This paper reports on a randomized field experiment that uses price incentives to address economic and gender inequality in land tenure formalization. During the 1990s and 2000s, nearly two dozen African...
In 2003 Kenya abolished user fees in all government primary schools. It shows that this policy contributed to a shift in demand away from free schools, where net enrollment stagnated after 2003, toward...
In 2003 Kenya abolished user fees in all government primary schools. Analysis of household survey data shows this policy contributed to a shift in demand away from free schools, where net enrollment stagnated...
High levels of informality, from 70 percent to 80 percent in many developing country cities, increase poverty and make urbanization unsustainable. But it is not clear if this is due to lack of interest...
Ce rapport affirme que la réduction de la pauvreté en Afrique a été limitée par des décennies de stagnation de la croissance économique. Celle-ci n’a pas permis de créer suffisamment d’emplois bien payés...
Les efforts visant à réduire la pauvreté en Afrique ont été entravés par des années de stagnation de la croissance économique, avec pour conséquence directe peu d’emplois bien rémunérés pour la population...
This paper states that poverty reduction in Africa has been held back by decades of stagnant economic growth that has failed to generate enough well-paid jobs to lift the income of workers in Africa's...