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Social and Economic Impacts of Rural Road Improvements in the State of Tocantins, Brazil

Iimi, Atsushi - 2017

The aim of this paper is to provide feedback on the question of socioeconomic benefits from rural road development and the impact of transport infrastructure on the poor, particularly the poorest and the bottom 20 percent of the population. This paper relies on impact evaluation methodologies,...

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Prevalence, Economic Contribution, and Determinants of Trees on Farms Across Sub-Saharan Africa

Miller, Daniel - 2020

Trees on farms are often overlooked in agricultural and natural resource research and policy in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper addresses this gap using data from the Living Standards Measurement Study?Integrated Surveys on Agriculture in five countries: Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and...

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Formalizing Rural Land Rights in West Africa : Early Evidence from a Randomized Impact Evaluation in Benin

Goldstein, Markus - 2017

This paper presents early evidence from the first large-scale randomized-controlled trial of a land formalization program. The study examines the links between land demarcation and investment in rural Benin in light of a model of agricultural production under insecure tenure. The demarcation...

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Unconditional Cash Transfers in China : an Analysis of the Rural Minimum Living Standard Guarantee Program

Golan, Jennifer - 2017

This paper examines China?s rural minimum living standard guarantee (dibao) program, one of the largest minimum income cash transfer schemes in the world. Using household survey data matched with published administrative data, the paper describes the dibao program, estimates the program?s impact...

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Welfare and Poverty Impacts of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme : Evidence from Andhra Pradesh

Deininger, Klaus - 2017

This paper uses a three-round 4,000-household panel from Andhra Pradesh together with administrative data to explore short and medium-term poverty and welfare effects of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Triple difference estimates suggest that participants significantly increase...

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Evaluating Workfare When the Work is Unpleasant : Evidence for India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

Alik-Lagrange, Arthur - 2017

Prevailing practices in evaluating workfare programs have ignored the disutility of the type of work done, with theoretically ambiguous implications for the impacts on poverty. In the case of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, past assessments have relied solely on household...

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Relief from Usury : Impact of a Community-Based Microcredit Program in Rural India

Hoffmann, Vivian - 2017

The impact of micro-credit interventions on existing credit markets is theoretically ambiguous. Previous empirical work suggests the entry of a joint-liability lender may lead to a positive impact on the informal lending rate. This paper presents the first randomized controlled trial-based...

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Shoeing the Children : The Impact of the Toms Shoe Donation Program in Rural El Salvador

Wydick, Bruce - 2017

The study uses a cluster-randomized trial among 1,578 children from 979 households in rural El Salvador to test the impacts of TOMS shoe donations on children's time allocation, school attendance, health, self-esteem, and aid dependency. Results indicate high levels of usage and approval of the...

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The Quality of Fiscal Adjustment and the Long-Run Growth Impact of Fiscal Policy in Brazil

Blanco, Fernando - 2016

The authors describe the main trends of Brazil's fiscal policy during the past decade and analyze (1) the ability to … Brazil. But the relationship is nonlinear: the impact of the primary balance on spreads is amplified as the debt ratio … disappointing growth performance in Brazil during the past decade …

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Do Export Promotion Agencies Promote New Exporters?

Cruz, Marcio - 2017

-level dataset that covers the full manufacturing sector in Brazil. To identify the impact of Apex's assistance on firms' export …

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