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

Working paper 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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Mira Korb

PhD Candidate, University of California - Davis
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