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Regulatory Constraints to Agricultural Productivity
Divanbeigi, Raian - 2017
The economic thinking around the role of agriculture for development has evolved since the 1950s. Over the past decades …, the agriculture sector has been rediscovered as a sector with great potential for triggering growth, reducing poverty and … measures of regulatory quality and regulatory efficiency in agriculture. Second, the paper employs cross-section data to test …
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The Effects of Volumetric Pricing Policy on Farmers? Water Management Institutions and Their Water Use : The Case of Water User Organization in an Irrigation System in Hubei, China
Kajisa, Kei - 2017
This article examines the effect of water pricing policies on farmers? water saving behaviors, using original water user group (WUG) data from a reservoir irrigation system in China. The introduction of volumetric water pricing at the group level, to replace area-based pricing, induces...
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Behavioral Economics and Public Sector Reform : An Accidental Experiment and Lessons from Cameroon
Raballand, Gaël - 2017
Starting with the hypothesis that behaviors are the critical (and often overlooked) factor in public sector performance, this paper explores the notion of how behavioral change (and thus institutional change) might be better motivated in the public sector. The basis for this study is "an...
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Making Up People -- the Effect of Identity on Preferences and Performance in a Modernizing Society
Hoff, Karla - 2017
It is typically assumed that being hard-working or clever is a trait of the person, in the sense that it is always there, in a fixed manner. However, in an experiment with almost 600 boys in India, cues to one's place in the traditional caste order turn out to influence the expression of these...
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Do Middle Classes Bring Institutional Reforms?
Loayza, Norman - 2017
The paper examines the link between poverty, the middle class and institutional outcomes using a new cross-country panel dataset on the distribution of income and expenditure. It uses an econometric methodology to gauge whether a larger middle class has a causal effect on policy and...
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Emigration and Democracy
Docquier, Frédéric - 2017
Migration is an important yet neglected determinant of institutions. This paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. The authors find that emigration and human capital...
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How (Not) to Fix Problems that Matter : Assessing and Responding to Malawi's History of Institutional Reform
Bridges, Katherine - 2017
Malawi can be understood as a microcosm of institutional reform approaches in developing countries more broadly. A common feature of such approaches, whether implemented by government or donors, is reform initiatives that yield institutions that "look like" those found in higher-performing...
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Aid Dependence Reconsidered
Azam, Jean-Paul - 2017
When foreign aid undermines institutional development aid recipients can exhibit the symptoms of aid "dependence" - benefiting from aid in the short term but damaged by it in the long term. The authors find that one equilibrium outcome can be high aid and weak institutions, even when donors and...
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Employment Data in Household Surveys : Taking Stock, Looking Ahead
Desiere, Sam - 2020
design issues behind the collection of individual-level employment data in nationally representative household surveys and … Standards Measurement Study, Living Standards Measurement Study?Integrated Surveys on Agriculture, Labor Force Surveys, and …?Integrated Surveys on Agriculture are used to illustrate these issues. The paper concludes by proposing short- and medium-term objectives …
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Shelter from the Storm? Household-Level Impacts of, and Responses to, the 2015 Floods in Malawi
Kilic, Talip - 2020
As extreme weather events intensify due to climate change, it becomes ever more critical to understand how vulnerable households are to these events and the mechanisms households can rely on to minimize losses effectively. This paper analyzes the impacts of the floods that occurred during the...
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