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Should Aid Reward Performance? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Health and Education in Indonesia

Olken, Benjamin A. - 2012

This paper reports an experiment in over 3,000 Indonesian villages designed to test the role of performance incentives in improving the efficacy of aid programs. Villages in a randomly-chosen one-third of subdistricts received a block grant to improve 12 maternal and child health and education...

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Information Constraints and Financial Aid Policy

Scott-Clayton, Judith - 2012

One justification for public support of higher education is that prospective students, particularly those from underprivileged groups, lack complete information about the costs and benefits of a college degree. Beyond financial considerations, students may also lack information about what they...

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Ethnic Remoteness Reduces the Peace Dividend from Trade Access

Desmet, Klaus; Gomes, Joseph Flavian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

. Exploiting the staggered implementation of the US-initiated Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and using high …-resolution data on ethnic composition and violent conflict for sub-Saharan Africa, our analysis finds that in the wake of improved …

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Industrial Clusters in the Long Run : Evidence from Million-Rouble Plants in China

Heblich, Stephan; Seror, Marlon; Xu, Hao; Zylberberg, Yanos - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We identify negative spillovers exerted by large, successful manufacturing plants on other local production facilities in China. A short-lived alliance between the U.S.S.R. and China led to the construction of 150 "Million-Rouble plants" in the 1950s. Our identification strategy exploits the...

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Deals versus rules : policy implementation uncertainty and why firms hate it

Hallward-Driemeier, Mary - 2010

"Firms in Africa report "regulatory and economic policy uncertainty" as a top constraint to their growth. We argue that … often firms in Africa do not cope with policy rules, rather they face deals; firm-specific policy actions that can be … uncorrelated with ex-post firm-level responses, further evidence that deals rather than rules prevail in Africa. Strikingly, the …

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Mobile Money, Interoperability, and Financial Inclusion

Brunnermeier, Markus Konrad; Limodio, Nicola; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper investigates the tradeoff between competition and financial inclusion resulting from the vertical integration between mobile network and money operators. Joining newly assembled data on mobile money fees through the WayBack machine, with sources on network coverage and financials, we...

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Bank Runs and Banking Policies : Lessons for African Policymakers

Kane, Edward J. - 2000

This paper documents and explains the near-permanent banking stress African countries have experienced during the last 20 years. The central hypothesis is that banking stress comes predominantly from unbooked losses and that the level of unbooked losses a banking system can accumulate depends on...

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Intergenerational Mobility in Africa

Alesina, Alberto - 2019

We examine intergenerational mobility (IM) in educational attainment in Africa since independence, using census data …

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Spatial Inefficiencies in Africa's Trade Network

Graff, Tilman - 2019

I assess the efficiency of transport networks for every country in Africa. Using rich spatial data, I simulate trade … road system for every African state. My simulations predict that Africa would gain 1.1% of total welfare from better …

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Subsidies and the African Green Revolution : Direct Effects and Social Network Spillovers of Randomized Input Subsidies in Mozambique

Carter, Michael - 2019

-Saharan Africa. We study the first randomized controlled trial of a government-implemented input subsidy program (ISP) in Africa. A …

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