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Impact of social safeguarding on private land ownership and individual well-being: The case of Sri Lanka

Jayasooriya, S. P. - 2019

Infrastructure development with properly planned safeguard measures is essential from the sustainable development … the paper is to provide pragmatic evidence on sustainable infrastructure development strategies in terms of social … sustainability of the affected persons' livelihood and living standards. Qualitatively, the lessons learned through the impact …

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Sharing the costs of complex water projects: Application to the West Delta water conservation and irrigation rehabilitation project, Egypt

Moretti, Stefano; Patrone, Fioravante; Dinar, Ariel; … - In: Games 7 (2016) 3, pp. 1-23

sustainability of the project. Projects that are heterogeneous both in terms of the landscape of the area under development or the …

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Limits to substitution between ecosystem services and manufactured goods and implications for social discounting

Drupp, Moritz A. - 2016

This paper examines implications of limits to substitution for estimating substitutability between ecosystem services and manufactured goods and for social discounting. Based on a model that accounts for a subsistence requirement in the consumption of ecosystem services, we provide empirical...

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Combining rights and welfarism: A new approach to intertemporal evaluation of social alternatives

Long, Ngo Van; Martinet, Vincent - 2012

We propose a new criterion which reflects both the concern for welfare (utility) and the concern for rights in the evaluation of economic development paths. The concern for rights is captured by a pre-ordering over combinations of thresholds (floors or ceilings on various quantitative...

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Private Capital, Public Goods: Forest Plantations' Investment in Local Infrastructure and Social Services in Rural Tanzania

Degnet, Mohammed B.; van der Werf, Edwin; Ingram, Verina; … - 2017

by NGOs and researchers alike. This study investigates the impacts of private forest plantations on local infrastructure … regression model with observations of the size and quality of infrastructure and social services in the villages and with … infrastructure and social services in adjacent villages. The results suggest that large-scale private forest plantations can …

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Towards sustainable, productive and profitable agriculture: Case of rice and sugarcane

Gulati, Ashok; Mohan, Gayathri - 2018

Indian agriculture is estimated to be consuming about 78 percent of total fresh water resources available in the country. Yet, more than half of the gross cropped area is still dependent on rains. Extremely skewed allocation of scarce irrigation water amongst crops and inefficient use of the...

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Effects of adult education vouchers on the labor market: Evidence from a randomized field experiment

Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; … - 2011

Lifelong learning is often promoted in ageing societies, but little is known about its returns or governments' ability to advance it. This paper evaluates the effects of a large-scale randomized field experiment issuing vouchers for adult education in Switzerland. We find no significant average...

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Effects of adult education vouchers on the labor market: Evidence from a randomized field experiment

Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; … - 2011

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Building in an evaluation component for active labor market programs: A practitioner's guide

Card, David; Ibarrarán, Pablo; Villa, Juan Miguel - 2011

The guide outlines the main evaluation challenges associated with ALMP s, and shows how to obtain rigorous impact estimates using two leading evaluation approaches. The most credible and straightforward evaluation method is a randomized design, in which a group of potential participants is...

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Workers' behavior after safety regulations: Impact evaluation of the Spanish Occupational Safety and Health Act

Delgado-Cubillo, Pablo; Martín Román, Ángel L. - 2023

While the 1995 Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH) regulation transformed the outlook on workplaces in Spain, characterized by a lack of preventive protection, public statistics have reported an increasing trend in the postregulation workplace accident rates. This study uses microdata from...

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