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Out of the Poverty Trap Through Higher Aspirations?
Why does a mother from a poor African village not send her daughter to school, but instead marries her off to an old man as a second or third wife? This way poverty is inherited from parent to child...
Agricultural labourers Children Field experimentsBlog
Lessons from Behavioural Economics for Development Policy 23 April 2014 Jukka Pirttilä In conventional economic theory, agents are assumed to be able to make rational choices, unaffected by emotions and not constrained by decision-making errors...
Decision making Economic development Psychological aspects (Economics)Working Paper
Savings By and For the Poor: A Research Review and AgendaThe poor can and do save, but often use formal or informal instruments that have high risk, high cost, and limited functionality. This could lead to undersaving compared to a world without market or behavioural frictions...
Banking Choice ConsumptionJournal Article
Social Capital, Network Effects, and Savings in Rural VietnamPart of Journal Special Issue Poverty, Development, and Behavioral Economics
Business networks Financial institutions HouseholdsJournal Article
Savings by and for the Poor: A Research Review and AgendaPart of Journal Special Issue Poverty, Development, and Behavioral Economics
Banking Choice ConsumptionBlog
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21 February 2014 Tony Addison Development researchers live in a world where research on development, not just in economics but also political science, environmental science, anthropology (to name just a few areas of inquiry) is abundant...
Economic development Government policy (Poor) Poverty measurementWorking Paper
Social Capital, Network Effects and Savings in Rural VietnamInformation failures are a major barrier to formal financial saving in low income countries...
Business networks Financial institutions HouseholdsJournal Article
Is Economic Volatility Detrimental to Global Sustainability?In a dynamic panel data model allowing for error cross-section dependence, output volatility is found to impede sustainable development...
Business cycles Capital investments Economic developmentBlog
Domestic Resource Mobilization and Financial Development: Looking at the MDGs from a Different Angle?
George Mavrotas While recent years have witnessed new interest in the finance–growth nexus, the relationship between domestic resource mobilization and financial development remains relatively unexplored...
Banking Capital market Financial institutionsPolicy Brief
Vulnerability in Developing CountriesThe first Millennium Development Goal aims to halve the number of people in the world living in extreme poverty...
Environmental economics Households PovertyBook
Domestic Resource Mobilization and Financial DevelopmentThis significant and timely volume offers crucial insights into the constantly evolving debate within the international development community regarding the mobilization of domestic resources and the crucial role that financial development can and sho...
Banking Capital market Financial institutionsBook Chapter
Financial Sector Development in Zambia: Implications for Domestic Resource MobilizationFrom the book: Domestic Resource Mobilization and Financial Development
Economic policy Financial institutions MicrofinanceBook Chapter
Financial Reform and the Mobilization of Domestic Savings: The Experience of MoroccoFrom the book: Domestic Resource Mobilization and Financial Development
Capital market Financial institutions Saving and investmentBook Chapter
Asset Portfolios in Africa: Evidence from Rural EthiopiaFrom the book: Personal Wealth from a Global Perspective
Equality and inequality Households Poverty