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Institution Building with Limited Resources: Establishing a Supreme Audit Institution in Rwanda

Isaksson, Ann-Sofie; Bigsten, Arne - In: World Development 40 (2012) 9, pp. 1870-1881

This study examines the tensions between best-practice institutional benchmarks and local operational constraints in a developing country institution-building process. Drawing on data from document studies and key informant interviews, we investigate if and how staff capacity constraints affect...

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Evidence on the impact of minimum wage laws in an informal sector: Domestic workers in South Africa

Dinkelman, Taryn; Ranchhod, Vimal - In: Journal of Development Economics 99 (2012) 1, pp. 27-45

South Africa and variation in the intensity of this law to identify increases in wages for domestic workers and no …

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Consumption versus asset smoothing: testing the implications of poverty trap theory in Burkina Faso

Carter, Michael R.; Lybbert, Travis J. - In: Journal of Development Economics 99 (2012) 2, pp. 255-264

asset smoothing regimes using a household panel data set from West Africa. Households above the estimated threshold almost …

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HIV testing, subjective beliefs and economic behavior

Thornton, Rebecca L. - In: Journal of Development Economics 99 (2012) 2, pp. 300-313

This paper examines the effects of learning HIV status on economic behavior among rural Malawians. According to economic life-cycle models, if learning HIV results is informative about additional years of life, being diagnosed HIV-positive or negative should predict changes in consumption,...

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Wars and child health: Evidence from the Eritrean–Ethiopian conflict

Akresh, Richard; Lucchetti, Leonardo; Thirumurthy, Harsha - In: Journal of Development Economics 99 (2012) 2, pp. 330-340

Conflict between and within countries can have lasting health and economic consequences, but identifying such effects can be empirically challenging. This paper uses household survey data from Eritrea to estimate the effect of exposure to the 1998–2000 Eritrea–Ethiopia war on children's...

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Unbundling Institutions at the Local Level: Conflict, Institutions and Income in Burundi

Voors, Maarten J.; Bulte, Erwin H. - Households in Conflict Network - 2008

We use a new dataset from Burundi to analyze the role of local institutions as determinants of income, distinguishing between three distinct dimensions of the institutional framework: (i) property rights security, (ii) local political leadership and (iii) social capital. Using measures of...

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Assessing the probability of land submergence for lowland rice cultivation in Africa using satellite imagery and geospatial data

Yamamoto, Yukiyo; Tsujimoto, Yasuhiro; Fujihara, Yoichi; … - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 14 (2012) 6, pp. 955-971

and importation rates have been rapidly increasing in recent years. Areas planted to rice in Africa are classified agro …

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Local government revenue mobilisation in Anglophone Africa

Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge; Heggstad, Kari - Chr. Michelsen Institute - 2012

This paper examines opportunities and constraints facing local revenue mobilization in Anglophone Africa with an … affecting citizens’ compliance behaviour are addressed. The analysis is exemplified by cases from across Anglophone Africa. A … general conclusion emerging from the study is that local revenues mobilised in most local government authorities in Africa are …

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The Challenge of Sustaining App Entrepreneurs

Locke, Chris - In: Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization 7 (2012) 4, pp. 21-26

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Mobilizing Tech Entrepreneurs in Africa (Innovations Case Narrative: iHub)

Hersman, Erik - In: Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization 7 (2012) 4, pp. 59-67

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