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Breaking the "Fertilizer Poverty" and Food Insecurity Traps in Smallholder Maize Based Farming System in Southern Africa: Experiences and Lessons from Soil Fertility Network/Econom...
Mekuria, Mulugetta; Waddington, Stephen R.; Siziba, Shephard - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2004
Smallholder farmers in southern Africa face acute food insecurity because the productive capacity of their soils has declined. These resource-poor farmers increasingly cannot afford mineral fertilizers Farmers mentioned the lack of fertilizers for their depleted soils as the most important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005500494
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The Problem with Briefs, in Brief
Conaway, Carrie L. - In: Education Finance and Policy 8 (2013) 3, pp. 287-299
Policy briefs written by academics—the kind typically published in Education Finance and Policy—should be a crucial source of information for policy makers. Yet too frequently these briefs fail to garner the consideration they deserve. Their authors are too focused on the potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010835617
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Impact of the 1999 Earthquakes on the Outcome of the 2002 Parliamentary Election in Turkey
Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
parliamentary election is investigated, using cross-provincial data, and controlling for other social, political and economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822154
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The Discipline-Enhancing Role of Fiscal Institutions; Theory and Empirical Evidence
Debrun, Xavier; Kumar, Manmohan S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
This paper discusses the role of fiscal institutions, including budget rules and non-partisan agencies, in enhancing fiscal discipline. A dynamic model of fiscal policy shows that optimal institutions lack credibility unless the costs to bypass them are sufficiently high. In our model, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825631
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Rethinking the Governance of the International Monetary Fund
Mirakhor, Abbas; Zaidi, Iqbal Mehdi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This paper attempts to set out the principal issues that need to be resolved in formulating a proposal for quotas and voice reform in the IMF that could command broad support. Following John Rawls, we argue that "justice is the first virtue of social institutions," and we use his theory of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825790
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Political Budget Cycles in Papua New Guinea
Faal, Ebrima - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
series data, a clear pattern emerges of pre-election manipulations of fiscal policy by incumbent governments, mainly in the … form of increased development spending and overall primary expenditure, followed in some cases by retrenchment in post-election … noteworthy that revenue was not statistically significantly related to elections, either in the pre- or post-election period. In …
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Political Price Cycles in Regulated Industries; Theory and Evidence
Paiva, Claudio; Moita, Rodrigo - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
election. The paper also provides empirical support for the theoretical model. Using quarterly data from 32 industrial and …
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Papua New Guinea; Selected Issues Paper and Statistical Appendix
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
the data set and the empirical methods used to test for the presence of election-influenced spending, and presents the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245020
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Elections in India
Mukhopadhyay, Bappaditya - In: Review of Market Integration 6 (2014) 1, pp. 8-46
The two major concerns in Indian electoral system are enormous spending and increased criminalisation of politics. While roughly one-third of all elected offices (state or national) have members with some criminal charges, the spending in 2009 general elections exceeded the total spends in the...
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Three-party competition in parliamentary democracy with proportional representation
Cho, Seok-ju - In: Public Choice 161 (2014) 3, pp. 407-426
participate in a proportional representation election, and three farsighted parties bargain over one-dimensional policy programs … any election; (2) election results converge over time to a stable vote distribution; (3) policy outcomes change over time …
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