Search Results - subject:"Local Institutions"

The survival of foreign affiliates in developed countries : a location-based analysis

Miricola, Stefania; Ricchiuti, Giorgio; Velucchi, Margherita - 2024

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Does size really affect turnout? : evidence from Italian municipal amalgamations

Bolgherini, Silvia; Mollisi, Vincenzo - 2024

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Volumetric pricing in rural Central America : drivers of adoption and potential effects on water delivery

Madrigal-Ballestero, Róger; Mullan, Katrina; Pacay, Eduardo - In: World development sustainability 4 (2024), pp. 1-12

In rural and peri‑urban areas of Central America, community water organizations (CWOs) provide water to 60 % of the population, thereby playing a pivotal role in achieving multiple Sustainable Development Goals. However, the underlying environmental, climatic, and institutional factors...

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"It was organized from the bottom" : the response from community-based institutions during the 2014 Ebola epidemic

Franklin, Sabine Iva - In: Journal of institutional economics 19 (2023) 5, pp. 635-650

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Local institutions and pandemics : city autonomy and the black death

Wang, Han; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2021

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Judiciary efficiency and trade in tasks

Accetturo, Antonio; Linarello, Andrea; Petrella, Andrea - 2015

In this paper, we study how contract enforcement at the local level affects a firm's ability to supply customised intermediate inputs to foreign firms. Using Italian firm-level data, we show that firms located in courts with higher judicial trial length in civil disputes, which is our measure of...

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Conditions for Sustainability of the Elephant Marsh Fishery in Malawi

Kosamu, Ishmael B. M. - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 7, pp. 4010-4027

The Elephant Marsh, a wetland in Southern Malawi, is important for small-scale fisheries. It is managed by local … institutions, which are not formally linked to any state institutions. This paper uses qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to … examine factors for sustainability at 24 fishing villages around the wetland using a hypothesis that “If strong local …

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Judiciary efficiency and trade in tasks

Accetturo, Antonio; Linarello, Andrea; Petrella, Andrea - 2014 - First Version: November, 2014

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The transmission of democracy: From the village to the nation-state

Giuliano, Paola; Nunn, Nathan - 2013

We provide evidence that a history of democracy at the local level is associated with contemporary democracy at the national level. Auxiliary estimates show that a tradition of local democracy is also associated with attitudes that favor democracy, with better quality institutions, and higher...

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Local institutions in southwestern Uganda: the role of integrated agricultural research for development

Kalibwani, R; Fungo, B; Tenywa, M; Tukahirwa, J; Mutabazi, S - In: African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 08 (2013) 3

Local institutions are commonly referred to as mediating factors that govern the relationship between a community and …

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