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Fiscal state capacity
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Can 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. We find that eligibility for the program reduced the proportion of household...
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Macroeconomic Perspectives on Aid
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Aid, Education Policy, and Development
– Economywide Analysis for Ethiopia and Uganda
Rapid urbanization is an important characteristic of African development and yet the structural transformation debate focuses on agriculture’s relative merits without also considering the benefits from urban agglomeration. As a result, African governments are often provided conflicting...
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Urban Governance and Service Delivery in sub-Saharan Africa
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– An Analysis of Agricultureversus Urban-led Development in Uganda
Traditional development models focus on the sector rather than location of growth. Advocates of agriculture-led strategies emphasise agriculture's strong growth linkages and potential to raise rural incomes. The new economic geography literature, however, provides theoretical support for urban...
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African Development in an Urban World
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– Policy Lessons from Recent Experience
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Development Aid
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– Policy Determinants and Measurement
This paper uses data on anthropometric status and reported illness in Uganda to estimate the socio-economic determinants of children's health. After controlling for endogeneity, we find higher household income greatly raises child health. Parental education also improves the health of preschoolers...
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– Looking at Aid Effectiveness from a Different Angle
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Aid to Africa
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Conflict and Peace-building
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– The Case of Uganda in the 1990s
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Spatial Issues in Africa
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– The Impact of Financial Liberalization on Access to Rural Credit in Four African Countries
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Impact of the Liberalization of the Exchange Rate and Financial Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa
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– The Case of Uganda
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Impact of the Liberalization of the Exchange Rate and Financial Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa
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