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Estimating the Impact of Microcredit on Those Who Take It Up : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Morocco

Crépon, Bruno - 2014

Morocco starting in 2006 by Al Amana, the country's largest microfinance institution. Al Amana was the only MFI operating in …

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Turning a Shove into a Nudge? A "Labeled Cash Transfer" for Education

Benhassine, Najy - 2013

make them expensive. We use a large randomized experiment in Morocco to estimate an alternative government-run program, a …

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Happiness on Tap : Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco

Devoto, Florencia - 2011

We study the demand for household water connections in urban Morocco, and the effect of such connections on household …

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Moving to Greener Pastures? Multinationals and the Pollution Haven Hypothesis

Eskeland, Gunnar A. - 2002

This paper presents evidence on whether multinationals are flocking to developing country 'pollution havens'. Although we find some evidence that foreign investors locate in sectors with high levels of air pollution, the evidence is weak at best. We then examine whether foreign firms pollute...

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Who Gains from Trade Reform? Some Remaining Puzzles

Harrison, Ann - 1999

This paper focuses on three unresolved issues with regard to the impact of trade reform. First, many studies linking trade reform to long run growth are surprisingly fragile. To illustrate the problems with this literature, we examine a popular measure of openness recently introduced by Sachs...

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Is "Learning-by-Exporting" Important? Micro-Dynamic Evidence from Colombia, Mexico and Morocco

Clerides, Sofronis - 1996

Is there any empirical evidence that firms become more efficient after becoming exporters? Do firms that become exporters generate positive spillovers for domestically-oriented producers? In this paper we analyze the causal links between exporting and productivity using firm-level panel data...

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A Political Economy Theory of Partial Decentralization

Hatfield, John William - 2008

. Decentralization provides such a commitment: local governments avoid using capital taxes due to the pressure of tax competition. We … partial decentralization. A capital poor median voter wants to use capital taxes to provide public goods. This results in … therefore obtain that the median voter favors a partial degree of decentralization. The equilibrium degree of decentralization …

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Transboundary Spillovers and Decentralization of Environmental Policies

Sigman, Hilary - 2004

regulations; states with this responsibility are referred to as "authorized'' or having "primacy.'' Although such decentralization …

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Letting States do the Dirty Work : State Responsibility for Federal Environmental Regulation

Sigman, Hilary - 2003

of regulation and is perhaps the most significant decentralization in U.S. environmental policy. However, few studies … authorize to increase the stringency of regulation, which suggests that environmental decentralization would be beneficial …

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The Fractured-Land Hypothesis

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús - 2020

Patterns of political unification and fragmentation have crucial implications for comparative economic development. Diamond (1997) famously argued that "fractured land" was responsible for China's tendency toward political unification and Europe's protracted political fragmentation. We build a...

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