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WORKING PAPERS
October 08, 2010
The authors examine the Millennium Villages Project (MVP), an experimental and intensive package intervention to spark sustained local economic development in rural Africa, to illustrate the benefits of rigorous impact evaluation. Estimates of the project’s effects depend heavily on the evaluation m...
January 14, 2010
The raging U.S. immigration debate has largely overlooked the question of how such migration affects developing countries. CGD research fellow Michael Clemens says that economists agree that the migration of unskilled workers is good for the sending countries. More surprisingly, he argues that new r...
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October 09, 2008
We use a panel of country-level crop yields in Africa to estimate the relationship between yields and temperature as well as precipitation. Maize, sorghum, millet, and groundnuts are predicted to show significant yield reductions in the medium term even under moderate warming. Our estimation uses ...