Who Benefits and How Much? How Gender Affects Welfare Impacts of a Booming Textile Industry
Exports of textile products originating from Sub-Saharan African countries have grown dramatically in the past decade. Recent trade initiatives, such as the "African Growth Opportunity Act" and "Everything but Arms," along with...
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okr-10986-182272021-04-23T14:03:42Z Who Benefits and How Much? How Gender Affects Welfare Impacts of a Booming Textile Industry Nicita, Alessandro Razzaz, Susan ACCOUNTING CLIMATE COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURE COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE CONSTRUCTION COST OF LIVING DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DISCRIMINATION DIVISION OF LABOR ECONOMETRIC ESTIMATES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC POLICIES ECONOMIC SECTORS EMPLOYMENT EQUILIBRIUM EXCHANGE RATE EXERCISES EXPENDITURES EXTERNALITIES IMPORTS INCOME INFLATION INFORMAL SECTOR INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS LABOR COSTS LABOR FORCE LABOR SUPPLY LIVING CONDITIONS LIVING STANDARDS MIGRATION NEW ENTRANTS PENSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POVERTY LINE PRODUCTIVITY PURCHASING POWER QUOTAS REAL WAGES TEXTILE INDUSTRY TRANSACTION COSTS TRANSPORT UNEMPLOYMENT URBAN AREAS WAGE DIFFERENTIALS WAGES WORKERS TEXTILE INDUSTRY WELFARE EXPORTS LABOR COSTS ECONOMIC SECTORS GENDER EQUALITY METHODOLOGY POVERTY ALLEVIATION MECHANISMS WAGES INCOME LEVELS EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS WORKERS TEXTILE INDUSTRY Exports of textile products originating from Sub-Saharan African countries have grown dramatically in the past decade. Recent trade initiatives, such as the "African Growth Opportunity Act" and "Everything but Arms," along with low labor costs and improved integration into world markets, are giving further stimulus to the growth of the textile and apparel industry in Sub-Saharan African countries. Nicita and Razzaz explore the extent to which the poor are also beneficiaries of the export-led growth of particular economic sectors, or whether the poor are unable to reap any of the benefits and therefore fall further behind. They use a methodology that combines the matching methods literature (to identify individuals more likely to fill the new jobs of the expanding sector) with the industry wage premium literature (to quantify the gains of the individuals that move into the expanding sector). The results indicate that a sustained export-driven growth in Madagascar's textile and apparel industry will lead to a substantial increase in the income of poor households, with a consequent decrease in poverty. In a scenario simulating five years of expansion of the textile sector, the authors estimate that more than one million individuals will directly or indirectly receive some benefit. On average, households in which one or more members work in the textile sector get an increase in purchasing power of about 24 percent or US$14 a month. The results further show that benefits are unevenly distributed across male and female workers. Households in which a male member is employed in the textile and apparel industry increase their purchasing power by 36 percent or US$24.5 a month, compared with 22 percent or US$12.2 a month in the case of a female worker. 2014-05-09T19:44:21Z 2014-05-09T19:44:21Z 2003-04 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/04/2329623/benefits-much-gender-affects-welfare-impacts-booming-textile-industry http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18227 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 3029 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Sub-Saharan Africa |
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ACCOUNTING CLIMATE COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURE COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE CONSTRUCTION COST OF LIVING DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DISCRIMINATION DIVISION OF LABOR ECONOMETRIC ESTIMATES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC POLICIES ECONOMIC SECTORS EMPLOYMENT EQUILIBRIUM EXCHANGE RATE EXERCISES EXPENDITURES EXTERNALITIES IMPORTS INCOME INFLATION INFORMAL SECTOR INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS LABOR COSTS LABOR FORCE LABOR SUPPLY LIVING CONDITIONS LIVING STANDARDS MIGRATION NEW ENTRANTS PENSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POVERTY LINE PRODUCTIVITY PURCHASING POWER QUOTAS REAL WAGES TEXTILE INDUSTRY TRANSACTION COSTS TRANSPORT UNEMPLOYMENT URBAN AREAS WAGE DIFFERENTIALS WAGES WORKERS TEXTILE INDUSTRY WELFARE EXPORTS LABOR COSTS ECONOMIC SECTORS GENDER EQUALITY METHODOLOGY POVERTY ALLEVIATION MECHANISMS WAGES INCOME LEVELS EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS WORKERS TEXTILE INDUSTRY |
