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Aligning Climate Change Mitigation and Agricultural Policies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Larson, Donald F.; Dinar, Ariel; Blankespoor, Brian - 2012

policy instruments needed to tap mitigation opportunities in agriculture is incomplete. In particular, market … mitigation incentives, and missed mitigation opportunities in agriculture. The paper concludes with a discussion of alternative … policies designed to jointly promote mitigation and co-benefits for agriculture and the environment. …

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Evaluation in the Practice of Development

Ravallion, Martin - 2012

Knowledge about development effectiveness is constrained by two factors. First, the project staff in governments and international agencies who decide how much to invest in research on specific interventions are often not well informed about the returns to rigorous evaluation and (even when they...

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Fiscal Policy, Public Expenditure Composition, and Growth : Theory and Empirics

Semmler, Willi; Greiner, Alfred; Diallo, Bobo - 2012

This paper responds to the development policy debate involving the World Bank and the IMF on the use of fiscal policy not only for economic stabilization but also to promote economic growth and increase per capita income. A key issue in this debate relates to the effect of the composition of...

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International Cooperation and the Reform of Public Procurement Policies

Evenett, Simon J.; Hoekman, Bernard M. - 2012

The decision not to launch negotiations in the World Trade Organization (WTO) on three of the Singapore Issues in the so-called July 2004 package provides an opportunity to revisit the knowledge base on which proposals for further international collective action may be drawn. This paper examines...

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MDGs That Nudge : The Millennium Development Goals, Popular Mobilization, and the Post-2015 Development Framework

Gauri, Varun - 2013

The Millennium Development Goals, which expire in 2015, were a global agreement to promote human development and reduce poverty. But they did not create a legalized institutional regime, in which precise obligations would be delegated to specific actors, nor were they, in many respects,...

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Decentralized Beneficiary Targeting in Large-Scale Development Programs : Insights from the Malawi Farm Input Subsidy Program

Kilic, Talip; Whitney, Edward; Winters, Paul - 2014

This paper contributes to the long-standing debate on the merits of decentralized beneficiary targeting in the administration of development programs, focusing on the large-scale Malawi Farm Input Subsidy Program. Nationally-representative household survey data are used to systematically analyze...

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Escaping the Capability Trap : Turning "Small" Development into "Big" Development

Campos, J. Edgardo; Randrianarivelo, Benjamina; Winning, Kay - 2014

The international development community has been grappling with the challenges of implementing development programs and, consequently, with the design of practical approaches to attaining program objectives. This paper contributes to the emerging discussion on addressing the implementation...

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The World Bank and Governance : The Bank???s Efforts to Help Developing Countries Build State Capacity

de Janvry, Alain; Dethier, Jean-Jacques - 2013

This paper examines historically the World Bank's twin features: lending to developing economies to achieve tangible results and advocating specific development policies. Section 1 provides some conceptual underpinnings for the view that an effective state is essential for development. It asks...

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Reducing Distortions to Agricultural Incentives : Progress, Pitfalls and Prospects

Anderson, Kym - 2012

also suggest that full global liberalization of merchandise trade would raise value added in agriculture in developing …

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Do Global Trade Distortions Still Harm Developing Country Farmers?

Anderson, Kym; Valenzuela, Ernesto - 2012

The authors estimate the impact of global merchandise trade distortions and services regulations on agricultural value added in various countries. Using the latest versions of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) database and the GTAP-AGR model of the global economy, their results suggest...

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