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"This paper presents the evaluation of the program Computers for Education. The program aims to integrate computers, donated by the private sector, into the teaching of language in public schools. The authors conduct a two-year randomized evaluation of the program using a sample of 97 schools...
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uncertainty of government behavior impedes it. This paper reports on a laboratory experiment based on a stylized model of the … Zambian maize market. The experiment facilitates a comparison between discretionary interventionism and a rules-based policy … in the economic experiment, the improvement in private sector activity is surprisingly small and not statistically …
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"Microfinance has been heralded as an effective way to address imperfections in credit markets. But from a theoretical perspective, the success of microfinance contracts has puzzling elements. In particular, the group-based mechanisms often employed are vulnerable to free-riding and collusion,...
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government behavior underpinned by mutual trust and cooperation. The authors report on an economic policy experiment based on a … stylized model of the Zambian maize market. The experiment facilitates a comparison between the current government policy of …
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Smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa face an array of challenges to realizing higher profits from their agricultural activities, including lack of adequate storage facilities and credit market imperfections. To address these constraints, warrantage, an innovative inventory credit system,...
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find that competition has a negative effect on innovation, especially for firms further from the efficiency frontier, and … we do not find support for an inverted U effect of competition on innovation. The authors show that the supply chain of … multinational enterprises and international trade are important channels for domestic firms' innovation. They detect no evidence …
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