Using cross-country data on e-government
systems, this paper analyzes whether e-filing of taxes and
e-procurement implementation improves the capacity of
governments...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 160946Date: February 1, 2020Author:
Kochanova,Anna ;
Hasnain,Zahid ;
Larson,Bradley Robert
This article reports on a randomized
field experiment in which potential work migrants from Nepal
to Malaysia and the Persian Gulf countries are provided with
information...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 160948Date: February 1, 2020Author:
Shrestha,Maheshwor
To what extent do Non-Governmental
Organizations (NGOs) monitor global value chains? While NGOs
regularly denounce the behavior of multinational
corporations throughout...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 160950Date: February 1, 2020Author:
Hatte, Sophie ;
Koenig, Pamina
Export superstars are important for
export growth and diversification and are typically born
large. Firm-level data on manufacturing trade from 32
developing countries...
In the post-collectivization period,
rural Chinese households were required to sell part of their
grain output to the state at a below-market price; however,
increases...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 160961Date: February 1, 2020Author:
Leight,Jessica Ellen
Short-term human mobility has important
health consequences, but measuring short-term movement using
survey data is difficult and costly and use of mobile phone
data...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 160976Date: February 1, 2020Author:
Milusheva,Svetoslava Petkova
This article contributes to improving
our understanding of biases in estimates of demographic
indicators, in the developing world, based on Call Detail
Records (CDRs)....
The creation of national middle classes
and the changes in consumption patterns in many Sub-Saharan
African (SSA) countries suggest reconsidering the way
welfare and...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 145808Date: January 11, 2020Author:
Clementi,Fabio ;
Dabalen,Andrew L. ;
Molini,Vasco ;
Schettino,Francesco
The growth and intensification of many
urban areas has meant city governments increasingly face
pressure to limit development to preserve iconic city views.
This is...
Worldwide, 250 million children under
five (43 percent) are not meeting their developmental
potential because they lack adequate nutrition and cognitive
stimulation...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 145822Date: January 1, 2020Author:
Knauer,Heather Ashley ;
Jakiela,Pamela ;
Ozier,Owen ;
Aboud,Frances E ;
Fernald, Lia C.H.
he methods used to identify the
beneficiaries of programs aiming to address persistent
poverty and shocks are subject to frequent policy debates.
Relying on panel data...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 145819Date: December 6, 2019Author:
Schnitzer,Pascale
Effective social protection is
increasingly as essential to supporting affected populations
in situations of protracted instability and displacement.
Despite the growing...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 145816Date: December 6, 2019Author:
Bruck,Tilman ;
Cuesta Leiva,Jose Antonio ;
De Hoop,Jacobus Joost ;
Gentilini,Ugo ;
Peterman,Amber
Through three decades of conflict, food
rations delivered through the public distribution system
(PDS) have remained the largest safety net among Iraq’s
population....
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 145817Date: December 6, 2019Author:
Krishnan,Nandini ;
Olivieri,Sergio Daniel ;
Ramadan,Racha
Despite the almost universal adoption of
Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) guidelines
for the diagnosis and treatment of sick children under the
age...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 168213Date: December 1, 2019Author:
Clarke-Deelder, Emma ;
Shapira,Gil ;
Samaha,Hadia Nazem ;
Fritsche,Gyorgy Bela ;
Fink,Gunther
Hypertension, a significant risk factor
for ischemic heart disease and other chronic conditions, is
the third-highest cause of death and disability in
Tajikistan. Thus,...
Based on a two-round household panel
survey conducted in Eastern Uganda, this study shows that
the analysis of the inverse scale-productivity relationship
(IR) is highly...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 173981Date: October 31, 2019Author:
Gourlay,Sydney ;
Kilic,Talip ;
David B. Lobell
We use a combination of surveys of
instructors and data from course syllabi to examine how the
subject of development economics is taught at the
undergraduate and Master’s...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 141613Date: August 8, 2019Author:
Mckenzie,David J. ;
Paffhausen,Anna Luisa
The authors develop a framework to
conceptualize the multiple ways forests contribute to
poverty reduction and inform development interventions in
forest landscapes....
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 144308Date: August 7, 2019Author:
Shyamsundar,Priya ;
Ahlroth,Sofia Elisabet ;
Kristjanson,Patricia M. ;
Onder,Stefanie
The authors study attitudes towards
domestic violence in a sample of young women and men exposed
to the edutainment TV series MTV Shuga 3, which features a
sub-plot...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 137010Date: May 1, 2019Author:
Banerjee,Abhijit ;
La Ferrara,Eliana ;
Orozco Olvera,Victor Hugo
Gaps in postnatal care use represent
missed opportunities to prevent maternal and neonatal death
in sub-Saharan Africa. As one in every three non-facility
deliveries...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 161482Date: May 1, 2019Author:
Chukwuma,Adanna Deborah Ugochi ;
Mbachu, Chinyere ;
McConnell, Margaret ;
Bossert,Thomas J. ;
Cohen, Jessica
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