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This paper studies the general equilibrium impact of civil war in Sierra Leone. I first use an instrumental variable (IV) strategy and geographic conflict variation to estimate reduced-form effects. I show that civil war leads to affected areas having a higher share of workers in agriculture,...
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The social and ecomomic impact of COVID-19 has been deep, wide-ranging, and multidimensional. While anecdotal evidence of distress among the poor, particularly those with informal occupations, has been widespread, effective policy response has required real-time, researched data disaggregated...
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In this paper, we examine the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the livelihoods of the poor. We use an … significant negative effects on the livelihoods of the poor in our study, with financial inflows and outflows, incomes, and …
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The most important determinant of households' livelihoods is how much they earn for their labour. People in informal …
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2018, we study how the livelihoods of Chinese workers change when transitioning to different work statuses within or … the self-employed to the wage-employed increases earnings, which improves the livelihoods of Chinese workers. …
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There has long been an emphasis on the importance of decentralization in providing better quality public services in … the developing world. In order to assess the effectiveness of decentralization I examine here the case study of Uganda …, which has seen major decentralization of power over the last quarter-century. Initial excitement about Uganda …
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. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …
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We explore the relationship between connections and public transfers in decentralized poverty-targeting programmes. Using panel data from Vietnam we find evidence that households with connections to local government are more likely to be classified as poor, the main determinant of whether...
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the civil war in the early 1990s, the decentralization process began in Mozambique. Different research developed in recent … years shows that, as is the case in other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the impact of the decentralization reforms on the … explained? Based on three important reforms in the decentralization process in Mozambique, namely the '7 million …
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The development of institutions of self-governance in India, and specifically the 2005 reform - the National Rural Health Mission that introduced village health and sanitation committees - provide a unique opportunity to study the effects of the strengthening of the political agency on...
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