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Campeche: Diagnóstico de Crecimiento
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2018-09)Campeche cuenta con el PIB per cápita más alto de todo México. Si bien buena parte de este desempeño se debe a la actividad petrolera (la cual representa 80% de la actividad económica del estado), incluso si se considera ... -
Campeche: Diagnóstico Industrial
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2018-09)En este estudio se consideraron los productos priorizados en el Reporte de Complejidad Económica de Campeche y se procedió a evaluar su potencial a partir de un conjunto de consideraciones de mercado. Luego, se agregó el ... -
Campeche: Insumos para el desarrollo de recomendaciónes
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2018-09)En este documento se presentaron una serie de insumos para el desarrollo de políticas para Campeche, que apuntan a la estructuración de una estrategia de transformación productiva que le permita al estado revertir la ... -
Campeche: Reporte de Complejidad Económica
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2018-09)Este estudio busca identificar las capacidades productivas de Campeche a partir de un análisis de la composición de sus exportaciones y su empleo basándose en la perspectiva de la complejidad económica. Asimismo, busca ... -
Can Africa Compete in World Soccer?
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2022-01)March 2021, the Confederation of African Football’s President, Patrice Motsepe, insisted that “An African team must win the World Cup in the near future.” This visionary statement is infused with hope—not just for an African ... -
Can Entrepreneurial Activity be Taught? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Central America
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2007-12)We study the effect of entrepreneurial training on enterprise outcomes, in particular whether business training for (potential) entrepreneurs of small- and medium scale enterprises can lead to an increase in the number of ... -
Can Foreign Aid Create an Incentive for Good Governance? Evidence from the Millennium Challenge Corporation
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2006-04)The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) awards aid to countries that perform well on a set of independently compiled governance indicators. Proponents of this new form of aid argue that 1) aid will be more effective ... -
Can Good Products Drive Out Bad? Evidence from Local Markets for (Fake?) Antimalarial Medicine in Uganda
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2012-08)Counterfeit and sub-standard antimalarial drugs present a growing threat to public health. This paper investigates the mechanisms that determine the prevalence of fake antimalarial drugs in local markets, their effects, ... -
Can one retell a Mozambican reform story through Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation?
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2014-02)Many public sector reforms in developing countries fail to make governments more functional. This is typically because reforms introduce new solutions that do not fit the contexts in which they are being placed. This ... -
Can Transparency and Accountability Programs Improve Health? Experimental Evidence from Indonesia and Tanzania
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2019-05)We assess the impact of a transparency and accountability program designed to improve maternal and newborn health (MNH) outcomes in Indonesia and Tanzania. Co-designed with local partner organizations to be community-led ... -
A Capable State in Afghanistan
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2013-05)This paper argues that attempts at state-building in Afghanistan have led to institutions that are not robust. The state institutions and organizations continue to be highly dependent on external resources and technical ... -
Capital and Labor Mobility and the Size of Sub-national Governments: Evidence from a Panel of Mexican States
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2012-02)We examine in this paper the relation between government size and capital and labor openness employing a panel of the 32 Mexican states over the period 1996-2006. Making use of two alternative measures of capital and labor ... -
Causal Ordering Between Inflation and Productivity of Labor and Capital: An Empirical Approach for Pakistan
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2009-10)This study attempts to analyze the causal relationship between inflation and productivity of labor and capital, in Pakistan's economy by covering the period from 19601-M1 to 2007-M12. For this purpose Vector Autoregression ... -
Certification Strategies, Industrial Development and a Global Market for Biofuels
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2009-12)A disproportionately large amount of the world's agronomic potential for the production of bio-ethanol is concentrated in a subset of developing countries. To develop that potential, countries need both the existence of ... -
The Challenge of Building (Real) State Capability
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2015-12)Efforts to build state capability often take the form of commonly used, highly designed and engineered best practice solutions that have worked in many other places and that we suspect (and hope) will work again in many ... -
Challenges in Land Tenure and Land Reform in Africa: An Anthropological Perspective
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2007-03)The paper discusses the interface of anthropological research on land with policy positions across formative periods - from the colonial period through to the present as land tenure reform has repeatedly become a development ... -
The Challenges of Universal Health Insurance in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Large-scale Randomized Experiment in Indonesia
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2019-10)To assess ways to achieve widespread health insurance coverage with financial solvency in developing countries, we designed a randomized experiment involving almost 6,000 households in Indonesia who are subject to a ... -
Characteristics and Behavior of African Commodity/Product Markets and Market Institutions and Their Consequences for Economic Growth
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2000-01)This study examines the characteristics and behaviour of key commodity/product markets and market institutions in Africa and their consequences for economic growth. Their contribution to economic growth appears to have ... -
Characteristics and Behavior of African Factor Markets and Market Institutions and Their Consequences for Economic Growth
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 1999-12)This paper provides a detailed characterisation of the structure and behaviour of African factor markets and the institutions that impact on their operations. It shows that the African factor markets are imperfect and ...