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The Choice of Institutions: The Role of Risk and Risk-Aversion
Weinhold, Diana; Zak, Paul J. - EconWPA - 2005
Institutions can affect individual behavior both via their efficiency impact and via their risk reducing mechanisms … simultaneously extant institutions. This paper presents a simple model of institutional choice in a labor market when there is a risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118909
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Strengthening capacity for resilient food systems: Approaches and research gaps:
Babu, Suresh Chandra; Blom, Sylvia - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
In the wake of the food and financial crises of 2007–2008 and 2011, building resilient food systems to achieve food security for all has become one of the top goals of the development agenda.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277413
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Capacity development for resilient food systems: Issues, approaches, and knowledge gaps:
Babu, Suresh Chandra; Blom, Sylvia - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
categorized into three subsystems: a policy system; markets, trade, and institutions; and a production system. Within each of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277435
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Transition in FSU and sub-Saharan countries: The role of institutions
Laurila, Juhani - EconWPA - 2002
institutions also influences economic growth and the ability of a country to attract trade and foreign direct investment …. Consequently, when institutions of FSU and sub-Saharan countries develop to the point they become attractive to traders and … commit credibly to increasing capacities of their state institutions with a view to supporting property-based rule of law and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076830
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Understanding Regulatory Environments and their Impact on Economic Change
James, Harvey; Johnson, Derek - EconWPA - 2002
We propose a framework for evaluating the effectiveness of regulatory activity based on the distinctions among boundary, conduct, and attribute regulation. The standard we use to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of regulations creating boundaries, regulating conduct, and defining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076905
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Rural institutions and producer organizations in imperfect markets: experiences from producer marketing groups in semi-arid eastern Kenya
Shiferaw, Bekele; Obare, Gideon; Muricho, Geoffrey - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
complementary institutions and coordination mechanisms to exploit scale economies. The effectiveness of PMGs was determined by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113240
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The voracious appetites of public versus private property: a view of intellectual property and biodiversity from legal pluralism
Wiber, Melanie G. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005
only from legal institutions that mediate property rights, but also from social institutions that determine and distribute … rights, and how these legal and social institutions interface. The three-tiered model presented in this paper ideological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113245
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Collective action in plant genetic resources management: gendered rules of reputation, trust and reciprocity in Kerala, India
Padmanabhan, Martina Aruna - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"Collective action aims at the joint management of common pool resources. Agrobiodiversity at the community level is conceptualized as a collective resource requiring the management of varieties, species and their interrelations within a farming-system. In the rice dominated agriculture in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113250
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Methods for studying collective action in rural development:
Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; Di Gregorio, Monica; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004
With renewed recognition of the importance of collective action in many aspects of agriculture, natural resource management, and rural development programs in developing countries, there is a need for research on the factors that affect its emergence, as well as its performance. Yet because of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113253
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International conference on policy and institutional options for the management of rangelands in dry areas: workshop summary paper
Ngaido, Tidiane; McCarthy, Nancy; Di Gregorio, Monica - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2002
working groups evaluated outcomes of policies and institutions guiding rangeland management in terms of their impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113255