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Distinguishing Constraints on Financial Inclusion and Their Impact on GDP, TFP, and the Distribution of Income

Dabla-Norris, Era - 2015

A general equilibrium model featuring multiple realistic sources of financial frictions is developed to study how different constraints interact in equilibrium. We highlight, distinguish, and evaluate their differential impacts and rich interactions. The economic impact of financial inclusion...

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Aid in Transition : EU Development Cooperation with Russia and Eurasia

Grigoriadis, Theocharis N. - 2015

This book is the one of the first-if not the first one-to address aid effectiveness from a comparative economics perspective. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the transition of its republics to market structures and representative forms of government, the European Commission had...

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NGO's and donors' funding : evidence from Uganda

Bougheas, Spiros P.; Isopi, Alessia; Owens, Trudy - 2022

two waves, 2002 and 2008, of a unique survey data set of 412 NGOs in Uganda we show that local donors do not implement …

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The Unintended Consequences of Ngo-Provided Aid on Government Services in Uganda

Deserranno, Erika; Nansamba, Aisha; Qian, Nancy - 2022

government’s capacity to provide similar services in rural Uganda. In villages with a government health worker at baseline, the …

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The impact of armed conflict on economic performance: Evidence from Rwanda

Serneels, Pieter; Verpoorten, Marijke - 2012

Rwanda in the early 90s, and using micro data to carry out econometric analysis, this paper finds that households and …

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The Consumption Effects of the Disposition to Sell Winners and Hold Losers

Loos, Benjamin; Meyer, Steffen; Pagel, Michaela - 2022

We use individual-level data on all security trades, holdings, spending, and income from an online retail bank. We study the effects of an exogenous change in the displayed purchase prices of the mutual funds in individuals’ portfolios. We find that individuals are more likely to sell what we...

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Entrepreneurship and SME Management Across Africa : Context, Challenges, Cases

Achtenhagen, Leona (ed.); Brundin, Ethel (ed.) - 2016

: The case of Rwanda as a developmental state -- Chapter 10: Artisanal mining in Rwanda: The trade-off between … entrepreneurial activity and environmental impact -- Chapter 11: Tourism as emerging industry in Rwanda: The role of training and … development for the hotel sector -- Chapter 12: Privatization of firms in Rwanda: The role of corporate governance practices …

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Factor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda

Jones, Maria; Kondylis, Florence; Loeser, John; … - 2021

We examine constraints to adoption of new technologies in the context of hillside irrigation schemes in Rwanda. We …

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Cape Verde and Mozambique as Development Successes in West and Southern Africa

Braga de Macedo, Jorge - 2010

This paper applies an interpretation of how globalization and governance (G&G) interact with convergence given Cape Verde and Mozambique's particular geographical and historical contexts. We hold that development success under globalization entails, necessarily but not exclusively, positive...

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When Economic Reform Goes Wrong : Cashews in Mozambique

McMillan, Margaret - 2009

Mozambique liberalized its cashew sector in the early 1990s in response to pressure from the World Bank. Opponents of the reform have argued that the policy did little to benefit poor cashew farmers while bankrupting factories in urban areas. Using a welfare-theoretic framework, we analyze the...

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