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Institutions, geography, trade, and income per capita: A spatial-simultaneous equation approach
Ngeleza, Guyslain - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
This paper tests a series of prominent hypotheses regarding how institutions, geography, and trade interact to … which country characteristics might affect income through trade and institutions, and then to test the robustness of those … effects. Evidence indicated that both institutions and trade influence growth. Geographical factors such as whether a country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009189425
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Institutional and public expenditure review of Ghana’s Ministry of Food and Agriculture
Kolavalli, Shashidhara; Birner, Regina; Benin, Samuel; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
The need for agricultural ministries to have the capacity to develop appropriate policies and effectively implement them is becoming increasingly important as African countries, following on their commitment to Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP), pursue economic growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008519794
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Breaking the norm: An empirical investigation into the unraveling of good behavior
Hill, Ruth Vargas; Maruyama, Eduardo; Viceisza, Angelino - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
We present results from an artefactual field experiment conducted in rural Peru that considers how observing nonreciprocal behavior influences an individual's decision to reciprocate. Specifically, we consider the behavior of second movers in a trust game, assessing how their decision to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008521823
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Regional policy networks: IFPRI's experience with decentralization
Paarlberg, Robert - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005
"IFPRI, traditionally a centralized development organization, is now embracing networks as one institutional strategy to achieve “regional decentralization.” Since 1999 IFPRI has developed and operated two formal regional networks, in East Africa and South Asia, and additional regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996498
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Water pricing and valuation in Indonesia: case study of the Brantas River Basin
Rodgers, Charles; Hellegers, Petra J.G.J. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005
strengthen the capacity of local institutions to co-manage water resources. In the Brantas Basin the average value of water in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996717
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Information and communication technologies for the poor:
Torero, Maximo; von Braun, Joachim - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005
economic growth? (2) Do weak institutions block effective use of ICTs? (3) Have ICTs been adapted to low-income countries, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997052
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From parastatals to private trade: Lessons from Asian agriculture
Rashid, Shahidur; Gulati, Ashok; Cummings, Ralph Jr. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"Governments in Asia used grain price stabilization as a major policy instrument when they began to promote the Green Revolution in the 1960s. In the process, they created parastatal agencies, which were quasi-governmental in nature, to undertake public marketing activities in basic staples such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997074
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Moving up and moving down: a new way of examining country growth dynamics
Rockmore, Marc; Zhang, Xiaobo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"Do the countries which grow share the same features as those which decline? How can some countries achieve such long-term sustainable growth while others fail so badly? This paper builds on the emerging literature on growth asymmetries by examining movement across income categories in the World...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037959
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An experimental inquiry into the effect of yardstick competition on corruption:
Viceisza, Angelino - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"This study reports theory-testing laboratory experiments on the effect of yardstick competition on corruption. The results reveal that on the incumbent's side, yardstick competition acts as a corruption-taming mechanism only if the incumbent politician is female. On the voter's side, voters...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037981
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Aggregate effects of imperfect tax enforcement:
Robles, Miguel - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
"This paper studies an economy in which the government is not able to perfectly enforce tax compliance among operating firms, and compares it with a similar economy but with perfect tax enforcement. I develop a competitive general equilibrium model where imperfect tax enforcement may affect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037991