Heterogeneity in time discounting may reinforce the existing barriers to save and invest faced by rural populations in developing countries. We elicit a subjective discount rate for a varied sample of Ugandan villagers. In accordance with other studies, we have found the discount rate to...

This paper assesses the prevalence of stunting and its potential determinants using data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) conducted in Rwanda and Burundi in 2010. Selected child, mother, and household characteristics are described for rural and urban areas in each country and the...

Political, economic, social changes that take place nowarday and refflected in the dinamiks of territirial organization of the sociaty. The Republic of Karelia has a profitable economic and geographical position in one of the federal regions, Northwest federal region of Russia . The big amount...