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Event
Call for papers: Conference of the Private Sector Development Research Network
This annual conference on 12-13 December 2019 in Geneva offers an opportunity to bring together staff of Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) and donor agencies involved in private sector development, with academics who study private firms and markets from the fields of economics (such as industrial organisation, international trade and investment), finance, business,...
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Project
Trade facilitation and informal cross border trade
Informal cross border trade (ICBT) – trade activities which are unrecorded in official trade statistics – is pervasive in Africa. Economic theory suggests that the presence of informal trade depends on the relative costs of trading informally and formally (Golub, 2015; Eberhard-Ruiz & Moradi, 2018). Some of the factors spurring informal trade are expensive document...
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Publication - Working Paper
Trade costs, trade facilitation, and formalisation of trade: Evidence from one-stop-border-posts in Uganda
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Publication - Working Paper
Production and evasion responses with limited state capacity: Evidence from major tax reforms in India
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Publication - Policy Brief
Housing need in Kigali: Findings and policy reflections
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Publication - Project Report
Housing need in Kigali
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Person
Mar Reguant
Mar Reguant is Energy Research Programme Director. Mar Reguant is Associate Professor at Northwestern University. Her research deals with the economics of energy, with an emphasis on electricity and the pollution associated with electricity generation.
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Person
Sudhanshu Sharma
Sudhanshu Sharma is a Country Economist for IGC Myanmar. Previously, he worked with Professors Erica Field and Rohini Pande on a large-scale Randomised Control Trial in rural Tamil Nadu, India. He holds an MPA in Public and Economic Policy from the London School of Economics (LSE). Prior to LSE, he was a Financial Analyst at Ernst & Young LLP. His research interests include...
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Publication - Policy Brief
Discretion in a bureaucracy: Evidence from Pakistan