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VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🆕 Learning how business is done: Management styles and labour market inclusion Today on VoxDev, Girum Abebe (IFC), Marcel Fafchamps (FSI), Michael Koelle (OECD), Simon Quinn (Imperial) & Tom Schwantje (Bocconi) outline research on Ethiopia: https://ow.ly/CFMO50XX92x

Learning how business is done: Management styles and labour market inclusion

Existing efforts to promote upward mobility in low-income countries focus on broadening access to education. However, evidence from Ethiopia shows that professional socialisation (learning professional norms) may be a key constraint to this mobility, even among highly educated people.

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Ben Golub@bengolub.bsky.social · last yr.

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VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · last yr.

🆕 Low-cost housing for Africa’s cities Today on VoxDev, Simon Franklin (Queen Mary University of London) discusses evidence from a large-scale housing lottery programme in Ethiopia: voxdev.org/topic/migrat...

Low-cost housing for Africa’s cities

Evidence from a large-scale housing lottery programme in Ethiopia shows that government housing that people want, and thrive in, can work in settings with highly constrained housing supply and when pr...

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VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · last yr.

🆕 What type of contracts do microfinance clients prefer? Today on VoxDev, Uzma Afzal (LUMS), Giovanna d’Adda (University of Milan), Marcel Fafchamps (IFS), Simon Quinn (Imperial College) & Farah Said (LUMS) outline their research on Pakistan: voxdev.org/topic/financ...

What type of contracts do microfinance clients prefer?

Research shows that microfinance clients use credit and savings as commitment devices to accumulate lump sums. Evidence from Pakistan suggests high demand for fixed-repayment contracts, but low demand...

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