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Intra-household bargaining in poor countries

Baland, Jean-Marie; Ziparo, Roberta - 2017

marriages, strategic investment, gender norms, and extended households play in the attainment of efficiency. …

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The elasticity of substitution and labour-displacing technical change in post-apartheid South Africa

Kreuser, Friedrich; Burger, Rulof; Rankin, Neil - 2015

This paper uses normalized constant elasticity of substitution production functions to estimate the elasticity of substitution and labour-augmenting technical change in South Africa over the period 1994-2012. We find elasticities of 0.6-0.9 and positive labour-augmenting technical change, which...

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Structural transformation, biased technological change, and employment in Vietnam

Abbott, Philip Chase; Tarp, Finn; Wu, Ce - 2015

Employment in Vietnam and elsewhere in Asia has grown more slowly than GDP over the last several decades. This means GDP per capita is rising. Vietnamese policymakers, however, are concerned that ongoing structural transformation is creating too few jobs. We use data for seven aggregated sectors...

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The economic gains of closing the employment gender gap : evidence from Morocco

Bargain, Olivier; Lo Bue, Maria C. - 2021

The present paper sheds new light on the growth implications of gender inequalities in the Moroccan labour market. We confront two different approaches. The first one is based on firm data to estimate gender complementarity in production and uses this information for simulations based on a...

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Fiscal decentralization and efficiency of public services delivery by local governments in Ghana

Otoo, Isaac; Danquah, Michael - 2021

In this paper, we estimate the efficiency of Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in Ghana, and … investigate the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of local public goods and services delivery by MMDAs. Using … MMDAs' internally generated funds as a share of their total revenue has a positive influence on the efficiency of MMDAs …

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The hard challenge of aid co-ordination

Bourguignon, François; Platteau, Jean-Philippe - 2013

more effectiveness and efficiency in delivering development assistance. This paper seeks to clarify some of the arguments …

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Climate change and developing country interests : cases from the Zambezi River Basin

Arndt, Channing; Chinowsky, Paul; Fant, Charles; … - 2015

We consider the interplay of climate change impacts, global mitigation policies, and the interests of developing countries to 2050. Focusing on Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, we employ a structural approach to biophysical and economic modeling that incorporates climate uncertainty and allows...

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General budget support, health expenditures, and neonatal mortality rate : a synthetic control approach

Alavuotunki, Kaisa - 2015

I examine impacts of general budget support in 12 countries using the synthetic control approach. First, I analyse changes in government expenditures on health before and after the introduction of budget support. Second, I look at neonatal mortality (a presumed proxy for improvements in health...

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Aid, social policy, and development

Addison, Tony; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Tarp, Finn - 2015

This paper discusses past and current social policy strategies in the international aid architecture. From the 1990s, aid strategy and policy shifted to put a stronger emphasis on human development. This accelerated with the Millennium Development Goals and will continue under the Sustainable...

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Prospects for grid-connected solar photovoltaic in Kenya : a systems approach

Rose, Amy; Stoner, Robert J.; Pérez-Arriaga, Ignacio - 2014

Capacity planners in developing countries frequently use screening curves and other system-independent metrics such as levelized cost of energy to guide investment decisions. This can lead to spurious conclusions when evaluating intermittent power sources such as solar and wind. We use a...

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