EPRU Prof Martine Visser´s research in the spotlight as 'Day Zero’ approaches
As Cape Town faces the worst drought in a century, the city may need to shut off running water to homes and businesses in an effort to crisis-manage the last remaining water in the metropole's dams.…
Ties that bind: Network redistributive pressure and economic decisions in village economies
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In this paper, we identify economic implications of the pressure to share resources within a social network. Through a set of field experiments in rural Tanzania we randomly increased the expected harvest of the treatment group by the assignment of an improved and much more productive variety of maize.