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Assorting on gender is casually observed in developing countries and is now systematically built into many group-oriented development interventions. In this paper we explore the mechanisms underlying the emergent gender assorting, using an experiment in which African villagers could form groups...
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Previous analyses of the formation and composition of community-based organizations (CBOs) have used cross section data. So, causal inference has been compromised. We obviate this problem by using data from a quasi-experiment in which villages were formed by government officials selecting and...
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by experience, extension, and credit are the major drivers of agricultural efficiency levels in Africa. …
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Recent years have witnessed increased investment in African rural landscapes for agriculture and food security, poverty …
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PPPs in Africa. While finding some positive impacts on investment, it notes that state failures can also undermine PPP …
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-Saharan Africa’s poor farmers, but what makes this technology a successful poverty alleviation tool? In the short run, the technology …
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For economic development to succeed in Africa in the next 50years, African agriculture will have to change beyond … proportion of the population engaged in agriculture and a large move out of rural areas. The paper questions how this can be … squared with a continuing commitment to smallholder agriculture as the main route for growth in African agriculture and for …
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Sub-Saharan Africa and parts of South Asia are likely to hold large numbers of very poor rural people into the …
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cross-sectional regressions on the correlates of subjective well-being in either Tonga or New Zealand. …
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for vulnerable children in eastern Zimbabwe to investigate the effectiveness, coverage, and efficiency of census- and …
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