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Drought Coping Strategies and Their Effectiveness: The Case of Ward 12 in Mberengwa District Zimbabwe
Masendeke, Sally; Shoko, Kampion - In: International Journal of Social Science Studies 2 (2014) 1, pp. 137-152
The study was carried out in Mberengwa Ward 12, which is characterised by erratic and inadequate rainfall. Drought … drought coping strategies that are in place and to establish their effectiveness. The data was collected from informants … through questionnaires, group discussions and special interviews with key persons. Drought coping strategies which were …
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Sterilization and Inflation in the Long-Term Empirical Evidence from Egypt
Elhendawy, Emad Omar - In: Applied Economics and Finance 2 (2015) 2, pp. 68-78
bank of Egypt causes inflation in the long term. In this paper we use annual data from 1980 to 2011and use Granger … four and five lags, that any intervention by the central bank sterilization in Egypt is causing inflation in the period … significant. This means that the results of the intervention of the Central Bank of Egypt through the sterilization policy does …
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Social Movements in Tunisia and Egypt: A Tale of Two Revolutions
Mahmoud, Abdesselem - In: International Journal of Social Science Studies 3 (2015) 3, pp. 8-20
In this paper, the author addresses the Arab uprisings both in Tunisia and Egypt. He tries to explain to which extent …
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The Economy of Obligation: Incomplete Contracts and the Cost of the Welfare State
Offer, Avner - In: Economic Policy (2013) 2, pp. 109-126
Western governments usually are sent about 30% of GDP for social purposes. Financing is carried out due to tax payments through the system of taxes from current revenue (hereinafter - PAYGO, pay-as-you-go). How effective such transfers, and whether the market or other mechanisms to improve this...
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Pollution Externalities: Social Cost and Strict Liability
Lewin, Peter - In: Cato Journal 2 (1982) 1, pp. 205-229
This paper critically considers the neoclassical social-cost approach to problems of pollution. This traditional approach, when subjected to close scrutiny, is found to be seriously wanting in applicability and consistency. A less ambitious alternative based on notions of strict liability is...
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Legal Issues in Pollution-Engendered Torts
Best, Robert K.; Collins, James I. - In: Cato Journal 2 (1982) 1, pp. 101-136
The end ofWorld War II marked the birth of the modern chemical industry. From that time synthetic rubbers, fibers, and complex organohalogens have been produced in large commercial quan- tities, such that each member of modern society is exposed to chemicals of exotic physiocheniical activity....
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Imposed Risk Controversies: A Critical Analysis
Sauer, Gerald L. - In: Cato Journal 2 (1982) 1, pp. 231-253
In this paper I will focus on risk controversies of a familiar type: Someone in one locale is concerned about being seriously injured as a result of human activities carried on elsewhere. The discussion will be limited to risks that are unintentional in the sense that no one is deliberately...
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Cost-Benefit Analysis, Environmentalism, and Rights
Langlois, Richard N. - In: Cato Journal 2 (1982) 1, pp. 279-304
T0 the practical mind, particularly one trained in economics, it might sound a trifle paradoxical to suggest that the truly important issues in a public policy debate have nothing to do with the relative efficacy of the policy options. Paradoxical or not, this is very often the case. And there...
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Law, Property Rights, and Air Pollution
Rothbard, Murray - In: Cato Journal 2 (1982) 1, pp. 55-99
Law is a set of commands; the principles of tort or criminal law, which we shall be dealing with, are negative commands … wrong to such a degree that it is considered appropriate to use the sanctions of violence (since law is the social …
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Can Water Pollution Policy Be Efficient?
Milliman, Jerome W. - In: Cato Journal 2 (1982) 1, pp. 165-204
In 1972 Congress established the Federal Water Pollution Control Act in which the Environmental Protection Agency was …
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