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health, ecosystems, and the environment, and their interrelationships through water, within the context of the fundamental … significant policy implications for water management. Because water prices can have an impact on global trade and, more …
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IWRM has emerged as a popular ideology in the water sector since the 20th century. From a highly techno-centric approach in the past, it has taken a new turn worldwide, following a Habermasian communicative rationality, as a place-based nexus for multiple actors to consensually and...
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Protected areas represent a powerful policy tool for the preservation of ecosystems and their services. The rapid … poverty. Using rich biophysical and socioeconomic data from Bolivia we find that municipalities with at least 10% of their … area occupied by a protected area established between 1992 and 2000 exhibited differentially greater levels of poverty …
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authority of the elites and worsening poverty by implementing 'anti-poor' policies. This paper concludes that the success of …
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The study of the impact of public investment on poverty is currently of particular importance due to, among other … results to impute income in the MECOVI 2007 survey. In this way, we calculate various measures of poverty and indigence, and … poverty and indigence in Bolivia, however this effect is small. The most important results are evident in the headcount index …
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Governments play a major role in the development process, and constantly introduce reforms and policies to achieve developmental objectives. Many of these interventions have limited impact, however; schools get built but children don't learn, IT systems are introduced but not used, plans are...
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We report a small-sample, preliminary evaluation of the economic impact of temporary overseas work by Haitian agricultural workers. This work occurs in the United States in the context of a pilot program designed as a form of post-disaster development assistance to Haiti. We find that the...
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avoid poverty. A new role is emerging for income support: by enabling people to effectively stay home, it can produce … substantial health externalities. We examine this issue using data on human mobility and poverty rates in 729 subnational regions … changes between higher- and lower-poverty regions. Conditional on country-day fixed effects, shelter-in-place orders decrease …
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increasing gap of living standards between the poor and the rich, has provided a strong motivation for development policy to … change this situation. From its beginning, policy has aimed for stimulating economic growth in order to improve living … conditions for everyone. The endurance of poverty, however, has motivated to extend the traditional 'growth is good for the poor …
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This study is concerned with the measurement of poverty in the context of developing countries. We argue that poverty … literature on this topic, our methodology introduces a critical but missing analytical distinction between time poverty and time …
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