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Mobile Internet Adoption in West Africa
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Ochoa, Rogelio; Lach, Samantha - 2021
Mobile broadband internet is the main technology through which individuals access the internet in developing countries … surveys in seven countries in West Africa in 2018/19 — a subregion with one of the lowest levels of mobile internet … penetration in the world — to identify the main factors that limit mobile broadband internet adoption. Results show that low …
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Inequality and Growth in Rural China : Does Higher Inequality Impede Growth?
Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; Giles, John - 2021
incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural China, we find robust evidence that initial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317407
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Modernization of Agriculture and Long-Term Growth
Yang, Dennis Tao - 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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Geography vs. Institutions at the Village Level
Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2021
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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Impacts of Rural Electrification in Rwanda
Bensch, Gunther - 2011
Rural electrification is believed to contribute to the achievement of the MDG. In this paper, we investigate electrification impacts on different indicators. We use household data that we collected in Rwanda in villages with and without electricity access. We account for self-selection and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117194
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Rural Windfall or a New Resource Curse? Coca, Income, and Civil Conflict in Colombia
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2007
Natural and agricultural resources for which there is a substantial black market, such as coca, opium, and diamonds, appear especially likely to be exploited by the parties to a civil conflict. Even legally traded commodities such as oil and timber have been linked to civil war. On the other...
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The Impact of Education on the Subjective Discount Rate in Ugandan Villages
Bauer, Michal - 2009
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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Are Hispanic Immigrant Families Reviving the Economies of America's Small Towns?
Coates, Dennis - 2010
In the 1990s, rural areas and small towns in the United States, which had been losing population, became the destinations for an increasing number of Hispanic immigrants and their families, slowing and in some cases reversing population declines. In this paper, we examine whether faster growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148353
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Replacing Churches and Mason Lodges? Tax Exemptions and Rural Development
Behaghel, Luc - 2014
This paper uses regression discontinuity design to provide quasi-experimental estimates of the impact of a tax credit program targeted at rural areas in France, including corporate and payroll tax exemptions. We find no impact of the program on total employment or the number of businesses, and...
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Living in Rural Areas and Self-Employment
Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, Jose Alberto; Velilla, Jorge - 2022
This paper examines whether workers living in rural areas are more likely to be self-employed, compared with those in urban areas. We provide evidence for 35 European countries, using the European Working Conditions Survey for the year 2015. We also study the time devoted to market work, and...
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