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Improving access to savings through mobile money : experimental evidence from African smallholder farmers
Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2019
Investment in improved agricultural inputs is infrequent for smallholder farmers in Africa. One barrier may be limited … access to formal savings. This is the first study to use a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of using mobile … money as a tool to promote agricultural investment. For this purpose, we designed and conducted a field experiment with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140124
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Optimal taxation with capital accumulation and wage bargaining
Palokangas, Tapio K. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001876718
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The impact of education on the subjective discount rate in Ugandan villages
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009
Heterogeneity in time discounting may reinforce the existing barriers to save and invest faced by rural populations in developing countries. We elicit a subjective discount rate for a varied sample of Ugandan villagers. In accordance with other studies, we have found the discount rate to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824853
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The role of demographics in precipitating crises in financial institutions
Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009
There are significant effects of changing demographics on economic indicators: growth in GDP especially, but also the current account balance and gross capital formation. The 15-24 age group appears to be one of the key age groups in these effects, with increases in that age group exerting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900319
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Efficient tax policy ranks education higher than saving
Richter, Wolfram F. (contributor) - 2008
human and nonhuman capital investment ; power law of learning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003688797
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Rebalancing growth in Asia
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2009
region. In terms of sheer magnitudes, China's national savings and current account surpluses dominate the region's saving-investment …. -- Growth contributions ; national savings and investment ; current account balance ; welfare consequences of growth … growth. Investment growth has dominated GDP growth in China during this decade but is also important in the cases of India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879333
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Constrained firms, not subsistence activities : evidence on capital returns and accumulation in Peruvian microenterprises
Göbel, Kristin; Grimm, Michael; Lay, Jann - 2012
small enterprises ; credit constraints ; risk ; risk aversion ; firm growth ; Peru …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009627349
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How to help the poor to save a bit : evidence from a field experiment in Kenya
Akbas, Merve; Ariely, Dan; Robalino Aguirre, David A.; … - 2016
Partnering with a savings product provider in Kenya, we tested the extent to which behavioral interventions and … participants were asked to keep track of their weekly deposits (3) a match of weekly savings: The match was either 10% or 20% up to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011497226
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The effect of increasing the early retirement age on savings behavior before retirement
Etgeton, Stefan; Fischer, Björn; Ye, Han - 2019
age for women born after 1951 in Germany, we show evidence of a reduction in private savings rate and an increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012133536
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On the commitment needs of partially naive agents
Liu, Pan; Andersen, Torben M.; Bhattacharya, Joydeep - 2020
Time-inconsistent, present-biased agents may hold commitment assets hoping to keep their current and future present bias in check. Paternalistic governments, in an effort to help such people, routinely offer commitment machinery such as restrictions (or bans) on early withdrawals from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012203129