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What should development economists know about politics? : Identifying the policy environment for economic policy reform

Morrissey, Oliver - 1997

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Ugandan trade policy and export performance in the 1990s

Morrissey, Oliver; Rudaheranwa, Nicodemus - 1998

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001372266

Protection, trade policy and transport costs : effective taxation of Ugandan exporters

Milner, Chris; Morrissey, Oliver; Rudaheranwa, Nicodemus - 1998

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Hedonic adaptation to treatment : evidence from a medical intervention

Barazzetta, Marta; Appleton, Simon; Owens, Trudy - 2015

We investigate adaptation of subjective well-being using a randomised controlled trial. We find that providing medical equipment to a random sample of Ugandan adults with lower limb disabilities has a positive effect on their physical health, using both objective and self-reported measures....

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Income diversification and household welfare in Uganda 1992-2012

Khan, Rumman; Morrissey, Oliver - 2019

We use six waves of national household surveys in Uganda, from 1992/3 to 2012/13, to study income diversification by …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997599

Early childhood health during conflict : the legacy of the Lord's Resistance Army in Northern Uganda

Bridges, Sarah; Scott, Douglas - 2019

’s Resistance Army insurgency in Northern Uganda (1987- 2007). The causal effect of the conflict is found to be a 0.65 standard …

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Better performing NGOs do report more accurately : evidence from investigating Ugandan NGO financial accounts

Burger, Ronelle; Dang, Canh Thien; Owens, Trudy - 2017

Improving ways to assess development efforts is an important task. Yet, little has been done to understand the connection between the effectiveness of NGOs and their financial accountability. We use Benford’s Law to assess accuracy of financial reports by a sample of Ugandan NGOs. We find 25%...

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What motivates Ugandan NGOs to diversify : risk reduction or private gain?

Dang, Canh Thien; Owens, Trudy - 2017

relative magnitude of the two motivators. We exploit the 2007 historic flood in Uganda and the surge in the international aid …

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Education, incomes and poverty in Uganda in the 1990s

Appleton, Simon - 2001

This paper examines the relationship between poverty and education in Uganda in the 1990s. It shows how growth in …

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Protection, trade policy and transport costs : effective taxation of Ugandan exporters

Milner, Chris; Morrissey, Oliver; Rudaheranwa, Nicodemus - 1998 - Manuscript received: December 1998

Uganda has made significant progress in re ducing the anti-export bias in its trade policy in the 1990s. Taxes on … costs. This paper uses data from a range of sources to estimate the transport costs for imports to, and exports from, Uganda … significant benefit to Uganda, especially to exporters. …

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