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Publication - Project Report
As you sow, so you reap! Assessing a mandatory employer-sponsored health insurance scheme
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Publication - Project Report
Income expectations and child health: Evidence from a maternity support programme in India
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Project
Evaluation of the Common External Tariff (CET) of the East African Community (EAC) from Uganda and Rwanda's perspective in 2017
Regional trade integration is a pillar of East African Community partner states’ trade policies, including Uganda and Rwanda. The Customs Union, a first milestone in the regional integration process, was adopted in 2005, committing member states (initially Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania) to the adoption of a Common External Tariff (CET). Uganda has now had twelve years of...
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Publication - Working Paper
Understanding open defecation in rural India: Untouchability, pollution, and latrine pits
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Project
Using a decision support model to identify export opportunities for Rwanda
Expanding exports has become an urgent government priority in Rwanda in order to reduce a growing trade imbalance, ensure non-farm job creation, and improve economic growth. This is also reflected in Rwanda’s strategic plans, with the national export strategy for 2015-18 proposing a 20% annual rate of export growth (MINICOM, 2015). The main objective of this project is to...
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Publication - Policy Brief
Electricity connections of firms in Lusaka
In brief: There is very limited information available on energy access of Zambian firms and this may inhibit design of appropriate policies related to productive uses of energy. A new census of businesses in Lusaka suggests that over 96.6% of businesses surveyed appeared to have electricity access. Comparison with data on existing...
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Publication - Policy Brief
Exports and promoting backward linkages: Ideas and lessons for the Made in Rwanda policy
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Blog post
Credit bureaus in microfinance: a baseline study
Credit bureaus consolidate borrowers’ creditworthiness records and share them with microfinance institutions, thereby addressing adverse selection and moral hazard problems. Such changes give safe borrowers lower interest rates but can lock those with poor or non-existent credit histories out of the market. Ongoing research in Pakistan investigates this trade-off. For at...
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Blog post
Bad practices hold back small firms in developing countries
Survey of more than 20,000 small firms suggests better business practices are correlated with higher productivity, firm profits, and rates of survival. Management practices in large firms around the world have been systematically measured and reported in a series of papers by Bloom and Van Reenen (2007, 2010) and Bloom et al. (2012). These papers show that better...
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Blog post
Five key challenges facing Liberia’s transport industry: Paving the way to market integration
Improving transport connectivity and increasing market integration could improve competition, trade, and potential for growth in small Liberian firms. Transport costs are a key factor in determining market integration. Consequently, keeping transport costs low is critical to economic development, particularly for small firms situated in isolated local economies. In Liberia...