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The Effect of Nonbinding Agreements on Cooperation Among Forest User Groups in Nepal and Ethiopia

Dannenberg, Astrid - 2017

cooperation. Unlike previous studies, this experimental study was conducted among members of forest user groups in Ethiopia and …. Overall, the results show a weak effect of nonbinding agreements on cooperation in the two locations. The main reason for this … is that the cooperation level is relatively high even without an agreement and only a small proportion of subjects change …

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Cooperative Behavior and Common Pool Resources : Experimental Evidence from Community Forest User Groups in Nepal

Bluffstone, Randall A. - 2017

more trees on their own farms and spent more time monitoring community forests. As cooperation appears to be highly … conditional on beliefs about others? cooperation, these results suggest that policies to support cooperation and strengthen local … Degradation should pay particular attention to supporting governance and cooperation at the local level …

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Cooperation and Reciprocity in Carbon Sequestration Contracts

Salas, Paula Cordero - 2017

This paper studies the role of cooperation and reciprocity on the structure of self-enforcing carbon sequestration … altruistic or warm glow preferences increases the likelihood of cooperation in the long-term relationship relative to the case of …

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International Benchmarking of South Africa's Infrastructure Performance

Bogetic, Zeljko - 2016

The paper provides a first systematic, comprehensive benchmarking of South Africa's infrastructure performance in four …

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International Benchmarking of Infrastructure Performance in the Southern African Customs Union Countries

Bogetic, Zeljko - 2016

The paper provides a first, systematic benchmarking of infrastructure performance in the Southern African Customs Union … poor live. The benchmarking is envisaged as a comparative input into deeper analyses of infrastructure performance …

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Exploring Accessibility to Employment Opportunities in African Cities : A First Benchmark

Peralta Quiros, Tatiana - 2019

This paper presents an analysis of transit accessibility to employment for 11 African cities. The use of identical methodologies and similar data sets allows for the creation of the first benchmark to compare accessibility across urban areas in Africa through different metrics and visuals. The...

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International Benchmarking for Country Economic Diagnostics : A Stochastic Frontier Approach

Norambuena, Vivian - 2020

This paper discusses the analytical foundations of international comparisons for assessing a country's potential for improvement along various dimensions of social and economic development. The paper presents the Stochastic Frontier approach and applies it to estimate feasible frontiers or...

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Efficiency of Public Spending in Education, Health, and Infrastructure : An International Benchmarking Exercise

Herrera, Santiago - 2018

Governments of developing countries typically spend between 20 and 30 percent of gross domestic product. Hence, small changes in the efficiency of public spending could have a major impact on aggregate productivity growth and gross domestic product levels. Therefore, measuring efficiency and...

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Benchmarking Costs of Financial Intermediation Around the World

Calice, Pietro - 2018

The costs of financial intermediation have important consequences for financial development. Using bank-level data for 160 countries during 2005-14, this paper analyzes the composition and sources of bank net interest margins. First, it uses an accounting decomposition framework to provide...

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Development Economics as Taught in Developing Countries

McKenzie, David J. - 2017

This paper uses a combination of survey questions to instructors and data collected from course syllabi and examinations to examine how the subject of development economics is taught at the undergraduate and masters levels in developing countries, and benchmark this against undergraduate classes...

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