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Disabled by stereotype? Experimental evidence from Uganda
Disabled by stereotype? Experimental evidence from UgandaJournal Article | Jan 2015
More than one billion people in the world have some kind of disability. Apart from the obvious physical challenges facing disabled people, there may also ...
Social identity, Disability, Priming, Confidence, Uganda
Controlling corruption through e-governance: Case evidence from Bangladesh
Controlling corruption through e-governance: Case evidence from BangladeshU4 Brief | May 2015
E-governance is gaining popularity as a tool for improved public service delivery in developing countries. It is often argued e-governance reduces corruption ...
E-governance, Public sector, Sector work, Bangladesh
Mapping evidence gaps in anti-corruption: Assessing the state of the operationally relevant evidence on donors' actions and approaches to reducing corruption
Mapping evidence gaps in anti-corruption: Assessing the state of the operationally relevant evidence on donors' actions and approaches to reducing corruptionU4 Issue | Nov 2012
This paper charts the current evidence on effectiveness of different anti-corruption reforms, and identifies significant evidence gaps. Despite a substantial ...
Anti-corruption, Corruption, Donor, Interventions, Civil society, Public sector reform, Budget support, Review, Evidence, Operational guidance, Assessment, evaluation measurement
Statistical evidence on social and economic exclusion in Nepal
Statistical evidence on social and economic exclusion in NepalCMI Report | Jan 2009
The discourse on social exclusion in Nepal is very ideological, with some authors considering basically all Nepalis as socially excluded except for male ...
Social and economic indicators, Statistical analysis, Caste and ethnic identity, Nepal
Statistical evidence on social and economic exclusion in Nepal
Statistical evidence on social and economic exclusion in NepalBook | Oct 2010
The discourse on social exclusion in Nepal is very ideological, with some authors considering basically all Nepalis as socially excluded except for male ...
Nepal
Will REDD+ safeguards mitigate corruption? Qualitative evidence from Southeast Asia
Will REDD+ safeguards mitigate corruption? Qualitative evidence from Southeast AsiaJournal Article | Jul 2019
High levels of faith and finance have been invested in REDD+ as a promising global climate change mitigation policy. Since its inception in 2007, corruption ...
REDD+, , Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam
REDD Integrity: An evidence based approach to anti-corruption in REDD+
REDD Integrity: An evidence based approach to anti-corruption in REDD+U4 Issue | Mar 2015
Schemes for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) have emerged as a means to address deforestation trends in developing ...
REDD+, corruption, anti-corruption, forest governance
Does an economics education produce technocratic paternalists? Experimental evidence from Tanzania
Journal Article | Oct 2020
When confronted with information that ordinary citizens do not care that strongly about efficiency, do economists change their views of optimal public ...
Field experiment, economics, paternalism, efficiency, taxation, Tanzania
Increasing trust in the bank to enhance savings: Experimental evidence from India
Increasing trust in the bank to enhance savings: Experimental evidence from IndiaCMI Working Paper | Jan 2016
Recent evidence highlights the importance of trust in explaining bank account savings. According to economic theory, repeated interactions can play a ...
India, finance, trust, savings, banking, experiment, rct
Why do farmers expand their land into forests? Theories and evidence from Tanzania
Journal Article | Jan 1999
Why do farmers expand their land into forests? Theories and evidence from Tanzania Arild Angelsen e
Tanzania
Local government finances and financial management in Tanzania. Empirical evidence of trends 2000-2007
Local government finances and financial management in Tanzania. Empirical evidence of trends 2000-2007Report in External Series | Nov 2010
The paper examines local government capacity with respect to financial management and revenue enhancement, and analyses trends in financial accountability ...
Local government, Financial management, Taxation, Fiscal autonomy, Tanzania
How does information about elite tax evasion affect political participation: Experimental evidence from Tanzania
Journal Article | Jan 2019
We present results of a randomized field experiment where voters in Tanzania were given information about elite use of tax havens. Information provided ...
Elites, citizens, voter turnout, political participation, tax havens, political economy, Tanzania
Pro-social preferences and self-selection into the public health sector: evidence from an economic experiment
Pro-social preferences and self-selection into the public health sector: evidence from an economic experimentJournal Article | Jul 2012
Motivational crowding-out theory establishes that the effectiveness of financial incentive schemes, like pay-for-performance, crucially depends on the ...
Pro-social preferences, career choice, economic experiments, health workers, Tanzania
Clustering as an organizational response to capital market inefficiency: evidence from microenterprises in Ethiopia
Clustering as an organizational response to capital market inefficiency: evidence from microenterprises in EthiopiaJournal Article | Mar 2014
Absence of a well-developed capital market has been listed as a key obstacle to industrialization in developing countries in the development literature. ...
Microenterprises, Finance, Entry barrier, Clustering, Africa, Ethiopia
Does changing the narrative improve host community attitudes to climate migrants? Experimental evidence from Bangladesh
Does changing the narrative improve host community attitudes to climate migrants? Experimental evidence from BangladeshCMI Working Paper | Jan 2019
A number of studies suggest that our narratives about the situation of the poor and vulnerable affect how we view them and treat them. Theoretically, ...
Bangladeh