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Can mistargeting destroy social capital and stimulate crime? : evidence from a cash transfer program in Indonesia

Cameron, Lisa Ann; Shah, Manisha - 2012

Cash transfer programs can provide important financial support for poor households in developing countries and are becoming increasingly common. However the potential for mistargeting of program funds is high. This paper focuses on the social consequences arising from misallocation of resources...

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Is women's ownership of land a panacea in developing countries? : evidence from land-owning farm households in Malawi

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N. - 2014

Our analysis of a rich representative household survey for Malawi, where patrilineal and matrilineal institutions coexist, suggests that (a) in matrilineal societies the likelihood of cash crop cultivation by a household increases with the extent of land owned (or de facto controlled) by males,...

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Food for fuel : the effect of the US biofuel mandate on poverty in India

Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Hélène; Ural … - 2018

More than 40% of US grain is used for energy due to the Renewable Fuels Mandate (RFS). There are no studies of the global distributional consequences of this purely domestic policy. Using micro-level survey data, we trace the effect of the RFS on world food prices and their impact on household...

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Modernizing smallholder agriculture and achieving food security : an exploration in machinery services and labor reallocation in China

Zou, Baoling; Mishra, Ashok K. - 2024

Worldwide, most farms are small and family-operated. This study discusses the future of smallholder agriculture in China, where most farms are small, and farms' parcels are fragmented. The study puts forward a framework of vertical division of labor and specialized production in agriculture. We...

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Evaluating the impacts of minigrid electrification in sub-Saharan Africa

Ayhan, Sinem H.; Falchetta, Giacomo; Steckel, Jan Christoph - 2022

A large share of the population of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) lacks access to modern energy services. To bridge the electricity access gap, distributed power generation systems such as minigrids and stand-alone photovoltaic systems emerge as attractive options in the power supply solution space....

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Literacy traps : society-wide education and individual skill premia

Atal, Vidya; Basu, Kaushik; Gray, John; Lee, Travis - 2009

Using a model of O-ring production function, the paper demonstrates how certain communities can get caught in a low-literacy trap in which each individual finds it not worthwhile investing in higher skills because others are not high-skilled. The model sheds light on educational policy. It is...

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Community entrepreneurship in deprived neighbourhoods : comparing UK community enterprises with US community development corporations

Varady, David P.; Kleinhans, Reinout; Ham, Maarten van - 2015

Through a review of the recent American community development literature, this paper tests the assertion that British … community enterprises (CEs) are fundamentally similar to American community development corporations (CDCs), and therefore, that … CEs can learn from CDCs. In the context of the current austerity regimes, CEs and community entrepreneurship are …

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Strategies to productively reincorporate the formerly-incarcerated into communities : a review of the literature

Doleac, Jennifer L. - 2018

Two-thirds of those released from prison in the United States will be re-arrested within three years, creating an incarceration cycle that is detrimental to individuals, families, and communities. There is tremendous public interest in ending this cycle, and public policies can help or hinder...

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Community influence as an explanatory factor why Roma children get little schooling

Stark, Oded; Berlinschi, Ruxanda - 2020

. The analysis reveals a strong negative correlation between the influence of the Roma community on an individual member … education of Roma children need to reckon with the influence of Roma community norms on individual choices. …

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Social capital and the uncertainty reduction of self-employment

Blumberg, Boris; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2001

We study the self-employed decision and its relation to human and social capital. Human capital is necessary to acquire skills. Social capital dampens the effects of uncertainty about future income. Our data set consists of 1339 respondents from the same age group, who were interviewed three...

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