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Service sector development and its determinants in Rwanda
Uwitonze, Eric; Heshmati, Almas - 2016
an alternative to manufacturing-led development in Rwanda since its aims is to become a service-based hub to serve … Rwanda's economy and empirically estimate its determinants by using an econometric methodology. The empirical results are … based on micro-data collected during the Rwanda Enterprise Survey 2011 and the 2014 Establishment Census. The survey has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011520971
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Impacts of rural electrification in Rwanda
Bensch, Gunther; Kluve, Jochen; Peters, Jörg - 2011
electrification impacts on different indicators. We use household data that we collected in Rwanda in villages with and without …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523515
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Surviving the genocide : the impact of the Rwandan genocide on child mortality
Ciani, Federico; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2013
Between April and July 1994 Rwanda experienced a tremendous wave of inter-ethnic violence that caused at least 500 …,000 deaths. Combining birth history data drawn from the 2000 Rwanda Demographic and Health Survey with prefecture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786467
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Entrepreneurship education and teacher training in Rwanda
Blimpo, Moussa P.; Pugatch, Todd - 2020
delivery of a major entrepreneurship curriculum reform in Rwanda. The reform introduced interactive pedagogy and a focus on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271866
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Demand for off-grid solar electricity : experimental evidence from Rwanda
Grimm, Michael; Lenz, Luciane; Peters, Jörg; Sievert, … - 2016
Providing electricity to the unconnected 1.1 billion people in developing countries is one of the top political priorities of the international community, yet the costs of reaching this objective are very high. The present paper examines whether the objective and the associated costs are...
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The effects of conflict on fertility : evidence from the genocide in Rwanda
Schindler, Kati; Brück, Tilman; Di Maio, Michele; … - 2019
This paper analyzes the fertility effects of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. We study the effects of violence on both the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005503
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Unintended consequences of youth entrepreneurship programs : experimental evidence from Rwanda
Blimpo, Moussa P.; Pugatch, Todd - 2023
developing countries. We exploit exogenous variation in the implementation of Rwanda's entrepreneurship education reform in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014370335
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Entrepreneurship, education and the fourth industrial revolution in Africa
Naudé, Wim - 2017
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is impacting on the industrialization options for Africa inter alia through three interrelated sets of technologies, namely automation, additive manufacturing and the Industrial Internet. In this paper I set out the case for why Africa should industrialize....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011694809
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Structural transformation and spillovers from industrial areas
Blakeslee, David; Chaurey, Ritam; Fishman, Ram; Malik, … - 2018
Like many developing countries, India features a variety of land-use restrictions that make it difficult to establish industrial firms on agricultural lands. Such policies have received some of the blame for the slow pace of industrialization, and there is widespread agreement on the need for...
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Infrastructure grants and the performance of microenterprises
Chaurey, Ritam; Duong Trung Le - 2018
We evaluate the impact of a place-based infrastructure development scheme directed towards India's most "backward" districts, on the performance of microenterprises. "Backward" districts were selected based on a transparent score-based assignment mechanism. Using a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity...
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