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Regulation, governance and informality: an empirical analysis of selected countries
Roychowdhury, Punarjit; Dutta, Mousumi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
primary cause that impedes the process of formalization. However whether flexible regulations can encourage formalization by … making gains of formalization more accessible and certain remains a question. In this paper we argue that flexible … regulations does not necessarily manifest into the incentives that are essential for formalization. Reducing rigidities in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323213
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Imachi Nkwu: Trade and the commons
Fenske, James - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The conventional view is that an increase in the value of a natural resource will lead private property to emerge. Many Igbo groups in Nigeria, however, curtailed private rights over palm trees in response to the palm produce trade of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I present a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493279
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Gender Discrimination and Common Property Resources: a Model
Casari, Marco; Lisciandra, Maurizio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
depend on inheritance rules on the commons. Motivated by the traditional management of the commons in the Italian Alps, we … present a model that fits the evolution of property rights observed over six centuries. Women’s rights over the commons were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109076
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Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross-Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Indicators
Knack, Stephen; Keefer, Philip - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1995
This paper compares more direct measures of the institutional environment with both the instability proxies used by Barro (1991) and the Gastil indices, by comparing their effects both on growth and private investment. The results provide substantial support for the position that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530718
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Contract Intensive Money
Clague, Christopher; Keefer, Philip; Knack, Stephen; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
This paper makes two contributions to the literature. First, it introduces a new, easily accessed and objective measure of the enforceability of contracts and the security of property rights. Second, it uses this measure to provide additional and more direct evidence about the importance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685502
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The Relationship between Common Management and Ecotourism Development: Tragedy or Triumph of the Commons? A Law and Economics Answer
Samà, Danilo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Since its origin, ecotourism development has been at the centre of controversial and heated debates within the environmental and scientific society. On one hand, it has been considered as a model of responsible and sustainable tourism with the capacity to guarantee the conservation of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839481
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"You Quit?" Influence of Neighbor Experience and Exit on Small Farmer Market Participation
Michelson, Hope - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This research analyzes the relationship between a farmers' participation in Nicaraguan supermarket supply chains and the market entries and exit of neighboring farmers. Drawing on insights from the technology adoption literature on learning and experimentation, we incorporate measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011183536
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Small farmers, NGOs, and a Walmart World: Welfare effects of supermarkets operating in Nicaragua
Michelson, Hope C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
geographic placement of supermarket supply chains in Nicaragua between 2000 and 2008 and uses a difference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110038
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Property Rights on Biodiversity and the Pharmaceutical Industry
Chichilnisky, Graciela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993
Major pharmaceutical companies such as Smith Kline Beecham, Merck, Glaxo and Lilly, and a score of smaller ones, are developing profitable business opportunities in the world's forest while preserving biodiversity and producing incentives for leaving the forests intact. This case study covers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621738
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Good governance in microcredit strategy for poverty reduction: focus on western Mindanao, Philippines
Moreno, Frede - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
The study argues for the integration of good governance principles in developing financially viable, effective and … outcomes. On the whole, the application of good governance will improve program design and will make the implementation … integration of good governance into microcredit intends to improve its program design, implementation strategies and processes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401358