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Cooperation in a fragmented society : experimental evidence on Syrian refugees and natives in Lebanon

Drouvelis, Michalis; Malaeb, Bilal; Vlassopoulos, Michael; … - 2019

Lebanon is the country with the highest density of refugees in the world, raising the question of whether the host and refugee populations can cooperate harmoniously. We conduct a lab-in-thefield experiment in Lebanon studying intra- and inter-group behavior of Syrian refugees and Lebanese...

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Fiscal policy during business cycles in developing countries : the case of Africa

Leibfritz, Willi; Rottmann, Horst - 2013

Fiscal positions of African countries have improved significantly during the past decade. Higher economic growth, better terms of trade, improved donor support notably through debt relief and better control of expenditure contributed to this improvement. But at the same time government revenue...

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The negative consequences of overambitious curricula in developing countries

Pritchett, Lant; Beatty, Amanda - 2012

. Using data from three recent studies in South Asia and Africa, we show that a majority of students spend years of …

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Economic analysis and forecasting in the global economy and in emerging and developing regions including Africa : how informative is the Ifo World Economic Survey (WES)?

Garnitz, Johanna; Leibfritz, Willi - 2016

-to-date information about the cyclical stage of the global economy and of major emerging and developing regions including Africa …

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Are trade preferences a panacea? : the African growth and opportunity act and African exports

Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Maemir, Hibret; Mattoo, Aaditya; … - 2019

countries. The illusion of sustained African apparel exports is created by late-bloomers in East Africa offsetting boom …-bust patterns in Southern Africa and insignificant responses in Central and West Africa. Firm-level customs data reveal that even in … East Africa the recent export growth was driven by new entrants rather than incumbent firms whose competitiveness might …

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On the many ways Europeanization matters : the implementation of the water reform in Italy (1994-2006)

Asquer, Alberto - 2009

The research agenda of Europeanization is currently highly focused on issued related to what accounts for the 'horizontal' interaction between domestic actors and how these actors make use of stimuli originating from the EU. This paper aims to contribute to this line of inquiry through the case...

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A tale of two roads : groundwater depletion in the North China Plain

Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Deng, Xiangzheng; Gong, Yazhen; … - 2023

There is a large literature on the role infrastructure plays in economic development, but few papers document the causal effect of infrastructure on the sustainability of natural resources. We examine the effect of the arrival of two new national highways on ground water levels in a small...

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A stochastic multiple players multi-issues bargaining model for the Piave river basin

Sgobbi, Alessandra (contributor); Carraro, Carlo (contributor) - 2007

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Drought and groundwater management

Amundsen, Eirik Schrøder; Jensen, Frank - 2016

This paper considers the problem of a water management authority faced with the threat of a drought that hits at an uncertain date. Three management policies are investigated: i) a laissez-faire (open-access) policy of automatic adjustment through a zero marginal private net benefit condition,...

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Water tariffs and consumers' inaction

Ornaghi, Carmine; Tonin, Mirco - 2018

We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South-East of England in conjunction with an universal metering pro-gramme. We document how inertia leads customers to relinquish substantial financial gains, with less than a third of...

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