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On the Origins of Gender Roles : Women and the Plough
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011
This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical gender division of labor and the evolution and...
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Water Availability as a Constraint on China's Future Growth
Medianu, Dana - 2012
Recent writings on China's water situation often portray China's water problems as severe and suggest that water availability could threaten the sustainability of China's future growth. However, China's high growth of the last 20 years or more has been obtained with relatively little increase in...
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Willingness to Pay for Low Water Footprint Food Choices During Drought
Krovetz, Hannah - 2017
In the context of recent California drought years, we investigate empirically whether consumers are willing to pay for more efficient water usage in the production of four California agricultural products. We implement an internet survey choice experiment for avocados, almonds, lettuce, and...
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Long-Term Effects of the Targeting the Ultra Poor Program
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther; Sharma, Garima - 2022
This paper studies the long-run effects of a "big-push" program providing a large asset transfer to the poorest Indian households. In a randomized controlled trial that follows these households over 10 years, we find positive effects on consumption (0.6 SD), food security (0.1 SD), income (0.3...
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The Role of Technological Change in Green Growth
Popp, David - 2014
By reducing the costs of environmental protection, technological change is important for promoting green growth. This entails both the creation of new technologies and more widespread deployment of existing green technologies. This paper reviews the literature on environmentally friendly...
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The Illusion of Sustainability
Kremer, Michael; Miguel, Edward - 2021
The history of foreign development assistance is one of movement away from addressing immediate needs and toward focusing on the underlying causes of poverty. A recent manifestation is the move towards sustainability,' which stresses community mobilization, education, and cost-recovery. This...
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The Baker Hypothesis
Chari, Anusha; Henry; Reyes, Hector - 2022
In 1985, James A. Baker III's “Program for Sustained Growth” proposed a set of economic policy reforms including, inflation stabilization, trade liberalization, greater openness to foreign investment, and privatization, that he believed would lead to faster growth in countries then known as...
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Trade and Environment Beyond Singapore
Whalley, John - 2021
This paper discusses the likely evolution of the trade and environment issue in the World Trade Organization after the upcoming ministerial meeting in Singapore this December. It makes a number of points. Progress within the GATT/WTO on this issue looks likely to be slow and painfully...
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Fiscal Rules in India : Are They Effective?
Buiter, Willem H. - 2010
, considers India's experience with fiscal (responsibility) rules during the past decade. After reviewing the basic facts … concerning public debt and deficits in India, the background and basic arithmetic of the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget …
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China and India as Suppliers of Affordable Medicines to Developing Countries
Hafner, Tamara - 2014
pharmaceutical trade data from 1996 to 2005, we examine the role of China and India as suppliers of medicines to other middle- and … medicines from high- income countries. We find that imports of antibiotics and unspecified medicaments from India and China … significantly depress the average price of these commodities imported from high-income trading partners, suggesting that India and …
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