Digital technologies can expand access to health services to underserved populations. This paper leverages mobile network expansion and survey data spanning two decades to study the impact of access to mobile phones on infant mortality in Africa.
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This paper assesses the impact of Ethiopia's flagship social protection program, the Productive Safety Net Program on the adverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the food and nutrition security of households, mothers, and children.
This paper discusses the potential role of low-cost private secondary schools in Tanzania. The share of private enrollment has been negatively correlated with the availability of public schools.
As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc across the world, researchers are attempting to quantify the economic fallout from the pandemic as it continues to unfold.
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Beneficiary views on cash and in-kind payments: Evidence from Ethiopia’s productive safety net programme
Economists often default to the assumption that cash is always preferable to an in-kind transfer. Do beneficiaries feel the same way?
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Measuring agricultural knowledge and adoption
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Budget rules and resource booms
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Co-movement of major commodity price returns
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How can safety nets contribute to economic growth?
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Tourism sector in Panama
Quisumbing and Yohannes use the Ethiopian Rural Household Survey to examine the gender dimensions of public works.