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Clare Manuel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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gender dimensions of Investment Climate reform a guide for policy makers and practitioners
2010Co-Authors: Sevi Simavi, Clare Manuel, Mark C BlackdenAbstract:Promoting women's economic empowerment is increasingly seen as an important driving force behind economic growth and the fight against poverty. Women's economic participation as entrepreneurs, employees, and leaders is recognized as a measure of a country's economic viability and dynamism. The guide starts with a brief section on the economic rationale for gender inclusion in Investment Climate reform work. It is then divided into nine modules. Recognizing the socioeconomic dimensions of gender-focused work, the core module outlines the broader, overarching framework within which gender-informed Investment Climate work can take place. It also focuses on the monitoring and evaluation framework, with particular emphasis on establishing appropriate baselines to facilitate the measurement of gender-informed changes in the business environment. The eight thematic modules provide specific guidance on key Investment Climate issues comprising: (i) public-private dialogue, (ii) business start-up and operation, (iii) business taxation, (iv) trade logistics, (v) secured lending, (vi) alternative dispute resolution, (vii) special economic zones, and (viii) foreign Investment policy and promotion. Thematic modules are designed to guide the reader through the project cycle and present the three-step process: (a) diagnostic, (b) solution design, and (c) implementation and monitoring and evaluation.
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Vanuatu Gender and Investment Climate Reform Assessment - Vanuatu Gender and Investment Climate Reform Assessment
2010Co-Authors: Sonali Hedditch, Clare ManuelAbstract:This report is one of six gender and Investment Climate reform assessments undertaken in six Pacific nations including Samoa. The report analyses gender-based Investment Climate barriers which constrain private sector development and identifies solutions to address them. Six Investment Climate areas are considered: public private dialogue; starting and licensing a business; access to justice and alternative dispute resolution; access to, and enforcement of, rights over registered land; access to finance; and access to, and enforcement of, rights over intellectual property. In each area the report considers legal, regulatory, and administrative barriers to private sector development with a gender perspective. It makes recommendations aimed at ensuring that women benefit from ongoing efforts to improve Samoa’s Investment Climate on the same basis as their male counterparts.
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Solomon Islands Gender and Investment Climate Reform Assessment - Solomon Islands gender and Investment Climate reform assessment
2010Co-Authors: Sonali Hedditch, Clare ManuelAbstract:This report is one of six gender and Investment Climate reform assessments undertaken in six Pacific nations including Solomon Islands. The report analyses gender-based Investment Climate barriers which constrain private sector development and identifies solutions to address them. Four key Investment Climate areas are considered: public private dialogue; starting and licensing a business; access to justice, the courts and mediation; and access to and enforcement of rights over registered land. In each area the report considers legal, regulatory, and administrative barriers to private sector development with a gender perspective. It makes recommendations aimed at ensuring that women benefit from ongoing efforts to improve Solomon Islands’ Investment Climate on the same basis as their male counterparts.
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Timor-Leste Gender and Investment Climate Reform Assessment - Timor-Leste Gender and Investment Climate Reform Assessment
2010Co-Authors: Sonali Hedditch, Clare ManuelAbstract:This report is one of six gender and Investment Climate reform assessments undertaken in six Pacific nations including Timor-Leste. The report analyses gender-based Investment Climate barriers which constrain private sector development and identifies solutions to address them. Four key Investment Climate areas are considered: public private dialogue; starting and licensing a business; access to justice and alternative dispute resolution; and access to, and enforcement of, rights over registered land. In each area the report considers legal, regulatory, and administrative barriers to private sector development with a gender perspective. It makes recommendations aimed at ensuring that women benefit from ongoing efforts to improve Timor-Leste’s Investment Climate on the same basis as their male counterparts.
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Papua New Guinea Gender and Investment Climate Reform Assessment - Papua New Guinea gender and Investment Climate reform assessment
2010Co-Authors: Sonali Hedditch, Clare ManuelAbstract:This report is one of six gender and Investment Climate reform assessments undertaken in six Pacific nations including Papua New Guinea. The report analyses gender-based Investment Climate barriers which constrain private sector development and identifies solutions to address them. Four key Investment Climate areas are considered: public private dialogue; starting and licensing a business; access to justice, the courts, and alternative dispute resolution; and access to, and enforcement of, rights over registered land. In each area the report considers legal, regulatory, and administrative barriers to private sector development with a gender perspective. It makes recommendations aimed at ensuring that women benefit from ongoing efforts to improve Papua New Guinea’s Investment Climate on the same basis as their male counterparts.
