If the Internet made it easier for firms to enter new markets by reducing communication and search costs then it may also have made it easier to export goods and services. We find that higher Internet penetration in developing countries is correlated with greater exports to developed countries, but not with trade between developing countries or with exports from developed countries. Interpretin...

Instead of mean-tested Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs, some countries have implemented gender-targeted CCTs to explicitly address intra-household disparities in human capital investments. This study focuses on addressing the direct impact of a female school stipend program in Punjab, Pakistan – Did the intervention increase female enrollment in public schools? To address this question...

With the expanding globalization of trade, grades and standards (G&S) help to set the ‘rules of the game’ and their implications for developing countries are becoming increasingly relevant. While they are clearly important to trade, their formation and utilization is also undergoing a shift from being neutral market lubricants to also being tools of product differentiation. This implies a funda...

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La vallée de Badobar, polarisant 23 villages, est située à cheval entre les communes Mangaroungou Santo et Simbandi Brassou. Elle présente un potentiel terres rizicultivables d’environ 1 500 ha. Cette riziculture globalement pluviale, car elle se produit uniquement pendant l’hivernage. Cependant, la dépendance pluviométrie fait que productrices sont confrontées des contraintes sociales environn...

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There are significant weaknesses in some of the traditional justifications for assuming that aid will foster development. This paper looks at what the cross-country aid effectiveness literature and World Bank Operations Evaluation Department (OED) reviews have suggested about effective aid, first in terms of promoting income growth and then for promoting other goals. This review forms the basis...

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This study implements and tests a mathematical programming model to estimate interregional, interindustry transaction flows in a national system of economic regions based on an interregional accounting framework and initial information of interregional shipments. A national input-output (IO) table, regional data on gross output, value-added, exports, imports and final demand at sector level are...