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Seeing is Believing? Evidence from an Extension Network Experiment

Kondylis, Florence - 2017

Extension is designed to enable lab-to-farm technology diffusion. Decentralized models assume that information flows from researchers to extension workers,and from extension agents to contact farmers (CFs). CFs should then train other farmers in their communities. Such a modality may fail to...

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Reducing Distortions in International Commodity Markets : An Agenda for Multilateral Cooperation

Hoekman, Bernard - 2017

as a result affect world prices for the specific products concerned. Market failures and market structures (market power … along the value chain) also affect supply. This paper briefly reviews a number of factors that may distort international … absence of policy -- generate international spillovers that call for the negotiation of international policy disciplines …

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Mutual Fund Investment in Emerging Markets - an Overview

Kaminsky, Graciela - 2017

International mutual funds are one of the main channels for capital flows to emerging economies. Although mutual funds … strategies. The authors provide an overview of mutual fund activity in emerging markets. First, they describe international … than domestic U.S. funds and world funds. When investigating abroad, U.S. mutual funds invest more in equity than in bonds …

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Industrial Policies vs Public Goods Under Asymmetric Information

Hevia, Constantino - 2017

This paper presents an analytical framework that captures the informational problems and trade-offs that policy makers face when choosing between public goods (for example, infrastructure) and industrial policies (for example, firm- or sector-specific subsidies). After a discussion of the...

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Demand and Supply Curves in Political Markets : Understanding the Problem of Public Goods and Why Governments Fail Them

Khemani, Stuti - 2017

This paper brings the economic tools of demand and supply curves to better understand how political markets shape the selection of government policies. It does so to tackle a problem at the intersection of political science and economics: government failure to pursue policies on the basis of...

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Are Public Libraries Improving Quality of Education? When the Provision of Public Goods is Not Enough

Rodríguez-Lesmes, Paul Andrés - 2017

This paper analyzes the relation between public, education-related infrastructure and the quality of education in schools. The analysis uses a case study of the establishment of two large, high-quality public libraries in low-income areas in Bogot?, Colombia. It assesses the impact of these...

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The National Solidarity Program : Assessing the Effects of Community-Driven Development in Afghanistan

Beath, Andrew - 2017

Over the past two decades, community-based approaches to project delivery have become a popular means for governments and development agencies to improve the alignment of projects with the needs of rural communities and increase the participation of villagers in project design and...

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Public Good Provision in Indian Rural Areas : The Returns to Collective Action by Microfinance Groups

Casini, Paolo - 2017

Self-help groups (SHGs) are the most common form of microfinance in India. The authors provide evidence that SHGs, composed of women only, undertake collective actions for the provision of public goods within village communities. Using a theoretical model, this paper shows that an elected...

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When Elites Meet : Decentralization, Power-Sharing, and Public Goods Provision in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone

Clayton, Amanda - 2017

Over the past decade, decentralization of fiscal and policy-making authority has become a cornerstone of development organizations? recommendations for good governance. Yet the institutional design of multilayered government can create tensions as new elites attempt to fill governing spaces long...

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A Dynamic Spatial Model of Rural-Urban Transformation with Public Goods

Biller, Dan - 2017

This paper develops a dynamic model that explains the pattern of population and production allocation in an economy with an urban location and a rural one. Agglomeration economies make urban dwellers benefit from a larger population living in the city and urban firms become more productive when...

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