. Interestingly, this analysis of Jatropha hedges and oil milling schemes in rural Zimbabwe shows that energy crops such as Jatropha …

This paper uses five life histories from three locations in Zimbabwe - one peri-urban, one urban and one rural to … Zimbabwe's recent economic and political turmoil. Together the cases suggest that, similar to Hoddinott's work on the … persistence of the 1993-94 rainfall shock in rural Zimbabwe, above and beyond increased mortality rates and morbidity levels …

In recent decades, Zimbabwe's development record has been disappointing. In the last few years, a severe drought and …

Zimbabwe and other developing countries struggle to achieve millennium development goals originally set for 2015. To … maternal healthcare services use in Zimbabwe. A logistic model for four different maternal healthcare services using data from … the 2005/6 Zimbabwe Demographic Health Survey was estimated. Secondary education increases the odds of use of maternal …

settlement negotiation. The paper points out that this function of LCI is especially important in cases that have a negative …

than to re-allocate risk. Being insured decreases the cost an insured party has to bear if settlement negotiations fail and … value suits, LCI can make the threat to sue credible and motivate potential defendants to make positive settlement offers …

than to re-allocate risk. Being insured decreases the cost an insured party has to bear if settlement negotiations fail and … value suits, LCI can make the threat to sue credible and motivate potential defendants to make positive settlement offers …

, consisting of trading, clearing and settlement. We thereby focus on firms' decisions but also look on the implications of these …

Although an overwhelming proportion of all legal disputes end in settlement, the determinants of the timing of … settlement remain empirically underexplored. We draw on a novel dataset on the duration of commercial disputes in Slovenia to … study how the timing of settlement is shaped by the stages and features of the litigation process. Using competing risk …

-it-or-leave-it settlement offers, we can show that they will actually be exploited by one of their fellow plaintiffs rather than by the … settlement even having complete information. This may explain why we observe derivative suits in the US but not in Europe. …