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Financial inclusion and nutrition among rural households in Rwanda
Swain, Ranjula Bali; Nsabimana, Aimable - 2023
We investigate if financial inclusion leads to improved nutrition in rural Rwanda, using Rwandan Integrated Household Living Conditions surveys (2013/14 and 2016/17). Our empirical evidence shows a robust positive impact of financial inclusion efforts undertaken by formal financial institutions,...
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Savings by and for the poor : a research review and agenda
Karlan, Dean; Ratan, Aishwarya Lakshmi; Zinman, Jonathan - 2014
The poor can and do save, but often use formal or informal instruments that have high risk, high cost, and limited functionality. This could lead to undersaving compared to a world without market or behavioural frictions. Undersaving can have important welfare consequences: variable consumption,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339591
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Crowding out effects of financial knowledge and attitude on risk preferences : evidence from a least developed African country
Tacneng, Ruth; Puzon, Klarizze Anne Martin; Barry, … - 2021
Using hand-collected survey and experimental data, we examine the determinants of financial literacy as well as the link between self-reported risk and elicited risk preferences in a least developed African country, Guinea. We measure financial literacy as the sum of three elements: financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012509304
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Capital flight and foreign direct investment in Africa : an investigation of the role of natural resource endowment
Ndikumana, Léonce; Sarr, Mare - 2016
investment (FDI) inflows in Africa and capital flight from the continent over the past decades. It specifically explores two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011460045
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Financial liberalization and its implications for private savings in sub-Saharan Africa
Asiedu, Elizabeth; Asiseh, Fafanyo; Mannah-Blankson, Theresa - 2022
savings in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), with a focus on the effect of financial liberalization on private savings. It also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013279902
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Aid and infrastructure financing : emerging challenges with a focus on Africa
Addison, Tony; Anand, Prathivadi Bhayankaram - 2012
, especially in Africa, the role of foreign aid in the future should be distinctly different. While aid will be required to … ; infrastructure ; Africa ; finance ; funds ; private sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009541849
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Trust a few: natural disasters and the formation of trust in Africa
Mackay, Robert; Mavisakalyan, Astghik; Tarverdi, Yashar - 2023
Individuals are at their most mental plasticity in their impressionable years (ages 18-25 years) forming long-term attitudes and behaviours essential to functioning in a society, such as trust. In this paper we ask how exposure to natural disasters within the impressionable years may affect the...
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Building a conservative welfare state in Botswana
Seekings, Jeremy - 2017
Botswana's welfare state is both a parsimonious laggard in comparison with some other middle-income countries in Africa … (such as Mauritius and South Africa) and extensive (in comparison with its low-income neighbours to the north and east … contract - to those of its neighbours in Southern Africa. It is the result of the specific character of poverty in Botswana and …
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Development of the animal feed to poultry value chain across Botswana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe
Ncube, Phumzile; Roberts, Simon; Zengeni, Tatenda - 2016
South African, firms across the region. We examine the developments in the value chain across countries in southern Africa … southern Africa given their ability to make co-ordinated investments at different levels and to realize the competitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431788
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Analysis of the animal feed to poultry value chain in Zambia
Samboko, Paul C.; Zulu-Mbata, Olipa; Chapoto, Antony - 2017
products across Southern Africa with scope for gains from trade and regional integration. We analyse the animal feed to poultry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011627723