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Can risk averse competitive input providers serve farmers efficiently in developing countries ?

Makdissi, Paul - 2009

"Under price ceilings and quality floors for agricultural inputs in cash crop sectors in developing countries where credit markets are weak, imperfect information on the ability of farmers to pay for their inputs at the end of the cropping season may lead the decentralized production of those...

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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...

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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

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Public financial management reform in the Middle East and North Africa : an overview of regional experience

Ahern, Mark E. - 2012

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Public finance, security, and development : a framework and an application to Afghanistan

Byrd, William A. - 2009

work and impact of all development partners would be enhanced if the multiple linkages between public finance, security …, and development were explicitly taken into account. At the extreme, in some cases better public finance management could … complementary tools to analyze the security sector from the point of view of public finance management, service delivery, and …

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Fiscal decentralization and fiscal performance

Shah, Anwar - 2005

"A resurgence of recent interest in fiscal federalism has been a source of concern among macroeconomic stabilization experts. They argue that a decentralized fiscal system poses a threat to macroeconomic stability as it is incompatible with prudent monetary and fiscal management. The author...

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