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What determines administrative capacity in developing countries?This article is currently available for early online view. While it is recognised that effective state institutions are pivotal for economic development, their origins and what explains their cross-country differences are not well understood...
state capacity Administrative capacity Public finance managementJournal Article
Agricultural extension, intra-household allocation and malariaCan agricultural development programs improve health-related outcomes? We exploit a spatial discontinuity in the coverage of a large-scale agricultural extensionprogram in Uganda to causally identify its effects on malaria...
Administrative law Agriculture Economic developmentJournal Article
The Effects of the Value-Added Tax on Revenue and InequalityThis paper examines the impact of the introduction of the value-added tax on inequality and government revenues using newly released macro data...
Economic development Equality and inequality TaxationWorking Paper
Empirical challenges comparing inequality across countries: The case of middle-income countries from the LIS databaseThis study presents new empirical results, using microdata from the LIS database, on development patterns in economic inequality for a set of countries that are less covered in the empirical literature, mostly due to the lack of appropriate data...
Economic development Equality Middle-income countriesBook Chapter
Understanding and characterizing the services sector in South Africa: an overviewFrom the book: Industries without Smokestacks
Services Economic development South AfricaBook Chapter
Career dynamics and gender gaps among employees in the microfinance sectorFrom the book: Towards Gender Equity in Development
gender gaps Job mobility PromotionJournal Article
How does petty corruption affect tax morale in Sub-Saharan Africa?This article is currently available for early online view. Revenues from taxation gain in importance to finance economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa...
Corruption Tax Economic developmentJournal Article
Exploring regional and gender disparities in Beninese primary school attendance: A multilevel approachDHS data is combined with school supply statistics to study primary school attendance in the 2005–06 school year in Benin, a country that has seen almost unparalleled increases in attendance since the 1990s...
Economic development Demand for schooling AfricaJournal Article
Introduction: Fiscal Policy, State Building and Economic DevelopmentPart of Journal Special Issue Fiscal Policy, State Building and Economic Development
tax policy Economic development Developing countriesJournal Special Issue
Fiscal Policy, State Building and Economic DevelopmentThis journal presents a synopsis of the contextual conditions, factors and challenges under which the recent evolution of tax systems has taken place, as an introduction to this United Nations University-World Institute for Development Economics Rese...
Fiscal policy Economic development TaxationWorking Paper
What determines administrative capacity in developing countries?While it is recognized that effective state institutions are pivotal for economic development, it is not well understood what their origins are and what explains their cross-country differences...
state capacity Administrative capacity Public finance managementWorking Paper
Fiscal policy, state building and economic developmentThis paper presents a synopsis of the contextual conditions, factors and challenges under which the recent evolution of tax systems has taken place over the past three decades...
tax policy Economic development Developing countriesBlog
Income generation and malaria in UgandaSeveral large-scale efforts have been made to combat malaria in the last decade under the Millennium Development Goals, and while these have led to a rapid decline in cases, malaria continues to exact a heavy toll on sub-Saharan Africa, both in terms...
Administrative law Agriculture Economic developmentWorking Paper
Educational inequality in MozambiqueIn very poor countries, inequality often means that a small part of the population maintains living standards far above the rest...
Education Economic development InequalityWorking Paper
Development and poverty in sub-Saharan AfricaThis paper puts sub-Saharan Africa’s economic development into perspective...
Sub-Saharan Africa Economic development TransformationBook Chapter
BrazilFrom the book: Growth, Employment, and Poverty in Latin America
Economic development Income distribution Labor market