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SACU Tariff Policies: Where Should They Go From Here?
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2008-05)This paper characterizes the current South African Customs Union (SACU) tariff structure, considers its rationale, proposes and evaluates some alternatives for reform. While considerable progress was made earlier in ... -
Sanctions and Export Deflection: Evidence from Iran
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2017-01)Do export sanctions cause export deflection'? Data on Iranian non-oil exporters between January 2006 and June 2011 shows that two- thirds of these exports were deflected to non-sanctioning countries after sanctions were ... -
Sanctions, Benefits, and Rights: Three Faces of Accountability
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2010-10)As countries throughout the world democratize and decentralize, citizen participation in public life should increase. In this paper, I suggest that democratic participation in local government is enhanced when citizens can ... -
Saving in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2000-01)Gross domestic savings in Africa averaged only 8 percent of GDP in the 1980s, compared to 23 percent for Southeast Asia and 35 percent in the Newly Industrialized Economies. Aside from being generally low, saving rates in ... -
Scaling Partnerships to Activate Idle Community Land in South Africa
(CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper Series, 2023-04)We discuss three cases of corporate-smallholder partnerships in South Africa’s former homelands, which have tried to bridge the problem of low productivity by supplying technology, technical assistance and financing along ... -
Scaling PDIA through Broad Agency, and Your Role
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2016-01)Many development challenges are complex, involving a lot of different agents and with unknown dimensions. Solutions to these challenges are often unknown, and contextually dependent. At the same time, there are political ... -
Schooling and Political Participation in a Neoclassical Framework: Theory and Evidence
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2008-09)We investigate how the link between individual schooling and political participation is affected by country characteristics. We introduce a focus on a set of variables - namely factor endowments - which influence the ... -
’Schooling Can’t Buy Me Love’: Marriage, Work, and the Gender Education Gap in Latin America
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2010-06)In this paper we establish six stylized facts related to marriage and work in Latin America and present a simple model to account for them. First, skilled women are less likely to be married than unskilled women. Second, ... -
Schools, Teachers, and Education Outcomes in Developing Countries
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2005-09)Eighty percent of the world's children live in developing countries. For economists working on education, the study of developing countries offers both policy questions of fundamental importance and a rich set of experiences ... -
Science for Global Sustainability: Toward a New Paradigm
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2005-03)This paper provides a context for the Dahlem Workshop on “Earth System Analysis for Sustainability.” The authors begin by characterizing the contemporary epoch of Earth history in which humanity has emerged as a major—and ... -
Screening Peers Softly: Inferring the Quality of Small Borrowers
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2013-03)The recent banking crisis highlights the challenges faced in credit intermediation. New online peer-to-peer lending markets offer opportunities to examine lending models that primarily cater to small borrowers and that ... -
Screening Seguro Popular: The Political Economy of Universal Health Coverage in Mexico
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2013-06)Seguro Popular is the most prominent component of the System of Social Protection in Health launched in Mexico in 2003 to provide health services to 52.7 million of uninsured people, mostly the poorest households. After ... -
Search, Transport Costs, and Labor Markets in South Africa
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2022-11)South Africa’s labor market exhibits a unique equilibrium with one of the highest unemployment rates in the world and yet a low level of informal employment. The unemployment rate has remained high and persistent over ... -
Seeing the Forest for More than the Trees: A Policy Strategy to Curb Deforestation and Advance Shared Prosperity in the Colombian Amazon
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2023-02)Does economic prosperity in the Colombian Amazon require sacrificing the forest? This research compendium of a series of studies on the Colombian Amazon finds the answer to this question is no: the perceived trade-off ... -
Sexually Transmitted Infections, Sexual Behavior and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2005-01)Forty million people are infected with HIV worldwide; twenty-five million of them are in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper addresses the question of why Africa has been so heavily affected by HIV, and what explains the variation ... -
Sharing the Burden of Disease: Gender, the Household Division of Labor and the Health Effects of Indoor Air Pollution
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2005-03)In many rural areas of low-income countries, biomass fuel is the principal source of household energy, meaning that indoor air pollution (IAP) is a serious health problem. If exposure to IAP is greatest in areas where ... -
Shifting Gears: A Growth Diagnostic of Panama
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2017-01)Leveraging on the Canal, Panama has a developed a major comparative advantage in the exportable services sector. In turn, the stellar growth in this sector has spurred the demand for construction, which has been key to ... -
A Simple Theory of Economic Development at the Extensive Industry Margin
We revisit the well-known fact that richer countries tend to produce a larger variety of goods and analyze economic development through (export) diversifcation. We show that countries are more likely to enter ‘nearby’ ... -
Slow Passthrough Around the World: A New Import for Developing Countries?
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2005-02)Developing countries traditionally experience passthrough of exchange rate changes that is greater and more rapid than high-income countries experience. This is true equally of the determination of prices of imported goods, ... -
Small Producer Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Integrating Household Structure and Economic Circumstance in Behavioral Explanation
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2002-10)This study examines the impact household structure and economic circumstances on deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. It presents the results of an analysis conducted at property level, using both survey data and information ...