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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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A curse of comparison? : Evidence on reference groups for relative income concerns
Kuegler, Alice - 2009
"This paper proposes that individuals care about the relative income of proximate reference groups. Making use of self …-reported life satisfaction as a proxy for unobservable utility, the relative income of siblings is tested for relevance as a … reference point for new sample data from Venezuela. Having greater perceived income than one's siblings is found to be …
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Transactional sex as a response to risk in Western Kenya
Robinson, Jonathan - 2009
"Formal and informal commercial sex work is a way of life for many poor women in developing countries. Though sex workers have long been identified as crucial in affecting the spread of HIV/AIDS, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, the nature of sex-for-money transactions remains poorly...
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The elimination of Madagascar's vanilla marketing board, ten years on
Cadot, Olivier - 2006
contributed to raise purchase prices and the cash income of vanilla farmers. But the effect on farmers' consumption remains small …
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INGENS - Income Generation through Energy and Complementary Services : Status Report
World Bank - 2013
ongoing work under a joint energy study entitled INGENS - Income Generation through Energy and. Complementary Services. INGENS …
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International migration and gender differentials in the home labor market : evidence from albania
Mendola, Mariapia - 2009
past migration episodes of household members. Controlling for the potential endogeneity of migration and for the income …-dominated Albanian migration may lead to women's empowerment in access to income-earning opportunities at the origin. "--World Bank web …
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Making work pay in Madagascar : employment, growth, and poverty reduction
Hoftijzer, Margo - 2008
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School and work in the Eastern Caribbean : does the education system adequately prepare youth for the global economy?
Blom, Andreas - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521428
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Conditional cash transfers, adult work incentives, and poverty
Skoufias, Emmanuel - 2006
"Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs aim to alleviate poverty through monetary and in-kind benefits, as well as reduce future levels of poverty by encouraging investments in education, health, and nutrition. The success of CCT programs at reducing poverty depends on whether, and the extent...
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