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Climate change and the increasing demand of water intensify the global water cycle, altering the distribution of water …). As water is key to life, water scarcity is likely to provoke conflict. Using grid-cell data for Africa and central … water mass declines. We measure water mass anomalies based on changes in Earth's gravity field recorded by GRACE and link …
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that more educated women complied more with the program's water disinfection training, highlighting that even simple, low …-cost technologies require final users' compliance ("the last mile") to be effective. In the context of growing water scarcity …
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We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South … the tariff.Households in high income/high education neighbourhoods display a higher responsiveness to potential savings …
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We use the nation-wide policy of randomly allocating village council headships to women to identify the impact of female political leadership on the governance of projects implemented under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India. Using primary survey data, we find more program...
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This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 we show that pre-accession incentives provided by EU and...
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Citizens in low income democracies depend, to a large extent, on the state for the provision of basic services either due to absence of a market for these services or poverty. This paper synthesizes the findings of the International Growth Centre (IGC) supported research on governance and public...
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Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort into having an effect. A department may come into conflict with other departments because of...
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During the 1930s and 1940s, collective bargaining emerged as the workplace governance norm in much of the U.S. industrial sector. Following its peak in the 1950s, union density in the U.S. private sector fell steadily, to only 7.4 percent in 2006. Governance shifted from a formalized union norm...
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Advocates of fiscal decentralization argue that amongst other benefits, it can increase the efficiency of delivery of government services. This paper is one of the first to evaluate this claim empirically by looking at the association between expenditure decentralization and the productive...
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Thermal-based power stations rely on water for cooling purposes. These water sources may be subject to incidents of … scarcity, environmental regulations and competing economic concerns. This paper analyses the effect of water scarcity and … of river water. An implication is that future climate change will affect electricity prices not only through changes in …
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