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Do short-term contracts limit investments in training workers?
Employers under-invest in training their employees in general skills. Evidence from rural Burundi shows that while there are large returns to providing training, these are not captured by the employer who invested in it due to short contract duration...
Inspiring collective action to improve urban air quality in Uganda
Social competitions between neighbourhoods galvanise leadership and inspire collective action to reduce informal waste burning in urban Uganda
Warrantage: A model of rural finance that boosts farmers’ income and investment
Warrantage is an innovative model of rural finance which improves access to credit and crop storage. In Burkina Faso, warrantage increased farmers’ sales revenues, which they spent on education, health, livestock, and future farm capital.
