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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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This paper develops a framework for the quantitative analysis of individual income dynamics, mobility and welfare. Individual income is assumed to follow a stochastic process with two (unobserved) components, component representing measurement error or transitory income shocks and an...
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Studies of risk and its consequences tend to focus on one risk factor, such as a drought or an economic crisis. Yet 2003 household surveys in rural Kilimanjaro and Ruvuma, two cash-crop-growing regions in Tanzania that experienced a precipitous coffee price decline around the turn of the...
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The author examines, taking into account the urban-rural divides, the changes and welfare implications of income diversification in Zimbabwe following macroeconomic policy changes and droughts of the early 1990s. Data from two comparable national income, consumption and expenditure surveys in...
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Road construction has often been viewed as the precursor to deforestation, especially in tropical forests. Traditional responses to such threats have been reactive, with attempts to mitigate impacts through physical measures, or the establishment of protected areas. These approaches often have...
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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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