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This paper reviews the growth, employment, and poverty record of The Gambia focusing on the macroeconomic environment … The Gambia does not appear to be pro-poor, as improvements in the rate of growth appear to have at best halted the spread … policy package, The Gambia could reformulate macroeconomic policies to target growth instead of inflation, select a more …
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We assess the impact of large-scale fee elimination for secondary school girls in The Gambia on the quantity … need not come at the expense of learning in low-income countries like The Gambia. …
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Informal school fees – for uniforms, books, and other supplies – are substantial in developing countries, often several times formal tuition. We evaluate a scholarship program that alleviated informal fees for girls in a subset of Gambian secondary schools. The program is unique because it...
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We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school teachers in remote locations, on the distribution and characteristics of teachers across schools. A geographic discontinuity in the policy's implementation and the presence of...
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The unplanned settlement Ebo Town is flooded almost every year with polluted water from uphill Kanifing Municipality because of a lack of infrastructure for sanitation and drainage. When droughts occurred in the 1970s, destitute people started to move to the peripheral swamp of Tambi Wetland...
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We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school teachers in remote locations, on student performance. A geographic discontinuity in the policy's implementation provides identifying variation. We find no effects of the hardship...
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