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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/10011744567
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Infrastructure Grants and the Performance of Microenterprises
Chaurey, Ritam; Le, Duong Trung - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931714
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931851
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Does Promoting School Attendance Reduce Child Labour? Evidence from Burkina Faso's BRIGHT Project
de Hoop, Jacobus; Rosati, Furio C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Using data from BRIGHT, an integrated program that aims to improve school participation in rural communities in Burkina Faso, we investigate the impact of school subsidies and increased access to education on child work. Regression discontinuity estimates demonstrate that, while BRIGHT...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011168618
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Does promoting school attendance reduce child labour? Evidence from Burkina Faso's BRIGHT project
de Hoop, Jacobus; Rosati, Furio C. - 2012
Using data from BRIGHT, an integrated program that aims to improve school participation in rural communities in Burkina Faso, we investigate the impact of school subsidies and increased access to education on child work. Regression discontinuity estimates demonstrate that, while BRIGHT...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283960
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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/10011525048
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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/10010282474
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Surviving the Genocide: The Impact of the Rwandan Genocide on Child Mortality
Ciani, Federico; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10010685861
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The Effects of Conflict on Fertility: Evidence from the Genocide in Rwanda
Krähnert, 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/10012006028
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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/10010319523