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Conditional cash transfers: Do they work?

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Childcare and development

The benefits of early childcare are well-known. Orazio Attanasio looks at the different mechanisms to effectively deliver childcare at scale.

Public Economics

Orazio Attanasio

Published

18.01.18

Informal taxation: A new regime

Informal taxation is common in developing countries. Ben Olken presents facts on this new system based on 10 surveys around the world.

Finance

Benjamin Olken

Published

16.01.18

Land Rights and Urban Poverty

Sebastian Galiani on the impact Argentina’s land title policy had on credit access, housing quality, family welfare and economic ideology.

Infrastructure

Sebastian Galiani

Published

12.01.18

Summary: How to Effectively Target Development Transfers

Summary video of Ben Olken discussing the effectiveness of and trade-offs between different methods of targeting development assistance.

Public Economics

Benjamin Olken

Published

07.01.18

Liberalising the domestic retail market

How does the entry of foreign retailers into domestic markets affect welfare? Dave Atkin discusses evidence from Mexico.

Firms

David Atkin

Published

02.01.18

Lending to female-owned small enterprises in Sri Lanka and Ghana

Investment in small firms led to monthly returns of 6% in Sri Lanka. However, the returns are negligible for female-owned enterprises.

Firms

Christopher Woodruff

Published

18.12.17

Return to capital in small firms

Investment in small firms led to monthly returns of 6% in Sri Lanka. However, the growth prospects for most of them remain unchanged.

Firms

Christopher Woodruff

Published

12.12.17

Part 2: How to Effectively Target Development Transfers

Part 2: Ben Olken discusses the effectiveness of and trade-offs between different methods of targeting development assistance.

Public Economics

Benjamin Olken

Published

05.12.17

How to effectively target development transfers

Ben Olken discusses the effectiveness and trade-offs of different methods of targeting development assistance.

Public Economics

Benjamin Olken

Published

01.12.17

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Childcare and development

Informal taxation: A new regime

Land Rights and Urban Poverty

Summary: How to Effectively Target Development Transfers

Liberalising the domestic retail market

Lending to female-owned small enterprises in Sri Lanka and Ghana

Return to capital in small firms

Part 2: How to Effectively Target Development Transfers

How to effectively target development transfers