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Who Uses Bottled Gas? Evidence from Households in Developing Countries
Kojima, Masami - 2017
Household surveys in Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka were analyzed using a two …
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Does Mobile Money Use Increase Firms'Investment? Evidence from Enterprise Surveys in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania
Islam, Asif - 2017
nationally representative of the private sector in three East African countries -- Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda -- a positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967438
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Public Sectors in the Pacific Islands : Are They'Too Big'And Do They'Crowd Out'The Private Sector?
Horscroft, Virginia - 2017
Public sectors in the Pacific Islands are frequently described as being' too big' and as' crowding out' private sector economic activity. Reducing their size, it follows, would provide much-needed space for private sector expansion and result in higher levels of economic growth. This paper...
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The Poverty Impact of Rural Roads : Evidence from Bangladesh
Khandker, Shahidur R. - 2006
The rationale for public investment in rural roads is that households can better exploit agricultural and nonagricultural opportunities to use labor and capital more efficiently. But significant knowledge gaps remain as to how opportunities provided by roads actually filter back into household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779258
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Can Public Works Programs Reduce Youth Crime? Evidence from Papua New Guinea's Urban Youth Employment Project
Ivaschenko, Oleksiy - 2017
Crime rates in Papua New Guinea's capital city of Port Moresby are among the highest in the world. Few youth work, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958393
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Determinants of Tobacco Consumption in Papua New Guinea : Challenges in Changing Behaviors
Xu, Xiaochen - 2017
This paper analyzes smoking prevalence and smoking behaviors in Papua New Guinea. Using the 2009?10 Papua New Guinea … Guinea. The results show that adults (18 years and above) in the poorest quartile are more likely to smoke. Tobacco … New Guinea and considers some practical challenges that the country may face …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971620
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Stagnant Stunting Rate Despite Rapid Economic Growth in Papua New Guinea?Factors Correlated with Malnutrition Among Children Under Five
Hou, Xiaohui - 2017
Maternal and child undernutrition is a pervasive and detrimental condition in Papua New Guinea. Despite rapid economic …, was estimated at 46 percent in Papua New Guinea in 2010, stagnant from 44 percent in 2005. This paper analyzes the … under age 5 years, using the 2009?10 Papua New Guinea Household Income and Expenditure Survey. Stunting and underweight …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971621
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The Economic Consequences Of"Brain Drain"Of the Best and Brightest : Microeconomic Evidence from Five Countries
Gibson, John - 2017
China and India from skilled emigration may not be relevant to much smaller countries. This paper presents the results of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976415
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A Randomized Evaluation of a Low-Cost and Highly Scripted Teaching Method to Improve Basic Early Grade Reading Skills in Papua New Guinea
Macdonald, Kevin - 2018
evaluates the impact of Papua New Guinea's randomized Reading Booster Programme, which was conducted in Madang and Western …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920026
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Water When it Counts : Reducing Scarcity Through Irrigation Monitoring in Central Mozambique
Christian, Paul - 2018
Management of common-pool resources in the absence of individual pricing can lead to suboptimal allocation. In the context of irrigation schemes, this can create water scarcity even when there is sufficient water to meet the total requirements. High-frequency data from three irrigation schemes...
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