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This paper provides new evidence on how effectively piped water consumption subsidies are targeting poor households in … goal of improving the accessibility and affordability of piped water for poor households. Instead, the majority of … segments typically face challenges in accessing and connecting to piped water services. The paper also reveals shortcomings in …
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Women make essential contributions to agriculture in developing countries, where they constitute approximately 43 percent of the agricultural labor force. However, female farmers typically have lower output per unit of land and are much less likely to be active in commercial farming than their...
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Many experts believe that low-cost mitigation opportunities in agriculture are abundant and comparable in scale to those found in the energy sector. They are mostly located in developing countries and have to do with how land is used. By investing in projects under the Clean Development...
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This paper develops a multi-sector, small open economy Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium model, which includes the accumulation of human capital, built via public expenditures in education and health. Four possible fiscal rules are examined for total public investment in infrastructure,...
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Estimates of total factor productivity growth, a measure of increases in the efficiency of production, have traditionally been based on a two-factor model of labor and fixed capital. Because profits are measured residually in the System of National Accounts, they implicitly include rents on...
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of household consumption of all animal-source foods; the socioeconomic determinants of fish consumption, given its … the level of animal-source food intake, but they decrease the consumption share of fish. This suggests that increased … than fish for child health. In addition, mothers' individual preferences for different animal-source foods, and the …
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urban areas is having a significant impact on the quantity and quality of water available as inputs into the production and … consumption process, as well as the ability of the water system to absorb and neutralize the waste byproducts deposited into it …. Water shortages are most severe in the north of the country, where surface water diversion is excessive and groundwater is …
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Rwanda's completion, in 2012/13, of a land tenure regularization program covering the entire country allows the use of administrative data to describe initial performance and combine the data with household surveys to quantify to what extent and why subsequent transfers remain informal, and how...
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This paper disentangles different aspects of land fragmentation and its impact on the efficiency of resource use. The paper uses information on the incidence of crop shocks to assess whether fragmentation provides benefits in reducing risk and parcel coordinates and terrain-adjusted travel times...
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The potentially-adverse impact of salinity on paved roads is well-established in the engineering literature. The problem seems destined to grow, as climate-related changes in sea level and riverine flows drive future increases in groundwater salinity. However, data scarcity has prevented...
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