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The Price of Empowerment: Experimental Evidence on Land Titling in Tanzania
Dercon, Stefan; Ayalew, Daniel; Deininger, Klaus; … - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014
land tenure formalization.  During the 1990s and 2000s, nearly two dozen African countries proposed de jure land reforms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011159043
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Informal Agricultural Work, Habitus and Practices in an Indian Context
Olsen, Wendy - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007
This paper examines recent employment practices among 39 families of Rayalaseema area of Andhra Pradesh, India.  A social class analysis offers a starting point for the study of employment contracts.  Employment practices are diverse, but the habitus of the employers and employees sometimes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004319
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Conflict of interest as a barrier to local accountability
Barr, Abigail; Zeitlin, Andrew - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011
Using a specially designed lab-type experiment conducted in the field, we compare the willingness of head teachers, centrally appointed public servants, and community representatives to hold Ugandan primary school teachers to account.  We find no difference in the willingness of centrally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004348
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Structure, Agency, and Strategy Among Tenants in India
Olsen, Wendy - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007
This paper arises from the Global Poverty Research Group (www.gprg.org), under which I have conducted fieldwork in rural south India.  My focus is on strategies, choice, and constraints as aspects of tenants' decisions.  My aim is to treat tenants (as both households and as individual agents)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004487
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Moral Political Economy and Poverty: Four Theoretical Schools Compared
Olsen, Wendy - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2005
This paper explores a pluralist approach to moral economy. Firstly, four schools of thought on the rental of land in India are described. The normatic and ontic assumptions of each school are described. Then I look closely at a debate between two feminist authors, Agarwal and Jackson. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604838
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Pluralist Methodology for Development Economics: The Example of Moral Economy of Indian Labour Markets
Olsen, Wendy - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2006
This paper adds a moral angle to a pluralist approach to development economics. Normative assumptions can be found in all the five main schools of thought that have analysed India`s rural labour markets (neoclassical, new institutionalist, Marxist political economy, formalised political economy,...
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Can capital grants help microenterprises reach the productivity level of SMEs? Evidence from an experiment in Sri Lanka
Janes, Laurin - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2013
, the larger in-kind grants allowed for increases in productivity to the least productive firms.  The paper then uses data … from a representative sample of formal firms to put the TFP levels and treatment effects in the microenterprises into … perspective.  The results suggest that the least productive firms were able to catch up with the average microenterprise and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011159013
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Trade, skill-biased technical change and wages in Mexican manufacturing
Caselli, Mauro - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010
exogenous and trade-induced, on the skill premium and real wages of unskilled and skilled workers in the Mexican manufacturing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004125
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Running to Stand Still? - Intellectual Property and Value Added in Innovating Firms
Greenhalgh, Christine; Longland, Mark - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2002
, imitation and inventing around other firm`s products is possible, so we examine the size and duration of benefits to IP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977847
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Trade Marks and Performance in UK Firms: Evidence of Schumpeterian Competition through Innovation
Greenhalgh, Christine; Rogers, Mark - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007
This paper uses novel data on trade mark activity of UK manufacturing and service sector firms to investigate whether … trade marks improve the profitability and productivity of firms. We first analyse Tobin`s q, the ratio of stock market value …, using a value added production function. Finally we examine interactions between firms IP activity, to explore creative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090631