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This paper presents a synthetic review of impact evaluations examining effectiveness of water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions in reducing diarrhoea among children. The evaluations were conducted in 35 low- and middle-income countries during the past three decades. The paper challenges the...
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The most-noted studies on the impact of microcredit on households are based on a survey fielded in Bangladesh in the … quasi-experimental design to 1991–92 data; they conclude that microcredit raises household consumption, especially when lent … microcredit helps the extremely poor even more than the moderately poor. But using simpler estimators than PK, Morduch (1999 …
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microcredit, and financing community development and infrastructure. Applying propensity-score matching using household survey …, for the six programmes considered here: education, health, potable water, sanitation, roads, and microcredit. SFD road … less evident for programmes in education and sanitation. SFD support for microcredit is strongly pro-poor; the other …
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It is a widely spread belief that crypto-currencies implementing a proof of stake transaction validation system are less vulnerable to a 51% attack than crypto-currencies implementing a proof of work transaction validation system. In this article, we show that it is not the case and that, in...
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The main objective of this manuscript is to provide a formal methodology, structure, and nomenclature for EROI analysis that is both consistent, so that all EROI numbers across various processes can be compared, and also flexible, so that changes or additions to the universal formula can focus...
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large network uses a routing protocol to route packets between users. Routing protocols can induce instability in the … case of bandwidth limited links, routing protocols can experience problems. If the routing protocol's packets exceed the …
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purpose in this research was to elaborate a protocol for the appreciative supervision meeting as well as creating the … measure the quality of life of beneficiaries of social work to test the impact of the intervention that is the protocol for …
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The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the subject to a particularly important Protocol: Kyoto … Protocol from 1997 entered into force on 15 February 2005. It aims to limit emissions of six greenhouse gases. In short, the … Kyoto Protocol commits industrialized countries to stabilize greenhouse gas emissions based on the principles of the …
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It is a widely spread belief that crypto-currencies implementing a proof of stake transaction validation system are less vulnerable to a 51% attack than crypto-currencies implementing a proof of work transaction validation system. In this article, we show that it is not the case and that, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899420
This paper presents a communication protocol to reach consensus. In our setting, every player has asymmetric … information and evaluates a fixed event on his information. According to the protocol, the sender sends non-partitional messages …
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