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Public-private co-operation for gas provision in poor neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires : impact on housing improvements and health
Goytia, Cynthia; Pasquini, Ricardo; Sanguinetti, Pablo José - 2011
This study examines the programme Redes Solidarias, a public-private initiative that connected to natural pipelined gas 4,000 households in the Great Buenos Aires Area during 2005. The main features of the institutional framework are described and the main results of an impact estimation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008991495
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Evaluating antipoverty transfer programmes in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa : better policies? ; better politics?
Barrientos, Armando; Villa, Juan M. - 2013
The paper provides a comparative analysis of the incidence of evaluation methods in antipoverty transfer programmes in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. The paper identifies two broad explanations for the incidence of evaluation in antipoverty transfer programmes in developing countries, one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009702958
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Internal migration and crime in Brazil
Egger, Eva-Maria - 2019
migration on crime with longitudinal data from Brazilian microregiões. Using local labour demand shocks in the manufacturing … per cent increase in the homicide rate in destinations. Exploring possible channels, I do not find that crime …-prone migrants drive the results. The effect is only significant in locations with high past crime rates, indicating crime inertia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161316
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Governance and the reversal of women's rights : the case of abortion in El Salvador
Viterna, Jocelyn; Guardado Bautista, Jose Santos; … - 2017
States' governance of gender is not unidirectional. In addition to 'stagnation' and 'progress', there can be an active reversal of rights already granted to women. Using the case of abortion rights in El Salvador, this paper investigates the following questions: What are the likely causes of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776457
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Local crime and early marriage : evidence from India
Sarkar, Sudipa - 2021
This paper analyses whether living in a locality with high crime against women affects the probability of early … live in a high-crime locality would marry their daughters off at an early age to protect the chastity of their daughters … from any sexual violence. However, there would be no similar effect of perceived crime in the locality on the marriage of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012434262
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It's all about meE : using structured experiential learning ('e') to crawl the design space
Pritchett, Lant; Samji, Salimah; Hammer, Jeffrey S. - 2012
-project variations in design can serve as their own counter-factual and this dramatically reduces the incremental cost of evaluation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009728135
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The behavioural implications of women's empowerment programmes
Gangadharan, Lata; Jain, Tarun; Maitra, Pushkar; Vecci, … - 2016
Participatory community programmes are a potentially important tool for social empowerment and economic development. How do participatory programmes that specifically target women affect community trust and cohesion? This question is important since the longterm success of such programmes might...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472033
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Shadow prices for a small open economy under uncertainty : which expected values are valid
Bell, Clive - 2017
This paper re-examines the validity of using expected values to evaluate the social profitability of public investments under uncertainty. Departing from the usual assumption of an aggregate good, the setting is a small open economy that faces stochastic world prices for tradable goods and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641320
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Project appraisal : a revival is long overdue
Bell, Clive - 2017
This paper makes the case for the systematic appraisal of public sector projects using shadow prices as the signals of social scarcities. In so doing, it attempts to redress the balance between estimating inputs and outputs, central though that task is, and valuing them correctly. The account of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641337
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The role of the construction sector in influencing natural resource use, structural change, and industrial development in Zambia
Cheelo, Caesar; Liebenthal, Robert - 2018
The construction sector plays a critical role in delivering quality infrastructure, which in turn influences the use of natural resource revenues towards achieving structural change and industrial development. We use industrial organization and political economy lenses to describe and understand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011947093