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This paper explores aid effectiveness by studying the effect of aid, aid volatility, and key development indicators, focusing on safe access to water and sanitation (W&S) in both urban and rural areas. Despite the importance of official development assistance (ODA) for these two subsectors,...
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Um die individuelle Akzeptanz und gesellschaftliche Verbreitung technologischer Neuerungen in Form von Elektrofahrzeugen angemessen einschätzen zu können, muss die Perspektive eines potenziellen Nutzers und seines Entscheidungsverhaltens berücksichtigt werden. In Anbetracht dessen liefert der...
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In most countries, land consolidation was first introduced in rural areas, with legislation suitable for urban areas being drafted at a later date. This is also true of Norway. The first evidence of urban competency in the legislation is found in the Land Consolidation Act from 1950. It is...
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The study of the impact of institutions on entrepreneurship has been a topic of great interest in recent years. Nevertheless, less attention has been paid to the relation that can exist between the spatial context and the entrepreneurial activities. Specifically, institutions and the space of...
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The extent to which commodity price volatility affects the income of producing households and their vulnerability to … article focuses on estimating agricultural income uncertainties for a number of different household types in Ghana, Vietnam … and nonmarket uncertainties significantly affect the variability of agricultural income of households in these countries …
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educationally disadvantaged or risk school dropout. Ghana Demographic and Health Survey (GDHS) data for 2014 with binary and … reveal disparity in wealth distribution in Ghana. Wealth of family is a determinant of child success in education and urban … household children are less likely to be disadvantaged in learning outcomes. Households' access to ICTs enhances child learning …
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Purpose - This paper analyses the extent to which households are deprived (or otherwise) of clean energy sources in … Ghana. Design/methodology/approach - It engages the Ghana Demographic and Health Survey data (GDHS VI). Three different … empirical evidence is based on logit regressions that explain whether households are deprived or not. Findings - The results …
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, limited efforts have been made to examine the households' demand side. Thus, this study contributes to the extant literature … by investigating the demand side of ICT access by households. It also examines the socioeconomic characteristics that … affect the households' access and usage of ICTs, which create a somewhat digital divide between 'ICT have' and 'have not' in …
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insurances, as is largely done in the literature. In contrast to previous research, it is assumed that households' choice for any … demand for savings, loans and insurances by applying a multivariate probit model on household survey data from rural Ghana …. On the one hand, the estimation results confirm the common finding that poorer households are less likely to participate …
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Decreasing number of students in Germany lead to the closures of schools due to lack of utilization. Hence, competition between schools will increase. We use a mixed multinomial logit model in order to identify influencing factors of school choice and to regard realistic substitution patterns...
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