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Labor Markets and Income Generation in Rural Argentina

Verner, Dorte - 2016

This paper addresses three areas of the rural labor market-employment, labor wages, and agriculture producer incomes. Findings show that the poor allocate a lower share of their labor to farm sectors than the nonpoor do, but still around 70 percent work in agriculture, and the vast majority of...

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Should African Rural Development Strategies Depend on Smallholder Farms? An Exploration of the Inverse Productivity Hypothesis

Larson, Donald F. - 2020

In Africa, most development strategies include efforts to improve the productivity of staple crops grown on smallholder farms. An underlying premise is that small farms are productive in the African context and that smallholders do not forgo economies of scale -- a premise supported by the often...

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Impact Evaluation of a Large-Scale Rural Sanitation Project in Indonesia

Cameron, Lisa A. - 2017

Lack of sanitation and poor hygiene behavior cause a tremendous disease burden among the poor. This paper evaluates the impact of the Total Sanitation and Sanitation Marketing project in Indonesia, where about 11 percent of children have diarrhea in any two-week period and more than 33,000...

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Community Programs and Women's Participation : The Chinese Experience

Coady, David P. - 2017

Using household data specifically collected for the purpose of evaluation, the authors empirically evaluate the impact on household income of a rural program in China that focuses on increasing women's economic and social participation in the local community. They find that the program...

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A Reappraisal of How Oral Rehydration Therapy Affected Mortality in Egypt

Budina, Nina - 2017

Egypt in 1983. A pilot program was followed by national promotion starting in February 1984. As early as 1985, opinions were … mortality in Egypt appear to have been greatly exaggerated, it does seem likely, in the absence of alternative explanations …

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Assessing the Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture in Egypt : A Ricardian Approach

Eid, Helmy M. - 2016

Egypt. Farm net revenue were regressed against climate, soil, socioeconomic and hydrological variables to determine which … temperatures will constrain agricultural production in Egypt. Irrigation and technology are therefore the recommended adaptation …

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The Welfare Effects of a Large Depreciation : The Case of Egypt, 2000-05

Kraay, Aart - 2016

The Egyptian pound depreciated sharply between 2000 and 2005, declining by 26 percent in nominal trade-weighted terms. The author investigates the effect of the large depreciation on household welfare operating through exchange rate-induced changes in consumer prices. He estimates exchange rate...

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On Financial Development and Economic Growth in the Arab Republic of Egypt

Mohieldin, Mahmoud - 2019

Arab Republic of Egypt. The paper examines empirically the relationship between the development of the financial sector and … economic growth in Egypt between 1980 and 2016. It draws comparisons based on critical financial indicators between Egypt and … financial development, to assess the relationship between financial development and economic growth in Egypt, yields three …

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Internet Job Search, Employment, and Wage Growth : Evidence from the Arab Republic of Egypt

El-Mallakh, Nelly - 2020

This paper assesses the impact of Internet job search on employment in the Arab Republic of Egypt, the most populous … country in the Middle East and North Africa region. Using panel data from the 2012 and 2018 rounds of the Egypt Labor Market …

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Learning from Power Sector Reform : The Case of the Arab Republic of Egypt

Rana, Anshul - 2020

The challenge of power sector reform in the Arab Republic of Egypt has long been dominated by extremely high subsidies …, accumulation of arrears from the sector, poorly-maintained physical capital, and cross-subsidies across customer classes. Egypt …. Egypt has been able to achieve universal access with more or less reliable power over the entire period, except when chronic …

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