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While the financial inclusion would induce greater pollutant emissions through its impact of economic activity, the increased access to financial services may unleash investments in green technologies. This papier investigates whether the financial inclusion influences the dynamic of carbon...
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While various empirical studies have found negative growth-effects of natural disasters, little is yet known about the … microeconomic channels through which disasters might affect short- and especially long-term growth. This paper contributes to …
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estimation, the paper estimates a growth model using the difference in the log of GDPC between periods t and t+1. Buttressed by … sufficient empirical evidence, the paper's findings corroborate that the Arab Spring had been negatively associated with growth …
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This paper documents the link between finance and informal competition. Using longitudinal firm-level data, we show … informal competition have worse expectations on future sales growth, which in turn are associated with a lower probability of … in firms' access to finance. …
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This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986 … capital on economic growth. And second, the contribution of immigrants to human capital accumulation tends to dominate the …
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.S. employers to estimate the effects of financial access on employment growth. Our methods combine regressions with matching on … constraints impede small business growth prior to loan receipt. We also investigate the variation in estimated employment effects …
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Digital loans are a source of fast, short-term credit for millions of people. While digital credit broadens market access and reduces frictions, default rates are high. We study the role of the speed of delivery of digital loans on repayment. Our study uses unique administrative data from a...
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We conduct a clustered randomized controlled trial across 180 villages in Uttar Pradesh, India, to promote the take-up of a savings commitment product newly introduced to our study population. A random subset of participants was targeted through our promotional campaign to test whether the...
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financial sector. -- Female entrepreneurship ; state sector ; informal finance …
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more dependent on external finance. We also decompose shifts in aggregate formalization into those within each firm size …
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