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Can Crop Purchase Programs Reduce Poverty and Improve Welfare in Rural Communities? Evidence from the Food Reserve Agency in Zambia

Fung, Winnie; Liverpool-Tasie, Saweda; Mason, Nicole; … - 2015

The last decade has seen a resurgence of parastatal crop marketing institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, many of which cite improving food security and incomes as key goals. However, there is limited empirical evidence on the welfare effects of these programs. This article considers one such...

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An Experimental Test of Career Concerns

Koch, Alexander K.; Morgenstern, Albrecht; Raab, Philippe - 2004

Holmström?s (1982/99) career concerns model has become an important workhorse for the analysis of agency issues in many fields. The underlying signal jamming argument requires players to use information in a Bayesian way – which may or may not reasonably approximate real-life decision makers?...

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Mixed Up? : That's Good for Motivation

Koch, Alexander K.; Peyrache, Eloïc - 2004

An essential ingredient in models of career concerns is ex ante uncertainty about an agent's type. This paper shows how career concerns can arise even in the absence of any such ex ante uncertainty, if the unobservable actions that an agent takes influence his future productivity. By...

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Delegation of Authority as an Optimal (In)complete Contract

Roider, Andreas - 2004

consider a hold-up framework where both parties profit from an investment that raises the value of an asset. Delegation turns …) decisions have no investment-independent effect. If overinvestment might be an issue, delegation, however, with restricted …

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The Political Economy of Kazakhstan: A Case of Good Economics, Bad Politics?

Commander, Simon; Prieskienyte, Ruta - 2021

investment? Can 'good economics' somehow offset the effects of 'bad' politics? Kazakhstan is a case where an autocratic regime … has actively projected market-friendly policies and attracted significant amounts of incoming investment. These policies … investment disputes that question the attachment to the rule of law. Moreover, the political regime remains strongly personalized …

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Market Design for Trading Commoditized Renewable Energy

Heshmati, Almas; Abolhosseini, Shahrouz - 2014

Information and communication technology plays an important role in achieving a higher level of energy efficiency. In particular, energy efficiency can be achieved by integrating information technology into electricity networks to enable the interaction between suppliers and customers (smart...

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Recovery Performance of Primary Agriculture Credit Societies in India: An Assessment

Mazumder, Rabin; Chakravarty, Chandrasekhar; Bhandari, … - 2014

Agricultural credit is one of the most crucial inputs in all agricultural development programmes. Access of rural credit has still remained scarce in India. Primary Agriculture Credit Societies (PACS) working at grass-root level, having direct contact with the rural people and meet their...

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Building Trust in Rural Producer Organizations in Senegal: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Bernard, Tanguy; Frölich, Markus; Landmann, Andreas; … - 2015

Trust is crucial for successful collective action. A prime example is collective commercialization of agricultural produce through producer organizations. We conduct a cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural Senegal in which we vary the number and the type of smallholder farmers - members...

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Market Competition and Discrimination

Siddique, Abu; Vlassopoulos, Michael; Zenou, Yves - 2020

This paper studies the effect of competition on ethnic discrimination by carrying out a field experiment in the context of the rice market in Bangladesh. We recruit professional rice buyers (middlemen) to act as judges in a rice competition by providing a quality rating and a price quote for...

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The Extractive Industry's Impact on Economic Growth in SADC Countries

Nhabinde, Simeão; Heshmati, Almas - 2020

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries are rich in natural resources and in most of them their extractive industries extract and export natural resources with little industrial processing. This study analyzes the direct and indirect impacts that the extractive industries in...

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