In this study, two types of aid transfers - boats and houses are examined- that were made to rehabilitate tsunami-affected fishery households in Sri Lanka. The goal is to investigate the distributional impacts of these transfers and the effectiveness of targeting. The study also attempts to...

Do we ever wonder how fast our computer actually is? Of course, it says that it is a Pentium at 3.0 Ghz on the box in which the system came but the speed of the CPU is not the only factor in determining how fast our system actually is. The true speed of our computer is determined by the speed of...

Over the last decades, a large number of developed countries have explicitly recognized the importance of benefits generated from agricultural and rural landscape into their legislation. Since the early '90, preservation and enhancing of rural landscape has played an increasing role also into...