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The Role of Mobile Banking in Expanding Trade Credit and Business Development in Kenya

Tavneet Suri
Christopher Woodruff
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Evaluating an Exporting Scheme in Tunisia

Giacomo De Giorgi
Aminur Rahman
Eric Verhoogen
To promote export diversification, the Tunisian government is implementing a $22 million export matching-grant scheme, TASDIR+. TASDIR+ aims to increase exports and promote export diversification toward higher value-added exports and new markets. This study is using a randomized controlled trial to...
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Tablet-Based Financial Education in Colombia

Orazio Attanasio
Matthew Bird
Lina Cardona-Sosa
Pablo Lavado
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Importance of Ethnic Networks in Business Transactions in India

Rajkamal Iyer
Antoinette Schoar
Researchers evaluated whether the ethnicities of wholesale buyers and sellers in Chennai, India, affected the transaction terms. They found that traders offered lower prices to buyers of the same ethnicity, but not necessarily because they trusted them more.

The Impact of Formal Savings on Salaried Workers’ Spending and Borrowing in Eastern Ghana

Niklas Buehren
Markus Goldstein
Leora Klapper
Tricia Koroknay-Palicz
Robert Osei
Simone Schaner
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The Impact of Family Planning Training on Private Sector Health Care Performance in Nigeria

Sikiru Baruwa
Minki Chatterji
Doug Johnson
Cynthia Kinnan
Modupe Toriola
Jorge Ugaz
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The Impact of Delayed Wage Payments on Spending and Investment in Malawi

Lasse Brune
Jason Kerwin
Qingxiao Li
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of paying workers on a weekly basis or in one lump sum, as well as of receiving payments in contexts with greater temptation to spend, on their spending and investment decisions. Workers assigned to receive lump-sum wages were more...
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The Impact of Decentralizing Education Spending on Student Learning in Senegal

Pedro Carneiro
Oswald Koussihouede
Nathalie Lahire
Costas Meghir
Corina Mommaerts
Researchers partnered with the Senegalese government to evaluate the impact of a decentralized school grants program on student learning. The program improved test scores overall and for girls in younger grades. The impact was stronger in schools that invested more in human resource training rather...