In this study employee turnover drivers in two organizations from different economic sectors are compared. A mixed method design, comprising of a questionnaire survey, semi-structured interviews and focus groups discussions, was used to collect data from two stratified sample of participants and key informants in a public and a private sector organization. Organizational documents were mined fo...

Death rates for working-age men in European state socialist countries deviated from general improvements in survival observed in the rest of Europe during the 20th century. The magnitude of structural labor force changes across countries correlates with lagged increases in death rates for men in the working ages. This pattern is consistent with a hypothesis that hyper-development of heavy indus...

• The performance of sector-based approaches in agriculture is, at best, mixed • Even so, the fundamentals of sector-based approaches remain valid to the agricultural sectors of developing countries • Lessons from 10 years of experience need to be taken on board and the underlying causes of underperformance need to be addressed R esearch on sector-based approaches in agriculture suggests that, ...

After the collapse of the housing bubble in 2007, severe fire sales of assets in the financial sector are accompanied by a rise in the volatility of asset returns in the non-financial firms. To account for their co-movements, I develop a model that highlights the interaction between the financial health of the banking sector and the volatility of asset returns. The novel feature of the model is...

The emerging information-based economy requires an educated and skilled labor force. Unfortunately this caliber of human resource is insufficient in South Africa. This is in part due to the historical experience of the apartheid educational system, which stifled human capital development among generations of South Africans. Despite commendable efforts of the government to meet the increasing de...

This paper reports the result of a study that empirically determined the willingness to pay for organic vegetables among households in Anambra State, South East Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling technique was adopted in the selection of 120 respondents for the study. Primary and a secondary data collected through the aid of a well-structured questionnaire augmented with an interview schedule and a ...

Third Sector Organisations (TSOs) have multiple purposes, i.e. financial stability as well as their mission, often operate in complicated circumstances and report to multiple stakeholders. This paper shows that information is not being used as effectively as it could be for regulation and performance management in this sector. A preliminary study of secondary cases indicates that Enterprise Per...

This study seeks to investigate the growth in agricultural, industrial and services sector of Pakistan in terms of their relative impacts on poverty reduction within the country. Further, it identifies the dynamic effects of growth on poverty as a way to capture the usual ‘trickle down’ effects. Secondary data ranging from 1981-2010 are used in the analysis and the results are obtained through ...

This Working Paper should not be reported as representing the views of the IMF. The views expressed in this Working Paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the IMF or IMF policy. Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to elicit comments and to further debate. Using a dataset which breaks down FDI flows into primary, sec...

This Working Paper should not be reported as representing the views of the IMF. The views expressed in this Working Paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the IMF or IMF policy. Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to elicit comments and to further debate. Using a dataset which breaks down FDI flows into primary, sec...