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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975735
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012748016
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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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Making Up People -- the Effect of Identity on Preferences and Performance in a Modernizing Society
Hoff, Karla - 2017
It is typically assumed that being hard-working or clever is a trait of the person, in the sense that it is always there, in a fixed manner. However, in an experiment with almost 600 boys in India, cues to one's place in the traditional caste order turn out to influence the expression of these...
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Caste System
Hoff, Karla - 2017
In standard economics, individuals are rational actors and economic forces undermine institutions that impose large inefficiencies. The persistence of the caste system is evidence of the need for psychologically more realistic models of decision-making in economics. The caste system divides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966768
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Good, Bad, and Ugly Colonial Activities : Studying Development Across the Americas
Gallego, Francisco A. - 2010
Levels of economic development vary widely within countries in the Americas. This paper argues that part of this variation has its roots in the colonial era. Colonizers engaged in different economic activities in different regions of a country, depending on local conditions. Some activities were...
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The Impact of Mining on Spatial Inequality Recent Evidence from Africa
Addison, Tony - 2017
This paper investigates the relationship between mining and spatial inequality in Africa during 2001-12. The identification strategy is based on a unilateral causation between mining and district inequality. The findings show that when minerals are aggregated, mining increases district...
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Policy Challenges for Emerging and Developing Economies : Lessons from the Past Decade
Ruch, Franz Ulrich - 2020
The 2009 global recession demonstrated, once again, the importance of crisis prevention as well as the critical need for preserving policy room so that emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) can act when their economies are hit by shocks. And now, with the global growth outlook still...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839626
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Reverse Mortgages, Financial Inclusion, and Economic Development : Potential Benefit and Risks
Knaack, Peter - 2020
This paper examines the state of reverse mortgage markets in selected countries around the world and considers the potential benefits and risks of these products from a financial inclusion and economic benefit standpoint. Despite potentially increasing demand from aging societies -- combined...
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