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Aylward, Bruce A. (contributor); Lutz, Ernst (contributor) - 2003

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A curse of comparison? : Evidence on reference groups for relative income concerns

Kuegler, Alice - 2009

-reported life satisfaction as a proxy for unobservable utility, the relative income of siblings is tested for relevance as a … positively linked to individual life satisfaction. This evidence supplements the scarce economic research on reference groups …

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Improving the Well-Being of Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries

World Bank - 2021

Adolescent girls are viewed as a key demographic group to target for successfully breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty in developing countries. Unfortunately, for many teenage girls in developing countries, adolescence entails a fleeting transition from childhood to adulthood,...

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Measuring subjective expectations in developing countries : a critical review and new evidence

Delavande, Adeline - 2009

"The majority of economic decisions taken by individuals are forward looking and thus involve their expectations of … future outcomes. Understanding the expectations that individuals have is thus of crucial importance to designing and … developing country surveys are static in nature and do not contain information on the subjective expectations of individuals …

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Fostering technology absorption in Southern African enterprises

Goldberg, Itzhak (contributor); Kuriakose, Smita (contributor) - 2011

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Agricultural land redistribution and land administration in Sub-Saharan Africa : case studies of recent reforms

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Wage subsidy and labor market flexibility in South Africa

Go, Delfin S. (contributor) - 2009

"In this paper, the authors use a highly disaggregate general equilibrium model to analyze the feasibility of a wage subsidy to unskilled workers in South Africa, isolating and estimating its potential employment effects and fiscal cost. They capture the structural characteristics of the labor...

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Small businesses in South Africa : who outsources tax compliance work and why?

Coolidge, Jacqueline G. - 2009

"The authors use firm-level survey data on 998 small and medium enterprises registered for tax in South Africa regarding tax compliance costs to investigate the use of outsourcing to complete tax compliance tasks. Overall, about 43 percent of the enterprises do all their tax compliance work...

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Local sources of financing for infrastructure in Africa : a cross-country analysis

Irving, Jacqueline - 2009

"With the exception of South Africa, local financial markets in sub-Saharan Africa remain underdeveloped and small, with a particular dearth of financing with maturity terms commensurate with the medium- to long-term horizons of infrastructure projects. But as financial market reforms gather...

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Paying the price for unreliable power supplies : in-house generation of electricity by firms in Africa

Foster, Vivien - 2009

"This paper documents the prevalence of in-house generation of electric power by firms in Sub-Saharan Africa and attempts to identify the underlying causes. The analysis is based on two data sources. The UDI World Electric Power Plants Data Base (WEPP), a global inventory of electric power...

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