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In EU countries, opening up of telecommunications markets and regulations have helped to reduce the price of digital … services which is an important quasi-input factor in all firms. Integrating the use of telecommunications in a macroeconomic … production function is the analytical starting point for our interdependent analysis of output, use of telecommunications and …
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innovative procedure and we show its implementation by analysing the determinants of consumption in Nicaragua, based on data from …
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In this paper I use a unique data set from Nicaragua to asses the behavior of persons who send money back home. I …
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known form of variance I test the findings of the theoretical model with data from Nicaragua. Evidence suggests that … migrants from Nicaragua remit for altruistic reasons. Moreover some gender heterogeneity seems to exist in the remitting …
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. This paper examines heterogeneous effects using random-assignment data from the Red de Proteccion Social in rural Nicaragua …
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proliferation of protected areas in Bolivia over the past several decades has prompted interest in understanding their impacts on … poverty. Using rich biophysical and socioeconomic data from Bolivia we find that municipalities with at least 10% of their … that Bolivia's protected areas were associated with poverty reduction are similar to previous studies, our underlying …
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in Bolivia to study the intra-household income allocation process towards children's educational expenditure by ethnicity …
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This paper investigates the potential of information technologies to improve public service delivery and empower citizens in the context of two unusual randomized natural experiments occurring within one particular bureaucratic process: the renewal of a national identification card by the...
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-municipal governments in Bolivia, and it presents a randomized field experiment designed to improve public service delivery by promoting …
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country such as Bolivia. Among developing countries, Bolivia “excels” in having one of the highest levels of domestic violence … across different ethnic groups. Using information from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) for Bolivia, we examine the …
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