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€™s Republic of China (PRC). Despite its remarkable economic achievement, the PRC faces a difficult path before it can reform and …
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The paper aims at understanding the reasons which influence migration and mobility choices, ways by which vulnerabilities can be managed and the role that local, national and regional policy responses can play in strengthening the knowledge base and improving collaborative platforms for action.
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risk requires individual-specific learning (e.g. resolving the uncertainty about matching to an employer), and (c) some … migrants are close to subsistence and the risk of failure is very costly. A model with these features is tested by examining … heterogeneity in take-up and re-migration, and by conducting a new experiment with a migration insurance treatment. Several pieces …
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The paper seeks to analyse and discuss the impact of financial reform and related institutional change on the process of financial intermediation. In effect reforms stood the earlier quantity driven model on its head. The attempt was to de-segment markets and remove asset and liability...
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vector space belonging to a general class of such spaces. Given this outcome space,he defines general classes of (a) risk … certainty equivalent outcomes corresponding to a lottery, (c) multi-valued mappings that yield the risk premia corresponding to … results to the problem of computing the value of financial assets to a risk averse decision-maker and show that this value …
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Boosting women’s relative control of income and other economic resources has so many consequences that positively … enhance both gender equality and development that female economic empowerment may be close to being a “magic potion …
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surveys undertaken in the study area for flood affected households. The analysis is carried out using a risk sharing and self … insurance framework and econometric modeling is carried out using binary outcomes and multivariate probit estimation through GHK …
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It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in the rural areas of developing countries through the adoption of improved cooking stoves. This belief is largely supported by observational...
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Among the major challenges currently faced by humanity are food security and climate change. Agriculture plays a significant role in both. Adapting to climate change is expected to be an increasing issue for agriculture and food security in the next decades. At the same time, agriculture is part...
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Resolution and conclusions of the 101st Session of the International Labour Conference, Geneva, 2012. [ILO].
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