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Smallholder farmers in southern Africa face acute food insecurity because the productive capacity of their soils has declined. These resource-poor farmers increasingly cannot afford mineral fertilizers Farmers mentioned the lack of fertilizers for their depleted soils as the most important...
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candidate to win an election, even though his main agenda item (i.e., postal privatization) is strongly opposed by special …
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situations through the proxy analysis of election and the sovereign bond spreads. Our study leads to three main findings. First … over the possibility of government policies or instability brought by the election. During a crisis, however, investors …, results show that the election induced peak shrinks from 3 months before and after the election date to 1-2 months when the …
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Apparently judges’ decisions are not motivated by maximizing their own profit. The literature uses two strategies to explain this observation: judges care about the long-term monetary consequences for themselves, or individuals who are more strongly motivated by the common good self-select...
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An important question in representative democracies is how to ensure that politicians behave in the best interest of citizens rather than their own private interests. Aside from elections, one of the few institutional devices available to regulate the actions of politicians is their pay...
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