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Explaining positive deviance in public sector reforms in development
Andrews, Matt - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 74 (2015), pp. 197-208
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Barriers to political analysis in aid bureaucracies : from principle to practice in DFID and the World Bank
Yanguas, Pablo; Hulme, David - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 74 (2015), pp. 209-219
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011525913
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Measuring livelihood resilience : the Household Livelihood Resilience Approach (HLRA)
Quandt, Amy - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 107 (2018), pp. 253-263
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Corporate Social Responsibility in India : Law, Regulation and Politics
Bharti, Shuchi - 2022
Social Responsibility in India: International Arena and Social Development -- Chapter 4: Politics of Corporate Social … international governance framework pertaining to CSR, that is primarily based on soft law attributes. Such international soft law … research work on assessing the Regulatory and Governance aspects of the Indian case of Corporate Social Responsibility. She has …
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Clientelism, corruption and the rule of law
Lindberg, Staffan I.; Lo Bue, Maria C.; Sen, Kunal - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 158 (2022), pp. 1-30
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Decentralizing development : evidence from government splits
Dahis, Ricardo; Szerman, Christiane - 2024
neglected by their parent governments. We provide evidence that decentralizing decision-making power boosts local development in …
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Seeing the broader picture : stakeholder contributions to understanding infrastructure impacts of the Interoceanic Highway in the southwestern Amazon
Perz, Stephen George L.; Mendoza, Elsa R. H.; Pimentel, … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 159 (2022), pp. 1-15
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Weber's law and the biological evolution of risk preferences : the selective dominance of the logarithmic utility function
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2002
The paper offers a proof that expected utility maximisation with logarithmic utility is a dominant preference in the biological selection process in the sense that a population following any other preference for decision-making under risk will, with a probability that approaches certainty,...
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The agricultural origins of time preference
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - 2015
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically that geographical variations in the natural return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on the distribution of time preference...
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International trade and cultural diversity : a model of preference selection
Bala, Vankatesh; Long, Ngo Van - 2004
We consider the evolution of preferences when trade occurs between two countries. We show that if one country is much …
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