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This paper reports on a two-tiered experiment designed to separately identify the selection and effort margins of pay-for-performance (P4P). At the recruitment stage, teacher labor markets were randomly assigned to a 'pay-for-percentile' or fixed-wage contract. Once recruits were placed, an...
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The inflow of large quantities of foreign aid into Rwanda since 1994 can have potential adverse effects such as aid … Rwanda to show, in line with other studies in the literature, a negative relationship between increased aid and the tax rate …; but the magnitude of the effects are extremely small. In the case of Rwanda, reforms to the tax administration and …
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productivity in Rwanda during the period 1995-2003. Based on a constant returns-to-scale Cobb-Douglas production function, this …. Taken together, the findings for Rwanda presented in this paper show that the strong growth of the past decade has not just … productivity of the economy and stimulating growth in Rwanda. For sustained growth, the Rwandan authorities should continue to …
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The Poverty Reduction Strategy of the Government of Rwanda seeks to unlock the growth and poverty reduction potential …
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school-going age. In Rwanda school enrollment trends suggest that the school system recovered quickly after 1994, but these …
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Did increases in mask supply slow the spread of COVID-19 Rwanda licensed and incentivized textile manufacturers to …
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Economic shocks at birth have lasting effects on children's health several years after the shock. The authors calculate height for age z-scores for children under age five using data from a Rwandan nationally representative household survey conducted in 1992. They exploit district and time...
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, more nurture, or both? The author uses household survey data from Rwanda that contains a large proportion of children …
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For Rwanda, one of the poorest countries in the world, trade offers the most effective route for substantial poverty … reduction. But the poor in Rwanda, most of whom are subsistence farmers in rural areas, are currently disconnected from markets … subsistence farming. The constraints include lack of access to credit and lack of access to information on the skills and …
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care in Rwanda on child health outcomes. The authors find that the incentives had a large and significant effect on the …
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