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Examining Private Participation in Embankment Maintenance in the Indian Sundarbans
Sarkhel, Prasenjit - eSocialSciences - 2013
This paper analyses the complementarities between land productivity and conservation investments in the context of river embankment maintenance in the Indian Sundarbans.[SANDEE]. URL:[http://www.sandeeonline.org/uploads/documents/publication/996_PUB_Working_Paper_75_Prasenjit_Sarkhel.pdf].
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Cost and Time Overruns in Infrastructure Projects: Extent, Causes and Remedies
Singh, Ram - eSocialSciences - 2009
Various issues related to delays and cost overruns in publically funded infrastructure projects are investigated. The study is based on, by far, the largest data-set of 850 projects across seventeen infrastructure sectors. The focus is on the causal factors behind time and cost overruns. [CDE WP...
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Identifying Systemically Important Financial Institutions (SIFIs)
Weistroffer, Christian - eSocialSciences - 2011
In this study the analytical framework for identifying and benchmarking systemically important financial institutions is discussed. First, the main concepts underlying the SIFI definition are laid out. Next, the methodologies used for measuring systemic importance in academia and for policy...
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Quantifying Spatial Mislocation in Centrally Provided Public Goods
Somanathan, Rohini; Athreya, Siva - eSocialSciences - 2010
to the allocation of post-offices in an administrative block of South India between1981-1991and find that more appropriate …
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How Much Does Natural Resource Extraction Really Diminish National Wealth? The Implications of Discovery
Gelb, Alan; Kaiser, Kai; Viñuela, Lorena - eSocialSciences - 2012
The paper considers the process of discovery for subsoil resources, including both hard minerals and hydrocarbons and estimates its magnitude in recent years, as derived from the sum of extraction and changes in proven reserves. Spurred on by technology change and strong market conditions,...
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Incorporating Public Good Availability into the Measurement of Poverty
Kjelsrud, Anders; Somanathan, Rohini - eSocialSciences - 2014
This paper makes an attempt to incorporate benets from unpaid public services into consumption decisions to arrive at more accurate measures of poverty and inequality. The analysis is based on primary data collected from 40 villages in Bihar in 2012. Three types of public services are...
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Do Local Elections in Non-Democracies Increase Accountability? Evidence from Rural China
Yao, Yang; Qia, Nancy; Bravo, Monica Martinez; Miquel, … - eSocialSciences - 2011
Unique survey data is used to study whether the introduction of local elections in China made local leaders more accountable towards local constituents. A simple model is developed to predict the effects on different policies of increasing local leader accountability, taking into account that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002244
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Find Me the Money: Financing Climate and Other Global Public Goods
Birdsall, Nancy; Leo, Benjamin - eSocialSciences - 2011
In this paper, four categories of existing resource-mobilization options are examined, including (1) transportation levies; (2) currency and financial transaction taxes; (3) capitalization of IMF Special Drawing Rights (SDRs); and (4) the sale, mobilization, or capitalization of IMF gold....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002305
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How Can Bill and Melinda Gates Increase Other People’s Donations to Fund Public Goods?
Karlan, Dean; List, John A - eSocialSciences - 2012
field experiments were conducted. In the first experiment, a charity focusing on poverty reduction solicited donations from …. In the second field experiment, the same charity sent direct mail solicitations to individuals who had not previously … effective than not identifying the name of the matching donor. The first experiment demonstrates that the matching grant …
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Union Budget 2014: Budgetary Resources for Public Goods
Salve, Aarti - eSocialSciences - 2014
India’s health policy has focused on primary health centers and hospitals. The numbers of hospital beds, doctors, and nurses per 1000 persons have often been treated less as inputs and more as measures of success of the health policy. Health outcomes such as a reduction in cases of...
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