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Measuring the Technical Efficiency of Airports in Latin America

Perelman, Sergio - 2017

through questionnaires distributed to airport operators, the authors use Data Envelopment Analysis methods to compute an … world. In a second stage, they estimate a truncated regression to study the drivers of observed differences in airport … gross domestic product), and airport characteristics (hub airport, share of commercial revenues) matter in explaining …

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Locking Crops to Unlock Investment : Experimental Evidence on Warrantage in Burkina Faso

Delavallade, Clara Anne - 2020

Financial market imperfections remain pervasive in developing countries, constraining potentially profitable investment decisions, especially for rural smallholder farmers. Warrantage is an innovative model of rural finance with the potential to overcome credit, storage, and commitment...

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Elections and Embezzlement : Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso

Lierl, Malte M. - 2017

Can democratic elections reduce rent extraction by public decision makers? Existing research suggests that reelection incentives can reduce the embezzlement of public funds. This paper examines three additional mechanisms through which democratic elections could have an impact on embezzlement,...

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Reducing Hunger with Payments for Ecosystem Services (Pes) : Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso

Adjognon, Guigonan Serge - 2019

Does financial compensation for providing environmental conservation, improve the food security of the rural poor in the drylands of Sub-Saharan Africa? This paper explores this question using data from a randomized controlled trial of a large scale reforestation implemented by the Government of...

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Gender Inequality in Multidimensional Welfare Deprivation in West Africa : The Case of Burkina Faso and Togo

Agbodji, Akoete Ega - 2017

The importance of gender equality is reflected not only in the Millennium Development Goals, but also in the World Bank's Gender Action Plan launched in 2007 as well as in other treaties and actions undertaken at regional and international levels. Unlike other work on gender and poverty, which...

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Alternative Cash Transfer Delivery Mechanisms : Impacts on Routine Preventative Health Clinic Visits in Burkina Faso

Akresh, Richard - 2017

The authors conducted a unique randomized experiment to estimate the impact of two alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms on household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that were either...

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Burkina Faso's Infrastructure : A Continental Perspective

Briceno-Garmendia, Cecilia - 2017

Infrastructure contributed 1.3 percentage points to Burkina Faso's annual per capita gross domestic product (GDP) growth over the past decade, much of it due to improvements in information and communication technology (ICT). Raising the country's infrastructure endowment to that of the region's...

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Child Ability and Household Human Capital Investment Decisions in Burkina Faso

Akresh, Richard - 2017

Using data they collected in rural Burkina Faso, the authors examine how children's cognitive abilities influence resource constrained households' decisions to invest in their education. This paper uses a direct measure of child ability for all primary school-aged children, regardless of current...

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Educational and Health Impacts of Two School Feeding Schemes : Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Rural Burkina Faso

Kazianga, Harounan - 2017

This paper uses a prospective randomized trial to assess the impact of two school feeding schemes on health and education outcomes for children from low-income households in northern rural Burkina Faso. The two school feeding programs under consideration are, on the one hand, school meals where...

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Remittances and Natural Disasters : Ex-Post Response and Contribution to Ex-Ante Preparedness

Mohapatra, Sanket - 2017

Macro- and micro-economic evidence suggests a positive role of remittances in preparing households against natural disasters and in coping with the loss afterwards. Analysis of cross-country macroeconomic data shows that remittances increase in the aftermath of natural disasters in countries...

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