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, protectionist regulatory frameworks, and infrastructure constraints. There is significant room for service export growth, including …
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export and that export participation is highly persistent. There is also evidence supporting the learning by exporting … hypothesis and the results suggest a significant export premium of between 15 and 24 per cent, controlling for differences in …. We conclude that the Mozambican Export Promotion Institute could play an important role in overcoming this information …
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Little investigation has been made to explain why women are less likely than are men to support democracy in sub-Saharan Africa. This gender difference in politics has been found in numerous studies and may hinder the much needed legitimation of democracy in this region. This paper addresses the...
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This paper investigates the causal impact of a randomized video intervention designed to study the determinants of parental time investments in early childhood among low-income parents. We designed and screened a video that provided information and conveyed persuasive messages about the...
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The management of revenues from exhaustible natural resources involves a number of challenges. In this paper, we argue that the standard policy advice to managers of resource revenues has been dominated by short-termism and the lack of a perspective on economic development and structural...
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This study focuses on growth, poverty and inequality in Rwanda. We take a broad perspective, in two respects. First, we …
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This paper analyses the evolution of consumption poverty in Rwanda between 2001/1 and 2010/11, using three comparable … good quality household surveys analysed along with detailed price data. Rwanda achieved impressive growth over this period …. Overall the poverty situation in Rwanda remains sensitive to agricultural conditions when the surveys are conducted. …
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distribution, from which data can be generated for policy action, has been a challenge. Rwanda, however, using the Ubudehe …
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Rwanda is one of the countries with the best strategies for women empowerment and gender equality in Africa and …
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a high-stakes national exam for middle-high school students in Rwanda. To do this, we leverage plausibly exogenous …
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