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Boiling point in Africa: Climate change and inter-group conflict across the continent
Resource constraints due to climate change are increasing conflicts between herders and farmers trying to make a living
Informality and the effects of trade in developing countries
What are the effects of trade amidst a large informal sector? New research studies a model tightly connected to data on firms and workers in Brazil
Can laws change attitudes and behaviours around child marriage in the absence of strict enforcement? Experimental evidence from Bangladesh
A video experiment uncovers the potential pitfalls of relying on legal reforms alone to reduce female early marriage in low-income countries
Africa's roads make the rich richer
Do politicians and presidents build roads to allow their citizens to get around, or is it primarily to make themselves richer?
Rank and peer effects in higher education: Evidence from India
A more selective academic environment benefits female students along multiple dimensions but male students fail to take advantage of this exposure
Improving management practices through individual and group consulting: Evidence from Colombia
By leveraging peer-learning effects, group-based consulting can be cheaper and more effective than individual interventions in improving SME performance
Politics and ethnicity in Africa
The spread of export agriculture and print technologies across Africa transformed ethnicity via their effects on politicisation and boundary-making
Is mobile money changing the rural landscape? Evidence from Mozambique
The introduction of mobile money promoted migration out of rural areas by easing long-distance transfers and increasing resilience
How financial education of managers can help improve firm practices: Evidence from Mozambique
Low-cost interventions such as executive education courses can improve firms’ financial practices and decision making, and trigger economic development
Implementing poverty-reduction interventions at scale: Challenges and considerations
Programmes aimed at alleviating poverty must be designed in cost-effective ways before they can be used by government as viable public policy at scale
