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Risk and investment : evidence from rural Viet Nam
Newman, Carol; Tarp, Finn - 2018
between households' perceived exposure to uninsured risk, measured as past exposure to deviations in average rainfall levels … the depletion of assets. We also consider the interaction between past weather-risk exposure and the actual realization of … weather shocks to ascertain the extent to which the investment strategies of risk-exposed households "pay off" by buffering …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913511
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Weather shocks and cropland decisions in rural Mozambique
Salazar-Espinoza, César - In: Food policy : economics planning and politics of food … 53 (2015), pp. 9-21
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379250
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Risk and investment: Evidence from rural Viet Nam
Newman, Carol; Tarp, Finn - 2018
between households' perceived exposure to uninsured risk, measured as past exposure to deviations in average rainfall levels … the depletion of assets. We also consider the interaction between past weather-risk exposure and the actual realization of … weather shocks to ascertain the extent to which the investment strategies of risk-exposed households "pay off" by buffering …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943927
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Climate change and developing country interests : cases from the Zambezi River Basin
Arndt, Channing; Chinowsky, Paul; Fant, Charles; … - 2015
We consider the interplay of climate change impacts, global mitigation policies, and the interests of developing countries to 2050. Focusing on Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, we employ a structural approach to biophysical and economic modeling that incorporates climate uncertainty and allows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390407
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Inequality : measurement, trends, impacts and policies
Addison, Tony; Pirttilä, Jukka; Tarp, Finn - In: The review of income and wealth : journal of the … 63 (2017) 4, pp. 603-607
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011820174
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Aid, social policy, and development
Addison, Tony; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Tarp, Finn - 2015
This paper discusses past and current social policy strategies in the international aid architecture. From the 1990s, aid strategy and policy shifted to put a stronger emphasis on human development. This accelerated with the Millennium Development Goals and will continue under the Sustainable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011312747
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Aid, social policy and development
Addison, Tony; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Tarp, Finn - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 27 (2015) 8, pp. 1351-1365
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400990
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Measuring poverty and wellbeing in developing countries : a study prepared by the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
Arndt, Channing (ed.); Tarp, Finn (ed.) - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2017
Detailed analyses of poverty and wellbeing in developing countries, based on household surveys, have been ongoing for more than three decades. The large majority of developing countries now regularly conduct a variety of household surveys, and their information base with respect to poverty and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594636
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Projektvurdering i u-lande
Tarp, Finn - In: Nationaløkonomisk tidsskrift 130 (1992) 2, pp. 255-263
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Debt Relief for Poor Countries
Addison, Tony (ed.); Hansen, Henrik (ed.); Tarp, Finn (ed.) - 2004
After a massive international campaign calling attention to the development impact of foreign debt, the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative is now underway. But will the HIPC Initiative meet its high expectations? Will debt relief substantially raise growth? How do we make sure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011612270