a new technology. All villages have CFs and access the same extension network. In treatment villages, CFs additionally … extension network: from extension agents to CFs, and from CFs to other farmers. Directly training CFs leads to a large …

China's World Trade Organization accession): it is not enough to assume, given Africa's high spatial inequality, that local …

than 20 countries accounting for two-thirds of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this process, the analysis employs …

This paper studies the impact of the rapid expansion of the Brazilian road network, which occurred from the 1960s to …

. Theoreticians note that banking increasingly displays network characteristics that may call for corrective action but make policy … justified, but the complexity of the network makes successful interventions hard to design. Supervision has a role, and the … financial network has placed an upper bound on the effectiveness of supervision. The authors conclude that although bank …

largest economy and mobile broadband market in Africa. The analysis exploits a unique dataset that integrates three waves of a …