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The kin system as a poverty trap?
Hoff, Karla Ruth; Sen, Arijit - 2005
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Capital fundamentalism, economic development, and economic growth
King, Robert G.; Levine, Ross - 1994
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000143447
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Moral hazard vs. land scarcity : flood management policies for the real world
Avner, Paolo; Hallegatte, Stéphane - 2019
This paper investigates the costs and benefits of three ex ante flood management strategies - risk-based insurance, zoning, and subsidized insurance - in an urban economics framework that takes land scarcity into account. In a theoretical setting and in the absence of market failures, risk-based...
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Financing infrastructure in developing countries : lessons from the railway age
Eichengreen, Barry - 1994
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When is foreign aid policy credible? : Aid dependence and conditionality
Svensson, Jakob - 1997
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Corruption under moral hazard
Eskeland, Gunnar S.; Thiele, Henrik - 1999
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Interlinkage, limited liability, and strategic interaction
Basu, Kaushik; Bell, Clive; Bose, Pinaki - 1999
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Bank runs and moral hazard : a review of deposit insurance
Anginer, Deniz; Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2018
Deposit insurance is a widely adopted policy to promote financial stability in the banking sector. Deposit insurance helps ensure depositors' confidence in the financial system and prevents contagious bank runs, but it also comes with an unintended consequence of encouraging banks to take on...
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Incentivizing school attendance in the presence of parent-child information frictions
De Walque, Damien; Valente, Christine - 2018
Education conditional cash transfer programs may increase school attendance in part due to the information they transmit to parents about their child's attendance. This paper presents experimental evidence that the information content of an education conditional cash transfer program, when given...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011875225
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Mobile money and investment by women businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa
Islam, Asif; Muzi, Silvia - 2020
become widespread and have increased investment by businesses, especially in East Africa. Second, women-owned business in the … study connects the two findings by exploring whether mobile money use by women-owned firms increases their investment. The … findings indicate that the positive relationship between mobile money use and investment is largely driven by women-owned firms …
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