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Mobile Phones and Poverty Alleviation: A Survey Study in Rural Tanzania
2008Access to telecommunication has been cited as a factor for economic development. As such it is expected that mobile phones would increase growth, alleviate poverty and overcome the perceived digital divide.DocumentInformation and Communications Technologies as a Pathway from Poverty: Evidence from East Africa
International Development Research Centre, 2014Even prior to the current era of widespread mobile telephony and internet access, causal relationships between telecommunications infrastructure and economic output had been identified in the literature.DocumentDoes ICT Benefit the Poor? Evidence from South Africa
Essex University, 2008We study the economic effects of the roll-out of mobile phone network coverage in rural South Africa. We address identifcation issues which arise from the fact that network roll-out cannot be viewed as an exogenous process to local economic development. We combine spatially coded data from South Africa's leading network provider with annual labor force surveys.DocumentEvidence and gaps in evidence on the principle political economy constraints and opportunities to successful investment in inclusive agribusiness in Asia
Evidence on Demand, 2016This report pays particular reference to Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Kyrgyz Republic, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Tajikistan. The purpose is to inform a more detailed call down piece of work for DFID to scope the potential establishment of one or more investment platforms through which it would deploy investment capital in order to catalyse private investment in south and central Asia.DocumentTrade reforms, unemployment, household income and welfare: the Philippine case
Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2003The Philippine government pursued major structural economic reforms in the last one and a half decades. One of the sectors where reforms were vigorously pursued is the foreign trade, in which policies of tariff reduction, simplification of tariff structure, and “tariffication” of quantitative restrictions were implemented.DocumentAnalysis of trade reforms, income inequality and poverty using microsimulation approach: the case of the Philippines
Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2003This paper uses a CGE mircosimulation approach to analyze the effects of tariff reduction on poverty and income inequality. The approach relaxes the representative household assumption in the traditional CGE modeling by replacing household groups with individual households.DocumentPoverty and access to microfinance with gender dimension
Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2003Although admittedly still small relative to the size of the entire domestic financial market, the Philippine microfinance market has been developing quite rapidly in the last few years.DocumentThe output gap and its role in inflation-targeting in the Philippines
Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2003The output gap is the difference between the economy’s actual output and potential output, with the latter being the level of prod uction consistent with existing labor, capital and technology. There are several key issues surrounding the output gap in the context of inflation-targeting.DocumentAn initial verdict on our fight against poverty
Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004The primary objective for the conduct of the assessment of the social sector is to provide the basis for setting the thematic priorities for the Philippines, taking into account the development requirements in the next five years. The specific objectives of the study are:DocumentPoverty, vulnerability and family size: evidence from the Philippines
Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2005The role of demographic changes in the development of the Philippines has been highlighted in many papers for a considerable period.Pages