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Talk is cheap, but useful: Strategic signalling in NGO-led interventions

Working paper 15 Apr 2025 Sustainable Growth

This paper examines whether individuals in Ghanaian villages respond differently to identical water quality information depending on which organisation is presented as having implemented the water sampling and testing process - either a government agency or a local NGO.

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  • Responsiveness to environmental risk in developing countries

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Mira Korb

PhD Candidate, University of California - Davis
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