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"The authors focus on policy interventions for improving irrigation water allocation decisions by including both macro …
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"Ersado looks at the feasibility and potential of instituting small-scale irrigation dams to reduce Ethiopia … implications of irrigation development programs and provides empirical evidence from microdam construction and reforestation …-scale irrigation dams in areas prone to waterborne diseases. While the theoretical analyses imply that the net welfare impacts of …
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Almost 90 percent of Moroccan agriculture is not irrigated, and since most of Morocco's crops depend on adequate rainfall, yields and production vary widely. A drought insurance program based on rainfall index contracts is feasible in parts of Morocco and could significantly benefit its farmers
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"This program evaluation estimates the effects on standardized test scores of graduating from the Fe y Alegria private school system in Venezuela. The authors find an Average Treatment Effect on the order of 0.1 standard deviations (approximately 16 percent of the average score), using a control...
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"Indonesia's "big bang" decentralization in 2001 shifted much of the responsibility for local economic development from central government to district and city governments, which today number more than 450. But the performance of these districts has varied widely. This paper attempts to...
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