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      • 2022
      • Article

      Alleviating Time Poverty Among the Working Poor: A Pre-Registered Longitudinal Field Experiment

      By: A.V. Whillans and Colin West
      Poverty entails more than a scarcity of material resources—it also involves a shortage of time. To examine the causal benefits of reducing time poverty, we conducted a longitudinal feld experiment over six consecutive weeks in an urban slum in Kenya with a sample of...  View Details
      Keywords: Time; Subjective Well Being; Administrative Costs; Friction; Poverty; Well-being; Money; Perception; Kenya
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      Whillans, A.V., and Colin West. "Alleviating Time Poverty Among the Working Poor: A Pre-Registered Longitudinal Field Experiment." Art. 719. Scientific Reports 12 (2022).
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      Alleviating Time Poverty among the Working Poor

      By: Ashley Whillans and Colin West
      Poverty entails more than a scarcity of material resources—it also involves a shortage of time. To examine the causal benefits of reducing time poverty, we conducted a longitudinal field experiment over six consecutive weeks in an urban slum in Kenya with a sample of...  View Details
      Keywords: Time-saving Services; Subjective Well-being; Time Use; Cash Transfers; Poverty; Time Management; Well-being
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      Whillans, Ashley, and Colin West. "Alleviating Time Poverty among the Working Poor." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-032, November 2021.
      • December 2013 (Revised April 2014)
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      Seeding Growth in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

      By: Ray Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Djordjija Petkoski
      By 2013, the agricultural sector in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) had long suffered from war, political instability, and dilapidated infrastructure. A country with 75 million inhabitants and the second lowest GDP per capita in the world in 2011, the DRC's...  View Details
      Keywords: National Agricultural Investment Plan (PNIA); Developing Agriculture; World Bank; Poverty Reduction; Special Economic Zones (SEZs); Small-scale Farmers; Agricultural Business Parks; Agriculture Reform; Agribusiness; Economic Growth; Infrastructure; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa; Congo, Democratic Republic of the
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      Goldberg, Ray, Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Djordjija Petkoski. "Seeding Growth in the Democratic Republic of the Congo." Harvard Business School Case 914-401, December 2013. (Revised April 2014.)
      • July 2009 (Revised May 2010)
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      The Millennium Challenge Corporation and Ghana

      By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan
      A U.S. government agency, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), provides aid to developing countries, focusing on poverty reduction through economic growth. It measures results through an economic rate of return based on increases in farmer incomes anticipated...  View Details
      Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Investment Return; Measurement and Metrics; Welfare; Ghana; United States
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      Ebrahim, Alnoor, and V. Kasturi Rangan. "The Millennium Challenge Corporation and Ghana." Harvard Business School Case 310-025, July 2009. (Revised May 2010.)
      • April 2007
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      Microfinance in Bolivia: A Meeting with the President of the Republic

      By: Michael Chu
      Herbert Muller, chair of leading microfinance bank BancoSol, has met with Evo Morales one year after the populist leader's inauguration as president of Bolivia and proceeds to write an email to his fellow board directors. The bank is world famous for pioneering...  View Details
      Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Race; Government Administration; Business and Government Relations; Microfinance; Poverty; Interest Rates; Banks and Banking; Financial Services Industry; Bolivia; South America
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      Chu, Michael. "Microfinance in Bolivia: A Meeting with the President of the Republic." Harvard Business School Case 307-107, April 2007.
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      Multinational Corporations as the Key to Global Poverty Reduction

      By: George C. Lodge and Craig Wilson
      Keywords: Business Ventures; Poverty
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      Lodge, George C., and Craig Wilson. "Multinational Corporations as the Key to Global Poverty Reduction." Challenge 49, no. 3 (May–June 2006): 68–82.
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