A Bigsten, M Söderbom - The World Bank Research Observer, 2006 - academic.oup.com
In the early 1990s the World Bank launched the Regional Program on Enterprise Development (rped) in several African countries, a key component of which was to collect …
P Collier, A Hoeffler - European Economic Review, 2009 - Elsevier
Resource-rich countries have tended to be autocratic and also have tended to use their resource wealth badly. The neoconservative agenda of promoting democratization in …
S Dercon - The World Bank Research Observer, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Poverty is still a predominantly rural phenomenon. However, the context of rural poverty has been changing across the world, with high growth in some economies and stagnation in …
This book provides a likelihood-based introduction to econometrics. In essence, the idea is to carefully investigate the sample variation in the data, then exploit that information to learn …
I Kolstad, A Wiig - Small Business Economics, 2015 - Springer
This paper estimates the effect of education on the success of entrepreneurial activity, using survey data from Malawi. An instrument variable approach is used to address the …
C Colclough, G Kingdon… - Development Policy …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
It is commonly believed that labour‐market returns to education are highest for the primary level of education and lower for subsequent levels. Recent evidence reviewed in this article …
T Sparreboom, A Staneva - Work4Youth Publication Series, 2014 - researchgate.net
Youth is a crucial time of life when young people start realizing their aspirations, assuming their economic independence and finding their place in society. The global jobs crisis has …
K Bjorvatn, AW Cappelen, LH Sekei… - Management …, 2020 - pubsonline.informs.org
Can television be used to teach and foster entrepreneurship among youth in developing countries? We report from a randomized control field experiment of an edutainment show on …
M Aslam - Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2009 - journals.uchicago.edu
Differential labor market returns to male and female education are one potential explanation for large gender gaps in education in Pakistan. We empirically test this explanation by …