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Informality, Harassment, and Corruption : Evidence from Informal Enterprise Data from Harare, Zimbabwe

Francis, David C. - 2019

New representative survey data for Harare, Zimbabwe are used to analyze the conditions under which informal businesses …

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Zimbabwe's Infrastructure : A Continental Perspective

Pushak, Nataliya - 2017

less than half a percentage point to Zimbabwe's improved per capita growth performance in recent years. Raising the country …. Zimbabwe made significant progress in infrastructure in its early period as an independent state, building a national … political turmoil in the late 1990s. Zimbabwe now faces a number of important infrastructure challenges, the most pressing of …

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Income Diversification in Zimbabwe : Welfare Implications from Urban and Rural Areas

Ersado, Lire - 2016

diversification in Zimbabwe following macroeconomic policy changes and droughts of the early 1990s. Data from two comparable national …

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Reforming Village-Level Governance Via Horizontal Pressure : Evidence from an Experiment in Zimbabwe

Baldwin, Kate - 2017

effectively. The study analyzes an experimental intervention in Zimbabwe intended to reduce abuse of power by village heads …

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Trade Integration, Export Patterns, and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Calderón, César - 2020

This paper examines systematically the growth effects of trade integration in Sub-Saharan Africa. It complements and improves upon the empirical literature in two aspects: first, it jointly estimates the impact of different dimensions of trade integration, namely, trade volumes, export/trade...

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Green Sukuk, Energy Poverty, and Climate Change : A Roadmap for Sub-Saharan Africa

AASSOULI, Dalal - 2018

The climate change challenge and the growth of the Islamic finance industry, together with the increase in socially responsible investing, could position green sukuk as a key instrument for financing clean energy and resilient infrastructure projects as well as shorter-term energy efficiency...

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The Cost and Benefits of Tax Treaties with Investment Hubs : Findings from Sub-Saharan Africa

Beer, Sebastian - 2018

This paper investigates the costs and benefits of concluding double tax treaties with investment hubs. Based on a sample of 41 African economies from 1985-2015, the results suggest that signing treaties with investment hubs is not associated with additional investments; yet, these treaties tend...

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Gender Gaps in Property Ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa

Gaddis, Isis - 2018

Women's ownership, use, and control over property matter for their well-being and agency and can influence outcomes for the second generation -- women's daughters and sons. Additionally, gender gaps in property ownership induce allocative inefficiencies and foregone economic output, thus having...

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Willingness to Pay for Electricity Access in Extreme Poverty : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Sievert, Maximiliane - 2019

Improving electricity access in low-income countries is a challenging problem because of the high costs of grid extension and low demand for grid electricity in rural areas. This study elucidates these constraints by analyzing poor households' willingness-to-pay for different types of...

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Roads and Rural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Berg, Claudia N. - 2017

This paper assesses the relation between access to markets and cultivated land in Sub-Saharan Africa. Making use of a geo-referenced panel over three decades (1970-2005) during which the road network was significantly improved, the analysis finds a modest but significant positive association...

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