This paper uses a unique natural experiment in Chinese villages to investigate whether access to telecommunications … migration externality of expanding telecommunications access in rural areas, especially in places where migration potential is …

about 4,000 Indian firms from1993 to 2005. They find that banking, telecommunications, insurance and transport reforms all …

Many developing countries have experienced significant developments in their telecommunications network. Countries in … Africa are no exception to this. The paper examines what factor facilitates most network expansion using micro data from 45 … fixed-line and mobile telephone operators in 18 African countries. In theory the telecommunications sector has two sector …

The authors assess the effects of private capital and independent regulatory agencies on telecommunications performance …

This paper investigates the relationship between mining and spatial inequality in Africa during 2001-12. The … socioeconomic development in Africa …

Data from the Groningen Growth and Development Center's Africa Sector Database and the Demographic and Health Surveys … reveals that much of Africa's recent growth and poverty reduction has been associated with a substantive decline in the share … shifts in employment shares for future growth and development in Africa south of the Sahara …

service delivery in Sub-Saharan Africa. They also provide a lens through which the growing experimental and quasi …

, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, this process is accompanied by a change in land tenure, whereby plots held under traditional …

allocation of present-day World Bank aid at the grid-cell level in Africa. The correlation is robust to an extensive set of …