African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). Madagascar is different to the other main SSA low-income country (LIC) apparel … instability that led to the loss of AGOA status at the end of 2009. This paper assesses the development of Madagascar's export … industry. The paper concludes that, despite the contraction in the exportoriented apparel industry post-AGOA, Madagascar is …

major cyclone (Gafilo) hit Madagascar in March 2004. Relief was provided by the Government of Madagascar as well as local …

: Albania, Indonesia, Madagascar and Nepal. Simple descriptive statistics, correlation coefficients, contingency tables and …

's general poverty risk, or in other words its vulnerability to poverty. Although several measurements to analyze vulnerability … context as it relies on commonly available living standard measurement surveys. We apply our approach to data from Madagascar …

(Australian Alliancing Contract) findet die terminliche Komponente Eingang in die gemeinsamen Entscheidungen des Projekt-Teams bei … of a building usually takes several years. At the time of signing the contract, it is often not yet clear what exactly … securing claims, rather than seeking solutions. By looking across national borders at other successful contract models, this …

increases in risk taking. Where we can separately identify changes in risk-independent performance and risk taking, our … increases in risk taking. These effects are concentrated among those closest to the margin of elimination and among lower …

This paper studies how the risk of divorce affects the human capital decisions of a young couple. We consider a setting … where complete specialization (one of the spouses uses up all the education resources) is optimal with no divorce risk … symmetric allocation will become more attractive as the probability of divorce increases, if risk aversion is high and/or labor …