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Integrating Border Regions : Connectivity and Competitiveness in South Asia

Calì, Massimiliano - 2017

Deeper regional integration can be beneficial especially for regions along international borders. It can open up new markets on opposite sides of borders and give consumers wider access to cheaper goods. This paper uses data from five contiguous districts of India, Nepal, and Bangladesh in the...

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Optimal Allocation of Natural Resource Surpluses in a Dynamic Macroeconomic Framework : A DSGE Analysis with Evidence from Uganda

Zeufack, Albert - 2017

In low-income, capital-scarce economies that face financial and fiscal constraints, managing revenues from newly found natural resources can be a daunting challenge. The policy debate is how to scale up public investment to meet huge needs in infrastructure without generating a higher public...

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The Misallocation of Land and Other Factors of Production in India

Duranton, Gilles - 2019

This paper quantifies the misallocation of manufacturing output and factors of production between establishments across Indian districts during 1989-2010. It first distills a number of stylized facts about misallocation in India, and demonstrates the validity of misallocation metrics by...

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What is State Capacity?

Khemani, Stuti - 2019

Reform leaders who want to pursue technically sound policies are confronted with the problem of getting myriad government agencies, staffed by thousands of bureaucrats and state personnel, to deliver. This paper provides a framework for thinking about the problem as a series of interdependent...

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Oecs Ports : An Efficiency and Performance Assessment

Cubas, Diana - 2017

Handling charges in Caribbean ports are two to three times higher than in similar ports in other regions of the world. In some cases, it costs significantly less to ship a container to Hong Kong SAR, China, or Europe than it does to ship to a neighboring island no more than 100 miles away. The...

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Spatial Distributions of Job Accessibility, Housing Rents, and Poverty in Nairobi, Kenya

Nakamura, Shohei - 2018

distributions of job accessibility, housing rents, and poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. It finds that workers and jobs are not well …

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Survey of the Kenyan Private Equity and Venture Capital Landscape

Divakaran, Shanthi - 2018

This paper discusses the landscape for private equity and venture capital financing in Kenya. It provides an overview …/regulatory/taxation drivers and impediments that affect Kenya?s private equity and venture capital industry …

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Enhancing Young Children's Language Acquisition Through Parent-Child Book-Sharing : A Randomized Trial in Rural Kenya

Knauer, Heather Ashley - 2019

83- month-old children ages 24 to 83 months (n = 510) in rural Kenya. The first treatment group received storybooks …

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Replication Redux : The Reproducibility Crisis and the Case of Deworming

Ozier, Owen - 2019

In 2004, a landmark study showed that an inexpensive medication to treat parasitic worms could improve health and school attendance for millions of children in many developing countries. Eleven years later, a headline in the Guardian reported that this treatment, deworming, had been "debunked."...

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Learning from Power Sector Reform : The Case of Kenya

Godinho, Catrina - 2019

Two successive waves of reform have fundamentally altered the structure and organization of Kenya's vibrant power … complementary entities. Although the government retains majority ownership of the largest power utilities in the country (Kenya … Power, ~51 percent; KenGen, ~70 percent), Kenya has been able to position itself as one of the foremost destinations in the …

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