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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 …

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Measuring Women's Empowerment in Rwanda

Musonera, Abdou; Heshmati, Almas - 2016

This study examines the determinants of women's empowerment in Rwanda using data obtained from DHS 2010. A regression …

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Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment

Batista, Catia; Silverman, Dan; Yang, Dean - 2013

We investigate the determinants of giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment with large stakes. Study participants in urban Mozambique play dictator games where their counterpart is the closest person to them outside their household. Dictators share more with counterparts when they have the option...

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Improving Access to Savings through Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence from African Smallholder Farmers

Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2019

Investment in improved agricultural inputs is infrequent for smallholder farmers in Africa. One barrier may be limited access to formal savings. This is the first study to use a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of using mobile money as a tool to promote agricultural investment....

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Adopting Mobile Money: Evidence from an Experiment in Rural Africa

Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2020

Who uses mobile money? What is mobile money used for? This paper describes the mobile money adoption patterns following the experimental introduction of mobile money for the first time in rural areas of Southern Mozambique. We use a combination of administrative and household survey data to...

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Is Mobile Money Changing Rural Africa? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2023

Rural areas in Sub-Saharan Africa are typically underserved by financial services. Mobile money brings a substantial reduction in the transaction costs of remittances. We follow the introduction of mobile money for the first time in rural villages of Mozambique using a randomized field...

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Return Migration, Self-Selection and Entrepreneurship in Mozambique

Batista, Catia; McIndoe Calder, Tara; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2014

Does return migration affect entrepreneurship? This question has important implications for the debate on the economic development effects of migration for origin countries. The existing literature has, however, not addressed how the estimation of the impact of return migration on...

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Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment

Batista, Catia; Silverman, Dan; Yang, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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Return Migration, Self-Selection and Entrepreneurship in Mozambique

Batista, Catia; McIndoe Calder, Tara; Vicente, Pedro C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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On the multivariate analysis of the Lisbon process

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas; Bajalan, Chemen S.J. - 2007

Starting from Professor Kornai's assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-term perspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performance of the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective. We present in a simple form...

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