies have found a positive relationship between the reliability of power and firm growth, we find that such a clear relationship seems not to prevail. In other words, some firms are able to cope with an unreliable supply of power while many others do not.
Blog Post

Many Refugees in Developing Countries Are Located near Urban Job Opportunities—but Most Are Not Allowed to Work
Cindy Huang
and
Jimmy Graham
June 19, 2018
We estimate that there are between 915,087 and 2,186,829 working-age refugees in major urban areas in developing nations—constituting a potential hiring pipeline for many multinational, regional, and local businesses.
Blog Post

Rethinking the Infrastructure Gap in the Poorest Countries
W. Gyude Moore
May 16, 2018
A recent blog post by Ricardo Hausmann caught my eye because it addresses issues that I’ll be focusing on during my visiting fellowship here at the Center for Global Development. Hausmann—a former Venezuelan minister of planning—discusses the difficulty of closing the infrastructure gap in...
PODCAST

Lessons from Liberia with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
March 27, 2018
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former President of Liberia and Africa’s first elected female president, on the impact of private sector investment, the urgency of action on climate change, and the resilience of developing countries.