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World Institute for Development Economics Research
Facility•Helsinki, Finland•
About: World Institute for Development Economics Research is a facility organization based out in Helsinki, Finland. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Poverty & Population. The organization has 110 authors who have published 525 publications receiving 17316 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an estimation of the impacts of micro-credit on labor and human capital following a quasi-experiment specifically designed to control for endogeneity and selection bias in the context of urban Mexico.
Abstract: This paper presents an estimation of the impacts of microcredit on labor and human capital following a quasi-experiment specifically designed to control for endogeneity and selection bias in the context of urban Mexico. We find important indirect trickle-down effects of credit through labor expenditure that benefit poor laborers; however, these effects were only observed when loan-supported enterprising households reached a level of income well above the poverty line. We also find significant, although small impacts of credit on
children´s schooling that could be potentially reinforced by improvements in lending technology, school grants and additional ex-ante preventive and ex-post protective riskcoping products.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate the current magnitude of gender gaps in literacy and numeracy in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, using large-scale nationally representative data of children ages 6-16.
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TL;DR: Has there been an economic miracle during Mrs Thatcher's decade in office? Richard Layard and Stephen Nickell as discussed by the authors describe the government's achievements, but ultimately conclude that despite benefits there nave been major costs.
Abstract: Has there been an economic miracle during Mrs Thatcher's decade in office? Richard Layard and Stephen Nickell describe the government's achievements, but ultimately conclude that despite benefits there nave been major costs.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared male and female perceptions of typical entrepreneurship support services, such as government provision of information, training and funding, and found that existing support services are inadequate for promoting female entrepreneurship.
Abstract: Whether policy support should be designed differently for women entrepreneurs is a particularly relevant question. To answer this, and to inform the design of policies to provide appropriate support for women entrepreneurs, the paper compares male and female perceptions of typical entrepreneurship support services, such as government provision of information, training and funding. The focus is on Tunisia, a developing country characterized by high level of unemployment, particularly of women. Based on a survey of 50 men and 50 women entrepreneurs in the regions of Sfax, Sousse and Tunis, our results suggest that existing support services are inadequate for promoting female entrepreneurship. Accordingly we discuss support measures specifically designed for women entrepreneurs.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Partha Dasgupta | 85 | 323 | 38303 |
Richard Layard | 58 | 262 | 23309 |
Sherman Robinson | 57 | 354 | 21470 |
Finn Tarp | 54 | 405 | 13156 |
Mark McGillivray | 46 | 161 | 5877 |
Almas Heshmati | 43 | 404 | 9088 |
Wim Naudé | 43 | 247 | 7400 |
Luc Christiaensen | 41 | 163 | 8055 |
James Thurlow | 40 | 159 | 5362 |
Channing Arndt | 39 | 205 | 4999 |
Anthony F. Shorrocks | 38 | 81 | 12144 |
Laurence R. Harris | 37 | 217 | 4774 |
Nanak Kakwani | 37 | 145 | 9121 |
Giovanni Andrea Cornia | 36 | 159 | 4897 |
George Mavrotas | 35 | 81 | 4686 |