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Leakage of Public Resources in the Health Sector : An Empirical Investigation of Chad

Wane, Waly - 2016

health sector in Chad, and its effects on the prices of drugs. The analysis uses data collected in Chad as part of a Health …

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Trade Policy to Catalyze Export Diversification : What Should Landlocked Fragile Countries Do? The Cases of Mali, Chad, and Niger

Pitigala, Nihal - 2019

The landlocked and fragile countries Mali, Niger, and Chad have suffered, to varying degrees, from Dutch Disease, with … linked to their connectivity with external markets, in the region and beyond. Thus, Mali, Niger, and Chad are first … their structures, and improving connectivity within and between markets, Mali, Niger, and Chad can better promote the …

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Estimating Poverty Among Refugee Populations : A Cross-Survey Imputation Exercise for Chad

Beltram, Theresa - 2020

. This paper tests the performance of cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad … humanitarian organizations in Chad …

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Toward Successful Development Policies : Insights from Research in Development Economics

Artuc, Erhan - 2020

What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the Development Research Group. This paper assembles a set of 13...

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The Making of Behavioral Development Economics

Demeritt, Allison Davis - 2018

A core insight from early behavioral economics is that much of human judgment and behavior is influenced by "fast thinking" that is intuitive, associative, and automatic; very little human thinking resembles the rational thinking that characterizes homo economicus. What is less well-recognized is...

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Development Economics as Taught in Developing Countries

McKenzie, David J. - 2017

This paper uses a combination of survey questions to instructors and data collected from course syllabi and examinations to examine how the subject of development economics is taught at the undergraduate and masters levels in developing countries, and benchmark this against undergraduate classes...

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Social Norms Theory and Development Economics

Eriksson, Lina Maria Jorun - 2017

Social norms affect almost every aspect of people?s lives, and can be an obstacle to or support economic development. This paper outlines what social norms are and how they work, providing examples from everyday life and from development case studies. Sometimes not much can be done about...

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Which Donors, Which Funds? The Choice of Multilateral Funds by Bilateral Donors at the World Bank

Reinsberg, Bernhard - 2017

The rapid growth of trust funds at multilateral development organizations has been widely neglected in the academic literature so far. Using a simple illustrative model, this paper examines the choice by sovereign donors among various trust fund options. The authors contend that the choice among...

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The Middle-Income Trap Turns Ten

Gill, Indermit S. - 2017

Since we introduced the term ?middle-income trap? in 2006, it has become popular among policy makers and researchers. In May 2015, a search of Google Scholar returned more than 3,000 articles including the term and about 300 articles with the term in the title. This paper provides a...

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Demography, Urbanization and Development : Rural Push, Urban Pull and... Urban Push?

Jedwab, Remi - 2017

Developing countries have urbanized rapidly since 1950. To explain urbanization, standard models emphasize rural-urban migration, focusing on rural push factors (agricultural modernization and rural poverty) and urban pull factors (industrialization and urban-biased policies). Using new...

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