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...
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...
Efforts at reducing poverty in Africa have been checked by decades of stagnant economic growth with the attendant corollary that few well paying jobs have been created for most sectors of the African work...
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...