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This study analyzes social, ethnic and regional determinants of child malnutrition, as well as the effects of access to health services in the Andean Region, through a comparison between Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. These three countries share a profile with high stunting prevalence and strong...
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Bank and other agencies. By contrast, nutrition began to improve only in the 1990s and remains high. The Bangladesh … Integrated Nutrition Program (BINP) has played a small role, if any, in this progress, which is mainly attributable to higher …
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The objective of this study is to bring out the case of poverty, undernourishment and health conditions of casual labourers in Shillong, the capital city of Meghalaya, India. Casual labourers are those workers who work for a very short duration (for a few hours, a day or at most a few days under...
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The objective of this study is to bring out the case of poverty, undernourishment and health conditions of casual labourers in Shillong, the capital city of Meghalaya, India. A large section of the unskilled labourers work as casual workers. Casual labourers are those workers who work for a very...
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A central prediction of the quasi-hyperbolic model of time preference is that consumers will be impatient over short-run tradeoffs. I present the first nonlaboratory test of this implication using data on the nutritional intake of food stamp recipients. Caloric intake declines by 10 to 15...
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asset that is too large or too risky for a single individual or financial institution so that an auction method is not … and a SS is provided. The difference between an auction scheme and a subscription scheme is discussed. …
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private and common valuations as special cases. We show that the key determinant of bidders' surplus (and implicitly auction … format of the auction matters. If bidders have constant marginal utilities for objects up to some limit, then uniform price …
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We study the influence of product market competition on the first-price sealed auction and the English ascending … auction with independent cost types. Bidders, valuing the license basing on the information released in the first stage … thus how much to bid, but also the information released in the auction when they win. As in the English ascending auction …
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We investigate the outcome of an auction where the auctioneer approaches one of the two existing bidders and offers an … arrangements, corruption affects both bidding behavior, efficiency and the seller's expected revenue in a first-price auction. …
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-oriented setting. An auction is a market institution with an explicit set of rules determining resource allocation and prices on the … Turkish GSM 1800 MHz auction held in April, 2000 within auction theory and competition policies framework. According to the … findings of this study, since the auction design inappropriately dealt with market conditions, Is-Tim, winning bidders of one …
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