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  • Keep It Simple : A Field Experiment on Information Sharing among Strangers (anglais)

    SMS information campaigns are increasingly used for policy. A field experiment is conducted to study information sharing through mobile phone messages. Subjects are rural households in Mozambique who have...

    Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 186361 Date du document: 22 septembre 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cátia Batista,Fafchamps,Marcel,Pedro C. Vicente

  • The Evolution of Built-up Areas in Ghana since 1975 (anglais)

    This paper uses high-resolution satellite data on the proportion of buildings in a 250x250 meter cell to study the evolution of human settlement in Ghana over a 40-year period. The analysis finds a strong...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9314 Date du document: 1 juillet 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fafchamps,Marcel,Shilpi,Forhad J.

  • The role of social ties in factor allocation (anglais)

    This paper investigates whether social structure helps or hinders factor allocation using unusually rich data from The Gambia. Evidence indicates that land available for cultivation is allocated unequally...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8343 Date du document: 20 février 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Beck,Ulrik,Bjerge,Benedikte Alkjaersig,Fafchamps,Marcel

  • Redistribution and group participation : experimental evidence from Africa and the UK (anglais)

    This paper investigates whether the prospect of redistribution hinders the formation of efficiency-enhancing groups. An experiment is conducted in a Kenyan slum, Ugandan villages, and a UK university town...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8330 Date du document: 5 février 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fafchamps,Marcel,Hill,Ruth

  • Job fairs : matching firms and workers in a field experiment in Ethiopia (anglais)

    Do matching frictions affect youth employment in developing countries? This paper studies a randomized controlled trial of job fairs in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The job fairs match firms with a representative...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8092 Date du document: 7 juin 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Abebe,Girum,Caria,Stefano,Fafchamps,Marcel,Falco,Paolo,Franklin,Simon David,Quinn,Simon Redmond,Shilpi,Forhad J.

  • The World Bank Economic Review 31 (3) (anglais)

    The World Bank Economic Review is a professional journal used for the dissemination of research in development economics broadly relevant to the development profession and to the World Bank in pursuing...

    Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 140524 Date du document: 1 janvier 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mckenzie,David J.,Paffhausen,Anna Luisa,Kaiser,Tim,Menkhoff,Lukas,Grimm,Michael John,Munyehirwe,Anicet,Peters,Jörg,Sievert,Maximiliane,Rockmore,Marc,Fafchamps,Marcel,Woodruff,Christopher Marshall,Eble,Alex,Boone,Peter,Elbourne,Diana,Annen,Kurt,Moers,Luc,Villoria,Nelson Benjamin,Mghenyi,Elliot Wamboka,Contreras,Dante,Sepúlveda,Paulina,Larsen, Anna Folke,Lilleør,Helene Bie,Buser,Thomas,Oosterbeek,Hessel,Plug,Erik,Ponce,Juan,Rosero,José,Gutierrez,Emilio,Juarez,Laura,Rubli,Adrian

  • Gold mining and proto-urbanization : recent evidence from Ghana (anglais)

    Central place theory predicts that agglomeration can arise from external shocks. This paper investigates whether gold mining is a catalyst for proto-urbanization in rural Ghana. Using cross-sectional data...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7347 Date du document: 30 juin 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fafchamps,Marcel,Koelle,Michael Rene,Shilpi,Forhad J.

  • Mobile phone coverage and producer markets : evidence from West Africa (anglais)

    Mobile phone coverage has expanded considerably throughout the developing world, particularly within sub-Saharan Africa. Existing evidence suggests that increased access to information technology has improved...

    Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 112426 Date du document: 14 octobre 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Aker,Jenny C.,Fafchamps,Marcel

  • Mobile phone coverage and producer markets : evidence from West Africa (anglais)

    Mobile phone coverage has expanded considerably throughout the developing world, particularly within sub-Saharan Africa. Existing evidence suggests that increased access to information technology has improved...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6986 Date du document: 1 juillet 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Aker, Jenny C.,Fafchamps,Marcel

  • The World Bank economic review 28 (1) (anglais)

    This paper is organized in following headings: how can safety nets contribute to economic growth?; political reforms and public policy: evidence from agricultural and food policies; food security and storage...

    Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 113048 Date du document: 1 janvier 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Alderman,Harold H.,Yemtsov,Ruslan G.,Olper,Alessandro,Falkowski,Jan,Swinnen,Johan F. M.,Larson,Donald F.,Lampietti,Julian A.,Gouel,Christophe,Cafiero,Carlo,Roberts,John,De Melo,Jaime A. P.,Portugal-Perez,Alberto,Fafchamps,Marcel,Soderbom,Mans Martin,Gibson,Jhon,Mckenzie,David J.,Zia,Bilal Husnain,Borchert,Ingo,Gootiiz,Batshur,Mattoo,Aaditya

  • Network proximity and business practices in African manufacturing (anglais)

    Patterns of correlation in innovation and contractual practices among manufacturing firms in Ethiopia and Sudan are documented. Network data that indicate whether any two firms in the utilized sample do...

    Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 112396 Date du document: 3 juillet 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fafchamps,Marcel,Soderbom,Mans Martin

  • Network proximity and business practices in African Manufacturing (anglais)

    Patterns of correlation in innovation and contractual practices among manufacturing firms in Ethiopia and Sudan are documented. Network data that indicate whether any two firms in the utilized sample do...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6474 Date du document: 1 juin 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fafchamps,Marcel,Soderbom,Mans Martin

  • The World Bank economic review 26 (3) (anglais)

    This issue of the World Bank economic review includes the following topics of interest: is there a metropolitan bias? the relationship between poverty and city size in a selection of developing countries;...

    Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 80522 Date du document: 1 novembre 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Banerjee,Anindya Kumar,Bas,Maria,Berthou, Antoine,Bosker,Maarten,Fafchamps,Marcel,Ferre,Celine,Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Garretsen, Harry,Lanjouw,Peter F.,Minten,Bart J.,Mohan, Sushil,Russell, Bill,Skoufias,Emmanuel,Tiwari,Sailesh,Yeats,Alexander James,Zaman,Hassan

  • Capital, gender, and microenterprise growth in Ghana (anglais)

    Despite the emphasis placed by microfinance organizations on lending to female business owners, evidence from three recent randomized controlled trials has cast doubt on the ability of capital alone to...

    Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 63674 Date du document: 1 juin 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fafchamps,Marcel,Mckenzie,David J.,Quinn,Simon Redmond,Woodruff,Christopher Marshall

  • The determinants of funding to Ugandan nongovernmental organizations (anglais)

    Original Ugandan data collected by the authors are used to examine the determinants of funding to local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Success in attracting grants from international donors depends...

    Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 77616 Date du document: 1 juin 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fafchamps,Marcel,Owens,Trudy

  • The World Bank economic review 23 (2) (anglais)

    This issue includes the following: dollar a day revisited, by Martin Ravallion, Shaohua Chen, and Prem Sangraula; evidence on changes in aid allocation criteria, by Stijn Claessens, Danny Cassimon, and...

    Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 62985 Date du document: 1 janvier 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cassimon,Danny Pierre,Chen,Shaohua,Claessens, Stijn,Clemens, John,Fafchamps,Marcel,Javorcik,Beata,Jeuland,Marc,Kandilov,Ivan,Lucas, Marcelino,De Melo,Jaime A. P.,Owens,Trudy,Ravallion,Martin,Sangraula,Prem Prasad,Spatareanu,Mariana,Van Campenhout,Bjorn Fh,Whittington,Dale,De Walque,Damien B. C. M.