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The Costs of Favoritism : Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?
Dreher, Axel - 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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Preferential Market Access into the Chinese Market : How Good is it for Africa?
Co, Catherine Y. - 2014
In 2005 China provided duty-free access to 190 items from 25 least developed sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Three … years later duty-free access was extended to 454 items from 31 SSA LDCs. We find no evidence that China's preferential …
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Education and Fertility : Evidence from a Policy Change in Kenya
Chicoine, Luke - 2012
Kenya that lengthened primary school by one year. An instrumental variables approach measures the exogenous variation in …
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Got Technology? The Impact of Computers and Cell Phones on Productivity in a Difficult Business Climate : Evidence from Firms with Female Owners in Kenya
Menon, Nidhiya - 2014
Firms in Kenya rely on technologies such as computers, cell-phones, and generators to overcome constraints associated … missionary schools from Kenya's colonial past, as well as geographical indicators such as rainfall, changes in forest cover, and …
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The Jobs that Youth Want and the Support They Need to Get Them : Evidence from a Discrete Choice Experiment in Kenya
Elzir Assy, Angela - 2020
took place in urban areas in Kenya. We find that youth, in general, prefer to work in jobs that have the attributes of …
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Growing Markets Through Business Training for Female Entrepreneurs : A Market-Level Randomized Experiment in Kenya
McKenzie, David J. - 2017
of their unassisted competitors. We test this possibility using a two-stage randomized experiment in Kenya which …
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Migration, Remittances and Human Capital Investment in Kenya
Hines, Annie Laurie - 2018
Kenya. We use household level data from the 2009 Kenya Migration Household Survey (produced by the Africa Migration Project …
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Using Survey Questions to Measure Preferences : Lessons from an Experimental Validation in Kenya
Bauer, Michal - 2019
presents results of an experimental validation conducted among low-income individuals in Nairobi, Kenya.We find that …
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How to Help the Poor to Save a Bit : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya
Akbaş, Merve - 2016
Partnering with a savings product provider in Kenya, we tested the extent to which behavioral interventions and …
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Labour Productivity in Kenyan Manufacturing and Service Industries
Heshmati, Almas - 2016
productivity and its determinants in the manufacturing and service sectors in Kenya. As the largest economy in East Africa, it is … crucial for Kenya to have high labour productivity as it has strong implications for economic growth and welfare. The paper …
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