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David Malpass, President of the World Bank, remarked that the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and global recession are wiping out more than a decade of poverty alleviation. He focused on crisis response and supporting recovery
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Senegal has experienced a rapid expansion in fixed and mobile broadband internet infrastructure over the past decade. This paper examines the relationship between access to broadband internet and household welfare between 2011 and 2018 by integrating the latest two rounds of household budget...
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largest economy and mobile broadband market in Africa. The analysis exploits a unique dataset that integrates three waves of a …
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This paper develops a theoretical framework that expands the task-based models of technical progress and labor markets to allow for firm heterogeneity and wages that vary across firms. The model is compatible with the empirical observation that more productive firms are larger, are more skill...
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This paper explores the impact of the adoption of information and communications technology on firm performance and … level adoption of information and communications technology leads to increases in firm productivity and wages, and that the … at play. Further findings show that adoption of information and communications technology is associated with employment …
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This paper explores heterogeneity in soil quality, lack of knowledge, and autonomy as explanations for the low adoption … in spending the in-kind grant) had any effect on adoption during the intervention, farmers with autonomy had … substantially higher adoption of improved practices two years after the intervention ended …
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penetration of mobile money, moving beyond simple person-to-person exchanges toward adoption by private firms. This study explores … whether there is a relationship between firm adoption of mobile money and firm investment. Using firm-level data that are …
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skills (polychronicity, work centrality, and optimism) significantly affect simple adoption decisions, returns from adoption …
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Many households in developing countries lack formal financial histories, making it difficult for firms to extend credit, and for potential borrowers to receive it. However, many of these households have mobile phones, which generate rich data about behavior. This article shows that behavioral...
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