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Up in Smoke : The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves
Hanna, Rema - 2012
It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in the rural areas of developing countries through the adoption of improved cooking stoves. This belief is largely supported by observational...
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Gender Differences in Preferences, Intra-Household Externalities, and Low Demand for Improved Cookstoves
Miller, Grant - 2013
This paper examines whether an intra-household externality prevents adoption of a technology with substantial … implications for population health and the environment: improved cookstoves. Motivated by a model of intra-household decision … suggest that if women cannot make independent choices about household resource use, public policy may not be able to exploit …
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Does Household Electrification Supercharge Economic Development?
Lee, Kenneth - 2019
has produced a set of conflicting results. Does household electrification lead to measurable gains in living standards or … connect for free. We conclude that access to household electrification alone is not enough to drive meaningful gains in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480472
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Precautionary Strategies and Household Saving
Aizenman, Joshua - 2015
weaker and labor informality is prevalent. In such environments, household saving decisions are intertwined with firms …
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Do Corrupt Governments Receive Less Foreign Aid?
Alesina, Alberto - 1999
Critics of foreign aid programs argue that these funds often support corrupt governments and inefficient bureaucracies. Supporters argue that foreign aid can be used to reward good governments. This paper documents that there is no evidence that less corrupt governments receive more foreign aid....
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Foreign Aid and State Capacity
Deserranno, Erika - 2020
We document that, in rural Uganda, the entry of foreign aid reduces government provision of similar services because the organization that delivers aid often hires the government worker, thereby reducing state capacity. Access to any public services and population well-being worsen in villages...
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The Determinants of Food Aid Provisions to Africa and the Developing World
Nunn, Nathan - 2010
We examine the supply-side and demand-side determinants of global bilateral food aid shipments between 1971 and 2008. First, we find that domestic food production in developing countries is negatively correlated with subsequent food aid receipts, suggesting that food aid receipt is partly driven...
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Aid Volatility and Poverty Traps
Agénor, Pierre-Richard - 2007
This paper studies the impact of aid volatility in a two-period model where production may occur with either a traditional or a modern technology. Public spending is productive and "time to build" requires expenditure in both periods for the modern technology to be used. The possibility of a...
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What Works in Fighting Diarrheal Diseases in Developing Countries? A Critical Review
Kremer, Michael - 2007
The Millennium Development Goals call for reducing by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water. This goal was adopted in large part because clean water was seen as critical to fighting diarrheal disease, which kills 2 million children annually. There is...
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What Undermines Aid's Impact on Growth?
Rajan, Raghuram G. - 2005
We examine one of the most important and intriguing puzzles in economics: why it is so hard to find a robust effect of aid on the long-term growth of poor countries, even those with good policies. We look for a possible offset to the beneficial effects of aid, using a methodology that exploits...
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