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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...
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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 …
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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...
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human and nonhuman capital investment ; power law of learning …
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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 …
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households (MHH) in Tanzania as well as with the underlying cause of potentially different patterns. I estimate semiparametric …
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survey experiment in Tanzania that varied two key dimensions: the level of detail of the questions and the type of respondent … design ; Tanzania ; field experiment …
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homes. Over the course of a few months, Kagera - a region in northwestern Tanzania - received more than 500,000 refugees …
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randomized survey experiment in Tanzania focusing on two survey aspects: different questionnaire design to classify children work … collected. -- child labor ; survey design ; Tanzania …
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