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A framework for ex-ante economic impact assessment of tourism investments : an application to Haiti

Banerjee, Onil; Cicowiez, Martin; Gachot, Sebastien - 2015

the poverty headcount by 1.6 percentage points. Driving this result was an increase in employment, wages and non … regional economy-wide and poverty impacts of a US$36 million investment in tourism in the south of Haiti. The first social … representative household configuration to enable more robust analysis of tourism investment impacts on poverty and income inequality …

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Occupations and wealth in developing countries

Scarelli, Thiago - 2022

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Establishing cooperation between groups : ingroup versus outgroup punishment

Stoff, Christian (contributor) - 2006 - Revised: February 2006

We analyse interethnic cooperation in an infinitely repeated prisoner’s dilemma when members of one group are unable to … may sustain cooperation in this setting. Our main result, however, is that the introduction of ingroup punishment in … in situations where outgroup punishment alone fails to induce cooperation. Our findings are consistent with historical …

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Targeting credit through community members

Vera Cossío, Diego Alejandro - 2019

Limited borrower information may create targeting distortions in credit markets. Community-based lending programs may reduce these distortions by exploiting information transmitted in local networks, but connections may create asymmetries in power. This paper analyzes how local leaders balance...

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Remittances and the impact on crime in Mexico

Brito, Steve; Corbacho, Ana; Osorio Rivas, René - 2014

This working paper studies the effect of remittances from the United States on crime rates in Mexico. The topic is examined using municipal-level data on the percent of household receiving remittances and homicides per 100,000 inhabitants. Remittances are found to be associated with a decrease...

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Does access to better water and sanitation infrastructure improve child outcomes? : evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean

Schady, Norbert Rüdiger - 2015

I review the evidence on access to water and sanitation infrastructure and child outcomes In Latin America. I show that there are large differences in access across countries and, within countries, between households living in urban and rural areas. Many papers in the public health literature...

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Medición cuantitativa del subregistro de nacimientos e indocumentación Costos socioeconómicos en Perú y República Dominicana

Castro, Lucio; Rud, Juan Pablo - 2011

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Sex-differences in language and socio-emotional skills in early childhood

Bando Grana, Rosangela; López Bóo, Florencia; Li, Xia - 2016

This study explores sex differences in language and socio-emotional skills. It focuses on children 7 months old to 6 years old in Chile in 2012 and Nicaragua in 2013. A focus on young children allowed for ruling out a set of environmental and identity effects to explain the gap. Females had an...

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Does social capital create trust? : evidence from a community of entrepreneurs

Sabatini, Fabio - 2009

Which kind of social capital fosters the diffusion of development-oriented trust? This paper carries out an empirical investigation into the causal relationships connecting four types of social capital (i.e. bonding, bridging, linking, and corporate), and different forms of trust...

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Migration from Africa, the Middle East and European neighbouring countries to the EU : an augmented gravity modelling approach

Mara, Isilda; Landesmann, Michael - 2021

The South-North migration corridor, i.e. migration flows to the EU from Africa, the Middle East and EU neighbouring countries in the East, have overtaken the East-West migration corridor, i.e. migration flows from Central and East European countries to the EU15 and the European Free Trade...

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