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Do Special Economic Zones (SEZs) increase local economic activities in developing countries? This paper explores this question by examining the aggregate district economic effects of SEZs, a place-based development policy in Ethiopia. The study relies on time and district variation in the...
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, industry and infrastructure policy that should accompany entrepreneurial activity. A new era of export development began in the … paper reviews some trade aspects of economic development with a view to identifying the most promising export developments. …
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This paper estimates the impact of two productive development programs (PDPs) in Costa Rica: PROPYME and CR Provee. The first seeks to increase the capacity of small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) to innovate, and the second aims to increase backward linkages between Costa Rican SMEs and...
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Industrial structures in the 'catching up' type of countries usually are not too competitive in nature, and mainly they differ in the low share of high-technology products in the international trade. The aim of the conducted studies was an attempt to search for directions, as well as the power...
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Little investigation has been made to explain why women are less likely than are men to support democracy in sub-Saharan Africa. This gender difference in politics has been found in numerous studies and may hinder the much needed legitimation of democracy in this region. This paper addresses the...
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export and that export participation is highly persistent. There is also evidence supporting the learning by exporting … hypothesis and the results suggest a significant export premium of between 15 and 24 per cent, controlling for differences in …. We conclude that the Mozambican Export Promotion Institute could play an important role in overcoming this information …
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this change in a case study on Rwanda. In the empirical analysis, we find that highly targeted Aid for Business has a … directed at broad governance areas. In the country case study, we depart from Rwanda's excellent regulatory performance to …
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Ruanda. Für letztere könnte dies eine Strategie sein, um ihre Heiratschancen zu verbessern. …
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The economic literature has given due attention to household coping strategies in peacetime. In contrast, little is known about such strategies in wartime. This paper studies the use of cattle as a buffer stock by Rwandan households during 1991-2001, a period characterized by civil war and...
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This paper investigates the determinants of intra-household time allocation in post-war Rwanda. A decade after the 1994 … genocide, Rwanda still bears the demographic impact of the war, in which at least 800,000 people died and the majority of …
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