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The first goal of the present work focuses on the need for different rationing methods of the The Global Change and Financial Transition (GFT) work- ing group at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK): I provide a toolbox which contains a variety of rationing methods to be ap-...
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The objective of the study is to identify how micro-enterprises can be integrated into local value chains by using the so-called "value chain approach". The "value chain approach" has become a relatively popular approach among donor agencies and NGOs engaged in Private Sector Development in...
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The dissertation considers construction of confidence intervals for a cumulative distribution function F(z) and its inverse at some fixed points z and u on the basis of an i.i.d. sample where the sample size is relatively small. The sample is modeled as having the flexible Generalized Gamma...
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simulated spatial labor market model is used to explore the economic effects of various stages of regional integration …
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ecological spatial model, and this is done in chapter 8. Finally, I wanted to put together the earlier improvements to the CAR … performed better than the usual models, but only when both outcomes shared a strong spatial correlation. The next objective … spatial correlation in the outcomes, as well as accommodating both individual and areal measures of covariates. Using the …
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paper, a programming approach is used in tandem with spatial economic theory to understand the spatial welfare impacts of an …
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. Finally, in a spatial econometric framework, I test for the presence and magnitude of network spillovers from infrastructure …
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description of the structure of the thesis.Chapter 2 provides a literature review of studies that have focused on spatial … analogue of a linear probability can be formulated as a spatial autoregressive Cliff and Ord (1973, 1981)-type model. The sets … of Monte Carlo experiments show that the parameters of the model can be estimated without bias using a spatial 2SLS …
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Cambodia's exporting garment factories to explore (1) the impact of foreign ownership on wages and working conditions, (2 …
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The current ACIAR (Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research) guidelines forimpact assessment of agricultural development projects see impact assessment as being usefulfor both accountability to stakeholders and as a learning tool to find out what works, whatdoesn’t work and...
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