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Private Capital, Public Goods : Forest Plantations' Investment in Local Infrastructure and Social Services in Rural Tanzania

Degnet, Mohammed B. - 2017

With the rapid expansion of private forest plantations worldwide, their impacts on local development are under scrutiny by NGOs and researchers alike. This study investigates the impacts of private forest plantations on local infrastructure and social services in rural Tanzania. We take a...

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A Simple Model of Health Insurance Competition

Kemnitz, Alexander - 2010

This paper investigates competition between health insurance companies under different financing regulations. We consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health contributions) and by fees (health premia). We find that...

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Taxing Sin Goods and Subsidizing Health Care

Cremer, Helmuth - 2008

We consider a two-period model. In the first period, individuals consume two goods: one is sinful and the other is not. The sin good brings pleasure but has a detrimental effect on second period health and individuals tend to underestimate this effect. In the second period, individuals can...

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Universal Coverage on a Budget : Impacts on Health Care Utilization and Out-of-Pocket Expenditures in Thailand

Limwattananon, Supon - 2013

We estimate the impact on health care utilization and out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures of a major reform in Thailand that extended health insurance to one-quarter of the population to achieve universal coverage while keeping health spending below 4% of GDP. Identification is through comparison...

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Finders, Keepers?

Jaakkola, Niko - 2017

Natural-resource taxation and investment exhibit cycles in a vast number of countries, driving political turmoil and power shifts. Using a rational-expectations model, we show cycles result from governments' inability to commit to future taxes and firms' inability to credibly exit a country...

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Socio-Political Conflict and Economic Performance in Bolivia

Evia, Jose Luis; Laserna, Roberto; Skaperdas, Stergios - 2021

We examine how socio-political conflict in Bolivia has affected its economic performance since the 1970s. Such conflict … characteristics of conflict in Bolivia using a unique data set. We then provide estimates of the direct costs of conflict and examine … how levels of conflict, economic performance, and governance might be related in Bolivia's recent history …

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The Political Economy of Multilateral Aid Funds

Simon, Jenny - 2016

In 2014 over $60 billion was mobilized to help developing nations mitigate climate change, an amount equivalent to the GDP of Kenya. Interestingly, breaking from the traditional model of bilateral aid, donor countries distributed nearly fifty percent of their aid through multilateral aid funds...

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The Costs of Favoritism : Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?

Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2021

As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that...

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Drought and Groundwater Management

Amundsen, Eirik S. - 2016

This paper considers the problem of a water management authority faced with the threat of a drought that hits at an uncertain date. Three management policies are investigated: i) a laissez-faire (open-access) policy of automatic adjustment through a zero marginal private net benefit condition,...

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Water Tariffs and Consumers' Inaction

Ornaghi, Carmine - 2018

We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South-East of England in conjunction with an universal metering pro-gramme. We document how inertia leads customers to relinquish substantial financial gains, with less than a third of...

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