Sonali Hedditch - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Vanuatu Gender and Investment Climate Reform Assessment - Vanuatu Gender and Investment Climate Reform Assessment
2010Co-Authors: Sonali Hedditch, Clare ManuelAbstract:This report is one of six gender and Investment Climate reform assessments undertaken in six Pacific nations including Samoa. The report analyses gender-based Investment Climate barriers which constrain private sector development and identifies solutions to address them. Six Investment Climate areas are considered: public private dialogue; starting and licensing a business; access to justice and alternative dispute resolution; access to, and enforcement of, rights over registered land; access to finance; and access to, and enforcement of, rights over intellectual property. In each area the report considers legal, regulatory, and administrative barriers to private sector development with a gender perspective. It makes recommendations aimed at ensuring that women benefit from ongoing efforts to improve Samoa’s Investment Climate on the same basis as their male counterparts.
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Solomon Islands Gender and Investment Climate Reform Assessment - Solomon Islands gender and Investment Climate reform assessment
2010Co-Authors: Sonali Hedditch, Clare ManuelAbstract:This report is one of six gender and Investment Climate reform assessments undertaken in six Pacific nations including Solomon Islands. The report analyses gender-based Investment Climate barriers which constrain private sector development and identifies solutions to address them. Four key Investment Climate areas are considered: public private dialogue; starting and licensing a business; access to justice, the courts and mediation; and access to and enforcement of rights over registered land. In each area the report considers legal, regulatory, and administrative barriers to private sector development with a gender perspective. It makes recommendations aimed at ensuring that women benefit from ongoing efforts to improve Solomon Islands’ Investment Climate on the same basis as their male counterparts.
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Timor-Leste Gender and Investment Climate Reform Assessment - Timor-Leste Gender and Investment Climate Reform Assessment
2010Co-Authors: Sonali Hedditch, Clare ManuelAbstract:This report is one of six gender and Investment Climate reform assessments undertaken in six Pacific nations including Timor-Leste. The report analyses gender-based Investment Climate barriers which constrain private sector development and identifies solutions to address them. Four key Investment Climate areas are considered: public private dialogue; starting and licensing a business; access to justice and alternative dispute resolution; and access to, and enforcement of, rights over registered land. In each area the report considers legal, regulatory, and administrative barriers to private sector development with a gender perspective. It makes recommendations aimed at ensuring that women benefit from ongoing efforts to improve Timor-Leste’s Investment Climate on the same basis as their male counterparts.
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Papua New Guinea Gender and Investment Climate Reform Assessment - Papua New Guinea gender and Investment Climate reform assessment
2010Co-Authors: Sonali Hedditch, Clare ManuelAbstract:This report is one of six gender and Investment Climate reform assessments undertaken in six Pacific nations including Papua New Guinea. The report analyses gender-based Investment Climate barriers which constrain private sector development and identifies solutions to address them. Four key Investment Climate areas are considered: public private dialogue; starting and licensing a business; access to justice, the courts, and alternative dispute resolution; and access to, and enforcement of, rights over registered land. In each area the report considers legal, regulatory, and administrative barriers to private sector development with a gender perspective. It makes recommendations aimed at ensuring that women benefit from ongoing efforts to improve Papua New Guinea’s Investment Climate on the same basis as their male counterparts.
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Gender and Investment Climate Reform Assessment : Pacific Regional Executive Summary - Gender and Investment Climate Reform Assessment : Pacific Regional Executive Summary
2010Co-Authors: Sonali Hedditch, Clare ManuelAbstract:This assessment briefly summarizes the solutions identified in the report entitled, Economic Opportunities for Women in the Pacific. The report addresses gender-based Investment Climate barriers which constrain women's economic empowerment in six Pacific nations: Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Tonga, and Vanuatu. Four Investment Climate topics are considered: 1) public private dialogue; 2) starting and licensing a business; 3) access to justice and alternative dispute resolution; and 4) access to and enforcement of rights over registered land. For each topic, this series of six reports ask whether women face different or additional Investment Climate constraints to those faced by men. And they make recommendations aimed at ensuring that women benefit from ongoing efforts to improve the Investment Climate on the same basis as their male counterparts. The reports do not aim to cover all gender issues in the six Pacific Island countries, or all gender issues in private sector development or Investment Climate reform. Gender constraints in the Pacific are wide-ranging and entrenched in cultural and historical factors. All targets and activities recommended in the reports only relate to reducing gender constraints through the Investment Climate reforms that International Financial Corporation (IFC) is undertaking. Any further recommendations made that are not linked to targets or activities are for the Government and its development partners to consider and advance as appropriate. It is hoped that the report's analysis of Investment Climate barriers with a gender lens will also be a useful tool for other stakeholders working to increase women's economic empowerment.
Vijaya Ramachandran - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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An Assessment of the Investment Climate in South Africa
2007Co-Authors: George R. G. Clarke, James Habyarimana, Michael Ingram, David Kaplan, Vijaya RamachandranAbstract:Most aspects of South Africa's Investment Climate are favorable. Consistent with this, large South African firms are very productive. Labor productivity is far higher in South Africa than in the most productive low income countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Although many areas of the Investment Climate are favorable, some problems remain. Firms appear to be particularly concerned about at least four areas: skills and education of workers, labor regulation, exchange rate instability, and crime.
