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Impact of climate change on crops, irrigation and hydropower in the Zambezi River Basin

Fant, Charles; Gebretsadik, Yohannes; Strzepek, Kenneth M. - 2013

method for quantifying the impacts on biophysical measures (surface water supply, crop production, flooding events, and … Africa ; investment risk ; system model ; water resource …

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Land issues in Vietnam 2006 - 14 : markets, property rights, and investment

Markussen, Thomas - 2015

This paper uses five waves of the Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey (VARHS) to analyse land issues in Viet Nam from a number of different angles. The VARHS provides panel data at plot as well as household level and I use this rich data set to present descriptive results on...

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Institutional differences across resource-based economies

Teksoz, Utku; Kalcheva, Katerina - 2016

To predict economic success and failure, academics and policymakers alike are interested in the differences in institutional structures across natural resource-based economies. This paper uses a political economy framework to examine the effect of institutional variables on per capita...

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No taxation without property rights : formalization of property rights on land and tax revenues from individuals in sub-Saharan Africa

Nistotskaya, Marina; D'Arcy, Michelle - 2021

The arguments that property rights and taxation positively affect development are well established in separate literatures, but the link between property rights and taxation is understudied. To address this gap, we theorize that formalization of individual property rights facilitates economic...

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The effects of land titling in Tanzania

Aikaeli, Jehovaness; Markussen, Thomas - 2017

We use household survey data to investigate the effects of formal, private property rights to agricultural land on agricultural investment, land valuation and access to credit in Tanzania. Results show that while there are no detectable effects of formal, private land property rights (written...

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Agribusinesses, smallholder tenure security, and plot-level investments : evidence from rural Tanzania

Sipangule, Kacana - 2017

The last decade has witnessed an increase in the interest in agricultural land in developing countries. While a great deal of attention has been paid to understanding the impacts of this increased interest in agricultural land, very little is known about how local smallholder communities are...

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Institutional change and persistence : what does the long-run evidence tell us?

Savoia, Antonio; Sen, Kunal; Tagem, Abrams Mbu Enow - 2024

There is a broad agreement that political and economic institutions matter for long-term development. Yet relatively little is known as to how to adopt good quality institutions and reform weak or poor institutions, for which one needs to know how institutions change. This paper provides a...

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Modeling impact of climate change on water resources and agriculture demand in the Volta Basin and other basin systems in Ghana

Amisigo, Barnabas A.; McCluskey, Alyssa; Swanson, Richard A. - 2014

An assessment of the impacts of projected climate change on water availability and crop production in the Volta Basin … reference (no change) scenario - two dry and two wet scenarios. The CliRun water balance model was used to simulate catchment … runoffs using projected rainfall and temperature under the scenarios. The water evaluation and planning software was used for …

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Does foreign aid harm political institutions?

Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - 2015

primarily by the positive contribution of more stable inflows of 'governance aid'. We conclude the data do not support the view …

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Taxation, social protection, and governance decentralization

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2016

hierarchical contests and comparing the implications of centralized with decentralized governance. Increasing information available …

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