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Evaluation of Second National Fadama Development Project in Nigeria: A Rapid Policy Appraisal
Nwachukwu, Ifeanyi N.; Agwu, Nnanna M.; Ezeh, Chima I.; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
production using available Fadama resources in Nigeria and also a follow – up to Fadama 1 that was adjudged successful. Its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260198
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Economic Valuation of a Wetland in West Bengal, India
Mukherjee, Sacchidananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In the Gangetic flood plain of West Bengal, wetlands are used for multiple purposes, and have significant role in the livelihoods of the local people. Over the years, these Multiple Use Systems (MUSs) are getting converted to single use systems due to economic and social pressure from dominant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835941
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The Bilbao effect (Guggenheim Museum Bilbao)
Plaza, Beatriz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
When a decaying industrial city in Spain’s Basque country decided in the 1990s to spend $228.3 million on a modern art museum, critics objected to squandering so much public money on something so irrelevant and exclusive. This year is the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao’s (GMB) tenth anniversary,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616984
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Economic Valuation Of Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs)
Adepoju, Adenike Adebusola; Salau, Adekunle Sheu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The paper reviewed the methods in use for the economic valuation of Non-timber forest products. In the main, three methods are used. They are direct market price, indirect market price and non-market estimates. No method is superior to the other but appropriate method of valuation depends on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617118
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Financial instruments for human development
Chichilnisky, Graciela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
Economics often provides the wrong incentives to those who control the assets, such as people in developing countries where most forests are located and who could potentially benefit most from conservation . There is increasing unease about this situation, and an emerging view is that standard...
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The Use of Economic Valuation in Environmental Policy: Providing Research Support for the Implementation of Eu Water Policy Under Aquastress
Koundouri, Phoebe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This book aims to show that economics in general and non market valuation methods in particular, together with participatory and engineering tools, can facilitate the design and implementation of the different European policies in relation to mitigation of water stress. The results presented in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108628
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The use of economic valuation in environmental policy: providing research support for the implementation of Eu Water Policy Under Aquastress
Koundouri, Phoebe; Remoundou, Kyriaki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This book aims to show that economics in general and non market valuation methods in particular, together with participatory and engineering tools, can facilitate the design and implementation of the different European policies in relation to mitigation of water stress. The results presented in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114537
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Air Quality Degradation: Can Economics Help in Measuring its Welfare Effects? A Review of Economic Valuation Studies
Koundouri, Phoebe; Kougea, Eva - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Air quality affects human’s well being in various ways. Air providing the most important life-support function sustains human health and enables the existence of all ecosystems. Although clean air is considered to be a basic requirement for human health and well-being, economic development and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258498
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How well has the Social Protection Scheme Reduced Vulnerability in Chile?
Bronfman, Javier; Floro, Maria - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper empirically investigates the impact of Chile’s social protection’s monetary subsidies on vulnerability to …. (2002) method to estimate vulnerability. Since access to monetary subsidies is not random, we use the propensity score … protection transfers on vulnerability is examined both for the entire sample and the poor using Average Treatment Effect on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212952
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Measuring Vulnerability to Poverty in Chile Using the National Socio Economic Characterization Panel Survey for 1996, 2001, 2006
Bronfman, Javier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Chile provides an interesting setting to analyze vulnerability to poverty, especially today, after the last poverty … deal of social movement into and out of poverty. Furthermore, this paper advances the knowledge on vulnerability to poverty … in Chile by estimating a vulnerability measurement. The evidence reveals a high level of vulnerability to poverty present …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212954