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Can risk averse competitive input providers serve farmers efficiently in developing countries ?
Makdissi, Paul - 2009
season may lead the decentralized production of those inputs by risk averse private input providers to be inefficient. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394216
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Turning the Tide : Saving Fish and Fishers
World Bank - 2014
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the first global assessment of the state of the world's ecological health, published in March 2005, identified global fisheries as one of fi ve global systems in critical condition. This paper is one of many studies that show how on local, regional, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560975
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Bank activity and funding strategies : the impact on risk and returns
Demirgüç-Kunt, Aslı - 2009
"This paper examines the implications of bank activity and short-term funding strategies for bank risk and returns …-interest income generating activities such as trading increases the rate of return on assets, and it may offer some risk …, although it can offer some risk reduction at commonly observed low levels of non-deposit funding. A sizeable proportion of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394131
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Loss aversion and trade policy
Freund, Caroline L. - 2004
"Freund and Ozden provide new survey evidence showing that loss aversion and reference dependence are important in shaping people's perception of trade policy. Under the assumption that agents' welfare functions exhibit these behavioral elements, they analyze a model with a welfare-maximizing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522949
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Growing old in an older Brazil : implications of population ageing on growth, poverty, public finance and service delivery
Gragnolati, Michele (contributor) - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011393670
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Capital for the future : saving and investment in an interdependent world
Dailami, Mansoor (contributor);  … - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011393924
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Exit and save : migration and saving under violence
Grun, Rebekka E. - 2009
"This paper examines how households trade off migration and savings when subject to exogenous violence. The authors … migration decision has been taken, savings can increase as a function of violence to ensure a minimum bundle to carry. Empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394212
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How will China's saving-investment balance evolve ?
Kuijs, Louis - 2006
"This paper investigates how China's saving, investment, and saving-investment balance will evolve in the decades ahead. Household saving in China is relatively high compared with OECD countries. However, much of China's high economywide saving, and the difference between China and other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522104
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Investment and saving in China
Kuijs, Louis - 2005
"The author analyzes sectoral patterns of investment and saving in China-over time and compared with other countries-to shed light on the factors driving high investment and on how saving is channeled into investment. The findings inform several policy debates. Key findings include: (1)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522567
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Household savings and residential mobility in informal settlements
Lall, Somik V. - 2005
rely solely on household savings for purchasing a house. These findings underscore the urgent need to improve savings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522604