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Financial incentives are a promising HIV prevention strategy. This paper assesses the effect on HIV incidence of a …. Lottery incentives appear to be particularly effective for individuals willing to take risks. This paper estimates a model …
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due to investment incentives offered by other countries in the same geographic region …
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This paper presents a somewhat novel approach to explore the economic contribution of ecosystems. It develops linked models to capture connections between resource stocks and flows and the resulting microeconomic and macroeconomic impacts. A bioeconomic model is developed that is imbedded into a...
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promoted. Co-benefits are defined as positive externalities that arise deliberately as a result of a joint strategy that …, and, with a price signal missing, there is lack of clear incentives for investing in disaster risk management. Overall …
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It is widely accepted that the costs of underpricing energy are large, whether in advanced or developing countries. This paper explores how large these costs can be by focussing on the size of the external effects that energy subsidies in particular generate in two important sectors?transport...
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outcomes. The paper argues that the development marketplace is beset by market imperfections because of externalities …, but also take away incentives to learn about outcomes. A fundamental rethink of responsibilities and accountabilities in … describes the role of the evaluation function in aligning incentives with the ultimate goal of improving lives and provides …
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-mile tolls could target congestion and accident externalities more efficiently than fuel taxes, although they are not practical … externalities (versus $0.22 without fuel taxes) would be most efficient. Current public bus and rail subsidies are relatively close … to efficient levels in the absence of such policies; however, if automobile and microbus externalities were fully …
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Does an unregulated financial system absorb too many productive inputs? This paper studies this question in the context of a dynamic model with heterogeneous producers. In the absence of a financial system, the only way to purchase inputs is using internal funds. Producers are subject to...
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This paper studies the growth effects of externalities associated with intergenerational health transmission, health …
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incentives: receiving the religious message increases repayments by more than offering a cash rebate equivalent to 50 percent of …
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