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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 …
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increasing the number of workers embedded in the social networks can increase the unemployment rate and decrease workers welfare …
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distribution of unemployment rates across networks. We emphasize that wage dispersion arises endogenously as the consequence of the … necessary induce stickiness in unemployment dynamics. Our endogenous matching technology shows that the effects of networks on …
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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.
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categorized into three subsystems: a policy system; markets, trade, and institutions; and a production system. Within each of …
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This paper reviews the central role of institutions for climate-smart agriculture (CSA), focusing on the role of … institutions in promoting inclusivity, providing information, enabling local level innovation, encouraging investment, and offering … role of state, collective action, and market institutions at multiple levels, with particular attention to the importance …
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complementary institutions and coordination mechanisms to exploit scale economies. The effectiveness of PMGs was determined by the …
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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 …
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"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...
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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...
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