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Keeping the Doctor Away : Experimental Evidence on Investment in Preventative Health Products
Meredith, Jennifer - 2013
curves for health products in Kenya, Guatemala, India, and Uganda and test whether (1) information about health risk, (2 …
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Aging and Death Under a Dollar a Day
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2010
more likely to be alive than the poor's mothers. Using panel data set for Indonesia and Vietnam, we also find that older …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759650
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Resolving the African Financial Development Gap : Cross-Country Comparisons and a Within-Country Study of Kenya
Allen, Franklin - 2012
focus on Kenya, which has made significant strides in financial inclusion and development in recent years. We find a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107224
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Borrowing Requirements, Credit Access, and Adverse Selection : Evidence from Kenya
Jack, William - 2016
Do the stringent formal sector borrowing requirements common in many developing countries restrict credit access, technology adoption, and welfare? When a Kenyan dairy's savings and credit cooperative randomly offered some farmers the opportunity to replace loans with high down payments and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982035
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The Impact of Domestic Travel Bans on Covid-19 is Nonlinear in Their Duration
Burlig, Fiona; Sudarshan, Anant; Schlauch, Garrison - 2021
using a natural experiment in India as well as data from China, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa, and Kenya …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013230605
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Structural Change, Fundamentals and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies
McMillan, Margaret - 2017
development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries—Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil —all … industrialization only played a significant role in Vietnam …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956929
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The Historical State, Local Collective Action, and Economic Development in Vietnam
Dell, Melissa - 2017
This study examines how the historical state conditions long-run development, using Vietnam as a laboratory. Northern … Vietnam (Dai Viet) was ruled by a strong centralized state in which the village was the fundamental administrative unit …. Southern Vietnam was a peripheral tributary of the Khmer (Cambodian) Empire, which followed a patron-client model with weaker …
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Entry and Exit of Informal Firms and Development
McCaig, Brian; Pavcnik, Nina - 2023
across regions with varying levels of local economic development in Vietnam. First, we find that informal businesses exhibit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014259546
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The Value of Luminosity Data as a Proxy for Economic Statistics
Chen, Xi - 2010
One of the pervasive issues in social and environmental research has been to improve the quality of socioeconomic data in developing countries. Because of the shortcoming of standard data sources, the present study examines luminosity (measures of nighttime lights) as a proxy for standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138765
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The Future of Economic Convergence
Rodrik, Dani - 2011
The question addressed in this paper is whether the gap in performance between the developed and developing worlds can continue, and in particular, whether developing nations can sustain the rapid growth they have experienced of late. The good news is that growth in the developing world should...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120308