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Securing Water for Agriculture : A Guide to Investment Decisions
World Bank - 2012
How can the world grow more food, increase incomes, reduce poverty, and protect the environment with growing numbers of mouths to feed and increasingly constrained resources? A big part of the answer lies in better management of agricultural water. Agricultural water management (AWM) encompasses...
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Concentrating solar power in developing countries : regulatory and financial incentives for scaling up
Kulichenko, Natalia - 2012
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No more cutting class? : reducing teacher absence and providing incentives for performance
Rogers, F. Halsey - 2009
series of recent World Bank and other studies on teacher absence and incentives for performance. Surprise school visits … these shortcomings, but also on the types of incentives, management, and support structures that can improve motivation and …
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Long-term financial incentives and investment in daughters : evidence from conditional cash transfers in north India
Sinha, Nistha - 2009
"Since the early 1990s, several states in India have introduced financial incentive programs to discourage son preference among parents and encourage investment in daughters' education and health. This study evaluates one such program in the state of Haryana, Apni Beti Apna Dhan (Our Daughter,...
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Optimal pre-merger notification mechanisms : incentives and efficiency of mandatory and voluntary schemes
Rodríguez González, Aldo Javier - 2009
"The authors compare the two merger control systems currently employed worldwide: a mandatory system based on merger size threshold and a voluntary system with ex-post monitoring and fines. The voluntary system possesses two informational advantages: (i) the enforcement agency employs more...
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Social assistance in the new EU member states : strengthening performance and labor market incentives
Ringold, Dena - 2007
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Vouchers for basic education in developing countries : a principal-agent perspective
Vawda, Ayesha - 2003
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How tax policy and incentives affect foreign direct investment : a review
Morisset, Jacques - 2000
Tax incentives neither make up for serious deficiencies in a country's investment environment nor generate the desired …
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Improving state enterprise performance : the role of internal and external incentives
Muir, Russell - 1995
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Options for Low Income Countries' Effective and Efficient Use of Tax Incentives for Investment : Tools for the Assessment of Tax Incentives
International Monetary Fund - 2015
This background paper describes five different tools that can be used for the assessment of tax incentives by … framework for assessment. Evaluations of the various costs and benefits of tax incentives are vital for informed decision making … light on the implications of tax parameters - including targeted tax incentives - on investment returns and help understand …
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