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The Costa Rican experience: extreme weather events partially explain permanent internal migration as an adaptive measure. A new body of evidence has emerged suggesting that climate is increasing…
1 December 2011 | Research Brief | Central AmericaTrees play multiple roles for rural households, providing significant economic and ecological benefits. With trees, households can sell wood for fuel and construction materials, for example, or non…
21 September 2012 | Research Brief | Ethiopia, Global Hub19 April 2024 | Research Brief | India
Over the years, money-metric measures of inequality such as the Gini coefficient and the Palma Ratio, as frequently used in Ghana, have become useful in providing quantitative measures of welfare…
27 January 2024 | Research Brief | GhanaFemale-owned businesses continue to be smaller and less profitable than male-owned firms. We conduct an RCT in Ghana on a sample of 1,771 growth-oriented female entrepreneurs to investigate the effect…
27 January 2024 | Research Brief | GhanaStructural transformation in rural spaces in developing economies remains elusive. Although the agricultural sector in Africa has often been viewed as a critical sector with the potential to provide…
27 January 2024 | Research Brief | GhanaGhana-s current youth unemployment rate is 19.7%, and the country faces a significant youth unemployment problem. While a range of youth-employment programs have been created over the years, no…
27 January 2024 | Research Brief | Ghana
The major aim of this study is to investigate the impact of foreign aid on Uganda’s economic growth for the period 1980 - 2012 using secondary time series obtained from World Bank (2014) development...
10 January 2024 | Research Brief | UgandaAssessing progress on sustainability in fisheries presents an urgent need to evaluate how management reforms interact with fishing communities to not only assure the health of the fish stock, but also…
9 November 2020 | Research Brief | ColombiaParks and nature reserves created for conservation often become forest islands in a matrix of other land uses. Their species populations often decline due to this forest fragmentation. There is…
30 October 2019 | Research Brief | Tanzania