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Duflo, Esther; Pande, Rohini - 2022

dam is built, agricultural production does not increase but poverty does. In contrast, districts located downstream from … the dam benefit from increased irrigation and see agricultural production increase and poverty fall. Overall, our … estimates suggest that large dam construction in India is a marginally cost-effective investment with significant distributional …

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Comparing Economic and Social Interventions to Reduce Intimate Partner Violence : Evidence from Central and Southern Africa

Plumb, Radha - 2014

The empowerment of women within households remains a major issue around the world including in Africa. We have conducted a study in Burundi coupling discussion sessions with microfinancing to determine if they enhance the role of women in decisions regarding household purchases and the reduction...

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Damming the Commons : An Empirical Analysis of International Cooperation and Conflict in Dam Location

Olmstead, Sheila M. - 2014

This paper examines whether countries consider the welfare of other nations when they make water development decisions. We estimate econometric models of the location of major dams around the world as a function of the degree of international sharing of rivers. We find that dams are more...

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Are Resettled Oustees from the Sardar Sarovar Dam Project Better Off Today than Their Former Neighbors Who Were Not Ousted?

Aiyar, Swaminathan - 2018

The Sardar Sarovar Dam in Gujarat is arguably the most controversial dam ever built in India, with over a 100 … to the dam from influential NGOs, there is no systematic empirical study of its effects on the long-term wellbeing of the … ousted families. Our study investigates: Are resettled oustees from the Sardar Sarovar Dam project better off in 2017 …

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Sex Differences in Obesity Rates in Poor Countries : Evidence from South Africa

Case, Anne - 2010

exertion and food intake -- and the underlying causes of obesity -- childhood and adult poverty, depression, and attitudes …

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Cape Verde and Mozambique as Development Successes in West and Southern Africa

Braga de Macedo, Jorge - 2010

education and poverty reduction). Moreover, both countries reveal convergence compared to their sub-regional peers when looking …

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Competitive Liberalization and a Us-Sacu FTA

Whalley, John; Leith, James Clark - 2022

This paper evaluates a possible US-SACU (Southern African Customs Union) free trade agreement as part of a US approach to new preferential trade agreements characterized by the term competitive liberalization.' This is the idea that competition among large countries (US/EU) to negotiate...

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Charging Ahead : Prepaid Electricity Metering in South Africa

Jack, B. Kelsey - 2016

The standard approach to recovering the cost of electricity provision is to bill customers monthly for past consumption. If unable to pay, customers face disconnection, the utility loses revenue, and the service provision model is undermined. A possible solution to this problem is prepaid...

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The Curley Effect

Glaeser, Edward L.; Shleifer, Andrei - 2021

James Michael Curley, a four-time mayor of Boston, used wasteful redistribution to his poor Irish constituents and incendiary rhetoric to encourage richer citizens to emigrate from Boston, thereby shaping the electorate in his favor. Boston as a consequence stagnated, but Curley kept winning...

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Wage and Productivity Premiums in Sub-Saharan Africa

Van Biesebroeck, Johannes - 2013

accurate test. The results indicate that equality holds strongly for the most developed country in the sample (Zimbabwe), but …

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