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"The aim of this paper is to understand the mechanism underlying access to credit. Gine focuses on two important aspects of rural credit markets in Thailand. First, moneylenders and other informal lenders coexist with formal lending institutions such as government or commercial banks, and more...
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"Access to transfers and credit, whether cash or in-kind, is a major source of poverty alleviation and income generation in many developing countries around the world. Women may especially benefit from transfers and credit in countries such as Bangladesh, where they often have few work...
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"Increasing adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa raises considerable concerns about the welfare of surviving children. Studies have found substantial variability across countries in the negative impacts of orphanhood on child health and education. One hypothesis for this...
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access to financial services for some groups, especially the rural poor. The privatization of Tanzania's National Bank of …
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Tanzania. The model incorporates productivity effects in both goods and services markets endogenously, through a Dixit … by specialists in Tanzania. The authors estimate that Tanzania will gain about 5.3 percent of the value of Tanzanian …. Decomposition exercises reveal that the largest gains to Tanzania will derive from liberalization of costly regulatory barriers that …
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Tanzania. Using longitudinal data on individuals, the authors estimate the impact of migration on consumption growth between …
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Tanzania and possible tax policy responses in the short, medium, and long term. The results suggest that global commodity … households in the medium to long run. In comparison with nonpoor households, poor households in Tanzania may be relatively …
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"This paper exploits a unique longitudinal data set from Tanzania to examine the consequences of child labor on …
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business in rural Tanzania. Using unique survey data, the authors describe a low-return sector struggling to compete in a … enterprise constraints in Tanzania mainly operate from the supply side. This suggests that, in particular, access to finance …
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paper exploits this feature of the data for Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania. The analysis yields two …
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