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ACCOUNTING CLIMATE COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURE COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE CONSTRUCTION COST OF LIVING DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DISCRIMINATION DIVISION OF LABOR ECONOMETRIC ESTIMATES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC POLICIES ECONOMIC SECTORS EMPLOYMENT EQUILIBRIUM EXCHANGE RATE EXERCISES EXPENDITURES EXTERNALITIES IMPORTS INCOME INFLATION INFORMAL SECTOR INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS LABOR COSTS LABOR FORCE LABOR SUPPLY LIVING CONDITIONS LIVING STANDARDS MIGRATION NEW ENTRANTS PENSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POVERTY LINE PRODUCTIVITY PURCHASING POWER QUOTAS REAL WAGES TEXTILE INDUSTRY TRANSACTION COSTS TRANSPORT UNEMPLOYMENT URBAN AREAS WAGE DIFFERENTIALS WAGES WORKERS TEXTILE INDUSTRY WELFARE EXPORTS LABOR COSTS ECONOMIC SECTORS GENDER EQUALITY METHODOLOGY POVERTY ALLEVIATION MECHANISMS WAGES INCOME LEVELS EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS WORKERS TEXTILE INDUSTRY Nicita, Alessandro Razzaz, Susan Who Benefits and How Much? How Gender Affects Welfare Impacts of a Booming Textile Industry |
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Exports of textile products originating
from Sub-Saharan African countries have grown dramatically
in the past decade. Recent trade initiatives, such as the
"African Growth Opportunity Act" and
"Everything but Arms," along with low labor costs
and improved integration into world markets, are giving
further stimulus to the growth of the textile and apparel
industry in Sub-Saharan African countries. Nicita and Razzaz
explore the extent to which the poor are also beneficiaries
of the export-led growth of particular economic sectors, or
whether the poor are unable to reap any of the benefits and
therefore fall further behind. They use a methodology that
combines the matching methods literature (to identify
individuals more likely to fill the new jobs of the
expanding sector) with the industry wage premium literature
(to quantify the gains of the individuals that move into the
expanding sector). The results indicate that a sustained
export-driven growth in Madagascar's textile and
apparel industry will lead to a substantial increase in the
income of poor households, with a consequent decrease in
poverty. In a scenario simulating five years of expansion of
the textile sector, the authors estimate that more than one
million individuals will directly or indirectly receive some
benefit. On average, households in which one or more members
work in the textile sector get an increase in purchasing
power of about 24 percent or US$14 a month. The results
further show that benefits are unevenly distributed across
male and female workers. Households in which a male member
is employed in the textile and apparel industry increase
their purchasing power by 36 percent or US$24.5 a month,
compared with 22 percent or US$12.2 a month in the case of a
female worker. |
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Nicita, Alessandro Razzaz, Susan |
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Nicita, Alessandro Razzaz, Susan |
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Nicita, Alessandro |
| title |
Who Benefits and How Much? How Gender Affects Welfare Impacts of a Booming Textile Industry |
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Who Benefits and How Much? How Gender Affects Welfare Impacts of a Booming Textile Industry |
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Who Benefits and How Much? How Gender Affects Welfare Impacts of a Booming Textile Industry |
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Who Benefits and How Much? How Gender Affects Welfare Impacts of a Booming Textile Industry |
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Who Benefits and How Much? How Gender Affects Welfare Impacts of a Booming Textile Industry |
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who benefits and how much? how gender affects welfare impacts of a booming textile industry |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2014 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/04/2329623/benefits-much-gender-affects-welfare-impacts-booming-textile-industry http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18227 |
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