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South Africa - an assessment of the Investment Climate
2007Co-Authors: George R. G. Clarke, James Habyarimana, Michael Ingram, David Kaplan, Vijaya RamachandranAbstract:The objective of the South Africa Investment Climate Assessment (ICA) is to evaluate the Investment Climate in South Africa in all its operational dimensions and to promote policies to strengthen the private sector. The Investment Climate is made up of the many location-specific factors that shape opportunities and incentives for firms to invest productively, create jobs, and expand. These factors include macroeconomic and regulatory policies, the security of property rights and the rule of law, and the quality of supporting institutions such as physical and financial infrastructure. The main source of information for the ICA is a survey of over 800 formal private enterprises. The survey includes data on firm productivity, the cost of doing business, the regulatory environment, the labor market, the financial sector, the trade regime, and levels of Investment. The analysis links business environment constraints to firm-level costs and productivity. Also, the Investment Climate and performance of firms in South Africa can be compared with those of firms in the more than 70 low- and middle income countries in which Investment Climate Surveys (ICSs) have been conducted.
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Summary of Zambia Investment Climate assessment
2005Co-Authors: James Habyarimana, Chad Leechor, Linda Cotton, Constantine Chikosi, Vijaya RamachandranAbstract:The Zambian Investment Climate Assessment (ICA) was conducted to support the Zambian economy as it diversifies away from dependence on volatile copper extraction and enhances the competitiveness of its private sector. Current underproductivity in Zambia is fed by low quality inputs rooted in and exacerbated by a difficult Investment Climate. The main Investment Climate constraints in Zambia are macroeconomic instability, regulatory policy uncertainty and administration, inefficient labor and infrastructure markets, and corruption. An improved Investment Climate based on a stable macroeconomic environment of lower interest rates and inflation and amendment of current practices would encourage Investment, create jobs, and fight poverty. This note summarizes the ICA undertaken in Zambia in 2003. It is based on a survey of over 200 service and manufacturing firms of differing locations and sizes. It aims to highlight the conditions inhibiting productive Investment and discusses policy options for private sector support.
Yuichiro Yoshida - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Impact of Investment Climate on Total Factor Productivity of Manufacturing Firms in Vietnam
Sustainability, 2018Co-Authors: Mai Huong Giang, Tran Dang Xuan, Bui Huy Trung, Mai Thanh Que, Yuichiro YoshidaAbstract:Investment Climate has been acknowledged as a key factor that significantly influences economic performance. Improving the Investment Climate may foster the development of the private sector by creating sustainable jobs and opportunities for entrepreneurs, which contributes to sustained poverty reduction in developing countries. This research examined the relationship between the Investment Climate and firm productivity by exploring a unique panel dataset of 1310 enterprises operating in the manufacturing sector in Vietnam. Productivity was measured as the total factor productivity (TFP) obtained by production function estimation using Levinsohn and Petrin’s approach. Investment Climate factors included infrastructure, labor skills, regulatory governance and institutions, and access to finance. It was shown that restrictions on the Investment Climate were harmful to firm productivity. The lack of Internet and financial accessibility, low educational level of employees, administrative burden and the cost of bribery were negatively associated with firm TFP. The results indicate that access to Internet and finance, and quality of labor should be further enhanced while administrative burden and corruption should be significantly reduced to strengthen the TFP. The findings of this study may provide insights for policymakers who aim to improve the Investment Climate and firm productivity and thereby contribute to the sustainable growth of the country.
Jian Zhang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Promoting the Rural Farm and Nonfarm Businesses: Evidence from the Yemen Rural Investment Climate - Promoting the Rural Farm and Nonfarm Businesses : Evidence from the Yemen Rural Investment Climate
Policy Research Working Papers, 2012Co-Authors: Naotaka Sawada, Jian ZhangAbstract:This study examines the major constraints of rural business entry and performance in Yemen. The Yemen rural Investment Climate survey made it possible to analyze rural Investment Climate constraints for rural businesses. The survey was used to investigate both farm and nonfarm rural enterprises. The rural Investment Climate was assessed using a combination of subjective impressions related by rural entrepreneurs, and a more objective, empirical set of analyses that employed indicators to rank the constraints to "doing business" in the areas surveyed. These empirical analyses included application of the entry model, the performance model, the closure model, and the migration model. The migration model was introduced to identify how the rural Investment Climate variables at the community level increase migration and economic activities. Based on the assessment of the rural Investment Climate, this paper identifies and explains four critical areas in which the rural Investment Climate in Yemen can be improved: market demand, access to markets, access to finance, and the provision of business services. Because farm and nonfarm businesses often experience common or similar constraints, the Climate in which they operate can often be improved with the same measures and policies. Addressing the constraints that affect rural women entrepreneurs in particular, who play a vital role in rural nonfarm enterprises, warrants clear priority as a means to generate income and employment. Security and labor issues are identified as the key such constraints that disproportionately affect women.
