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Matching for Credit: Risk and Diversification in Thai Microcredit Groups
Ahlin, Christian - eSocialSciences - 2010
unobservable risk, Ghatak (1999, 2000) shows that group-based, joint liability contracts price for risk more accurately than … individual contracts, provided that borrowers match homogeneously by risk-type. This more accurate risk-pricing can attract safe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008500225
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Insurance and Investment within Family Networks
Angelucci, Manuela; Giorgi, Giacomo de; Rasul, Imran; … - eSocialSciences - 2010
In this paper family networks affecting informal insurance and investment is being studied. Panel data from the randomized evaluation of PROGRESA in rural Mexico and the information on surnames of household heads and their spouses to identify extended families have been used. Members of an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008465662
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New Steps to Faster and Broader Debt Relief for Developing Countries
Kaiser, Jürgen; Schröder, Frank - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper mainly describes he concepts of FTAP and explains the current political state of affairs in the international discussions. [FES]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512449
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Doctrine of Precedent in WTO
Rai, Sheela - eSocialSciences - 2007
This paper contends that the general understanding that precedent system does not apply in the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism. The author argues that the drafters or the negotiators always wanted to have a judicial system resembling those that apply in the common law countries with the hope...
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Preventing Odious Obligations: A New Tool for Protecting Citizens from Illegitimate Regimes
eSocialSciences; Centre for Global Development - 2010
need to levy taxes to fulfill debt contracts incurred in this manner for fear of legal retribution and loss of reputation … with investors if they fail to repay. And in the case of natural resource contracts, citizens continue to suffer from the … sweetheart contracts that deprive the government of deserved revenues. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008763393
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The Public Procurement Bill, 2012
eSocialSciences; Ministry of Finance - 2012
A bill to regulate public procurement with the objectives of ensuring transparency, fair and equitable treatment of bidders, promoting competition, enhancing efficiency and economy and safeguarding integrity in the procurement process and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650333
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Entry Threats and Inefficiency in ‘Efficient Bargaining’
Pal, Rupayan; Saha, Bibhas - eSocialSciences - 2010
wage is not observed, contracts feature over-employment. Under separating equilibrium the low type is over-employed, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008520383
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Civil War: A Review of Fifty Years of Research
Blattman, Christopher; Miguel, Edward - eSocialSciences - 2009
A review of several decades of scholarship on civil war, focusing on the answers to key questions: Why do wars begin? Who fights? How are armed groups organized? How can we end and prevent internal war? A survey of the growing body of macroeconomic and microeconomic evidence to assess the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543100
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Vital Stats: Pricing of Petroleum Products
Malik, Karan - eSocialSciences - 2012
Government owned Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) raised the price of petrol on 23rd May 2012. After the inclusion of local taxes, this amounted to a hike of Rs 7.54 per litre in Delhi. A snapshot of the petroleum import and pricing scenario in India. [PRS]....
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A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Aadhaar
eSocialSciences; National Institute of Public Finance … - 2013
This study estimates the costs and benefits of Aadhaar. The analysis takes into account the costs of developing and main- taining Aadhaar, and of integrating Aadhaar with the schemes over the next ten years. [Planning Commission Report].
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