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Recovery performance of primary agriculture credit societies in India : an assessment

Mazumder, Rabin; Chakravarty, Chandrasekhar; Bhandari, … - 2014

credit has still remained scarce in India. Primary Agriculture Credit Societies (PACS) working at grass-root level, having … institution. The present study examines the recovery performance of rural credit given by PACS in six different regions of India … Bank of India in collaboration with State Governments. …

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Volume, risk, complexity : what makes development finance projects succeed or fail?

Eilers, Yota; Kluve, Jochen; Langbein, Jörg; Reiners, … - 2023

In 2022, governments around the world committed USD 211 bn. to official development assistance. Despite these high contributions, systematic assessments of the determinants of success - or failure - of development aid projects remain limited, particularly for bilateral development aid. This...

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Geography vs. institutions at the village level

Grimm, Michael (contributor); Klasen, Stephan (contributor) - 2008

There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity cannot...

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Modernization of agriculture and long-term growth

Yang, Dennis Tao; Zhu, Xiaodong - 2010

This paper develops a two-sector model that illuminates the role played by agricultural modernization in the transition from stagnation to growth. When agriculture relies on traditional technology, industrial development reduces the relative price of industrial products, but has a limited effect...

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Agricultural extension and technology adoption for food security : evidence from Uganda

Pan, Yao; Smith, Stephen C.; Sulaiman, Munshi - 2015

This paper evaluates causal impacts of a large-scale agricultural extension program for smallholder women farmers on food security in Uganda through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an arbitrary distance-to-branch threshold for village program eligibility. We find eligible farmers...

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Where has all the money gone? : Foreign aid and the quest for growth

Chatterjee, Santanu (contributor); … - 2007

This paper examines fungibility as a possible explanation for the "missing link" between foreign aid and economic growth. The composition of aid plays a crucial role in determining the composition of government spending and, consequently, the magnitude of fungibility and its impact on growth....

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The costs of favoritism : is politically-driven aid less effective?

Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2010

As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that...

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Liquidity or capital? : the impacts of easing credit constraints in rural Mexico

Aparicio, Gabriela; Bobić, Vida; De Olloqui, Fernando; … - 2021

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of easing credit constraints for rural producers in Mexico through loans provided by a national public development finance institution (DFI). In contrast to most of the existing literature, the study focuses on the effect of medium-sized loans over a two-...

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The elite and the marginalised : an analysis of public spending on mass education in the Indian States

Pal, Sarmistha (contributor); Ghosh, Sugata (contributor) - 2008

-development spending ; India …

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Caste based discrimination : evidence and policy

Siddique, Zahra (contributor) - 2008

Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate …

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