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Freund, Caroline L. - 2004

"Freund and Ozden provide new survey evidence showing that loss aversion and reference dependence are important in shaping people's perception of trade policy. Under the assumption that agents' welfare functions exhibit these behavioral elements, they analyze a model with a welfare-maximizing...

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Can risk averse competitive input providers serve farmers efficiently in developing countries ?

Makdissi, Paul - 2009

season may lead the decentralized production of those inputs by risk averse private input providers to be inefficient. A …

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Locking Crops to Unlock Investment : Experimental Evidence on Warrantage in Burkina Faso

World Bank - 2022

, when established through trusted community institutions, can positively influence household incomes and farmers' investment …

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Enabling Scaled-Up Risk Reduction Investments in the Philippines

World Bank - 2023

critical to ramp up the institutional capacity and policies for a comprehensive disaster risk management program and to improve … coordination between oversight and implementing agencies through upgraded legislation with disaster risk reduction measures while … demonstrated that a whole-of-government approach is critical for meaningful results in a multi-sectoral engagement on disaster risk …

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Household survey experience in Africa

Booker, William; Singh, Parmeet; Savane, Landing - 1980

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Early Experiences of Beneficiary Choice in Government-to-Person Payment Architecture in Indonesia

World Bank - 2024

The report has four main chapters, followed by the conclusion and policy recommendations. Chapter 2, context provides overviews of the three programs, including enrollment, the payment process, and demographic characteristics of the beneficiaries. Chapter 3 explains the payment architecture used...

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System of environmental-economic accounting 2012 : experimental ecosystem accounting

European Commission / Statistical Office of the …; … - 2014

The System of Environmental-Economic Accounting 2012-Experimental Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA Experimental Ecosystem Accounting) presents initial efforts to define a measurement framework for integrating biophysical data, tracking changes in ecosystems and linking those changes to economic and...

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The use and misuse of computers in education : evidence from a randomized experiment in Colombia

Barrera Osorio, Felipe - 2009

"This paper presents the evaluation of the program Computers for Education. The program aims to integrate computers, donated by the private sector, into the teaching of language in public schools. The authors conduct a two-year randomized evaluation of the program using a sample of 97 schools...

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The relevance of a rules-based maize marketing policy : an experimental case study of Zambia

Abbink, Klaus - 2008

uncertainty of government behavior impedes it. This paper reports on a laboratory experiment based on a stylized model of the … Zambian maize market. The experiment facilitates a comparison between discretionary interventionism and a rules-based policy … in the economic experiment, the improvement in private sector activity is surprisingly small and not statistically …

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To serve the community or oneself : the public servant's dilemma

Barr, Abigail - 2004

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