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Information, coordination, and the industrialization of countries

Englmaier, Florian; Reisinger, Markus - 2006

possible problems with overreaction to public information. Furthermore, we suggest a new focus for development policy. …

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Transaction costs, Information technology and development

Singh, Nirvikar - 2004 - Revised October 2004

This paper explores potential channels through which information technology (IT) affects economic development. The … produced, and in turn how that number may affect the development path of the economy. We then draw on our fieldwork in rural …

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Myopic misery : maternal depression, child investments, and the neurobiological poverty trap

Strulik, Holger - 2016 - Revised Version: October 2016

In this paper, I explore in an overlapping generations framework, a mechanism motivating a neurobiological poverty trap. Poverty causes stress and depression in individuals susceptible to depression. Poor and depressed individuals discount the future at a higher rate and invest less in the human...

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What methods may be used in impact evaluations of humanitarian assistance?

Puri, Jyotsna; Aladysheva, Anastasia; Iversen, Vegard; … - 2015

Despite the widespread occurrence of humanitarian emergencies such as epidemics, earthquakes, droughts, floods and violent conflict and despite the significant financial resources devoted to humanitarian assistance, systematic learning from such interventions using rigorous theory-based impact...

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Multidimensional poverty in Nigeria : first order dominance approach

Ajakaiye, Olu; Jerome, Afeikhena T.; Olaniyan, Olanrewaju; … - 2014

This study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach developed by Arndt et al. (2012). It examines five dimensions of deprivation: education, water, sanitation, shelter, and energy-using comparable datasets, the Nigeria Demographic...

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Measuring risk preferences in rural Ethiopia : risk tolerance and exogenous income proxies

Vieider, Ferdinand M.; Beyene, Abebe; Bluffstone, … - 2014

extensive methodological discussions on measuring and estimating risk preferences in development settings. …

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Innovation, competition and productivity : firm level evidence for Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Friesenbichler, Klaus S.; Peneder, Michael - 2016

We investigate the drivers of firm level productivity in catching-up economies by jointly estimating its relationship to innovation and competition using data from the EBRD-WB Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The findings confirm...

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Behavioral design : a new approach to development policy

Datta, Saugato; Mullainathan, Sendhil - 2014

Successful development programs rely on people to behave and choose in certain ways, and behavioral economics helps us … understand why people behave and choose as they do. Approaching problems in development using behavioral economics thus leads to … better diagnosis and to better-designed solutions. This paper sketches how to use behavioral insights to design development …

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Scaling up sanitation : evidence from an RCT in Indonesia

Cameron, Lisa Ann; Shah, Manisha - 2017

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of a widely used sanitation intervention, Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), using a randomized controlled trial. The intervention was implemented at scale across rural East Java in Indonesia. CLTS increases toilet construction, reduces roundworm...

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Large scale land investments : impact on child health

Brandt, Jana - 2017

Gaussian kernel propensity score matching shows a benefit in the development status of children that are exposed to large scale … matching shows a benefit in the development status of children that are exposed to large scale land investments. …

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