Study of the Distributional Performance of Piped Water Consumption Subsidies in 10 Developing Countries

Autor: Juan Pablo Rud, Michael David Thibert, Luis Alberto Andres, German Eduardo Sember, George Joseph, Laura Abramovsky

This paper provides new evidence on how effectively piped water consumption subsidies are targeting poor households in 10 low- and middle-income countries around the world. The results suggest that, in these countries, existing tariff structures fall

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https://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-9245

Challenges to Promoting Social Inclusion of the Extreme Poor: Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment in Colombia

Autor: Laura Abramovsky, Orazio Attanasio, Kai Barron, Pedro Carneiro, George Stoye

Publikováno v: Economía. 16:89-142

We evaluate the large-scale pilot program of an innovative and major welfare intervention in Colombia, which combines home visits by trained social workers to households in extreme poverty with preferential access to social programs. We use a randomi

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https://doi.org/10.31389/eco.79

Are corporate tax incentives for investment fit for purpose? Revisiting economic principles and evidence from low- and middle-income countries

Autor: Ataklti Weldeabzgi, Nicolo Bird, Yohannes Abrha Beyene, Yani Tyskerud, India Keable-Elliott, Laura Abramovsky, Edward Abrokwah, Tom Harris

Corporate income tax is an important source of revenue for many low- and middle-income countries. At the same time, many such countries lose much needed revenues by providing corporate tax (and non-tax) incentives in the hope of attracting mobile bus

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https://hdl.handle.net/10419/201782

Sustainable Total Sanitation – Nigeria: first SanMark impact evaluation report

Autor: Britta Augsburg, Laura Abramovsky, Francisco Oteiza

In this report, we focus on understanding the context for the Sanitation Marketing (SanMark) intervention and potential initial impacts, after its gradual development and roll-out to selected treatment areas in the Nigerian states of Ekiti and Enugu.

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https://doi.org/10.1920/re.ifs.2017.0133

Domestic Effects of Offshoring High-skilled Jobs:Complementarities in Knowledge Production

Autor: Laura Abramovsky, Griffith, Rachel, Helen Miller

Publikováno v: Laura Abramovsky,, Griffith, R & Helen Miller 2017, ' Domestic Effects of Offshoring High-skilled Jobs : Complementarities in Knowledge Production ', Review of International Economics, vol. 25, no. 1 . https://doi.org/10.1111/roie.12242

We provide evidence on how changes in the use of high-skilled workers (inventors) in a foreign location affect a firm's domestic use of the same type of worker. We exploit rich data that provide variation in the location of inventors within multinati

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https://doi.org/10.1111/roie.12242