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Biodiversity conservation through private initiative : the case of Earth Sanctuaries Ltd
Grolleau, Gilles; Peterson, Deborah C. - In: European journal of law and economics 40 (2015) 2, pp. 293-312
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Which institutions encourage entrepreneurs to create larger firms?
Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2011
We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across individuals and institutional contexts. Our framework generates hypotheses about the negative impact of higher levels of corruption, weaker property rights and especially...
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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurial Growth Aspirations?
Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewics, Tomasz - 2012
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Carbon sequestration in forests and soils
Sedjo, Roger A.; Sohngen, Brent - In: Annual review of resource economics 4 (2012), pp. 127-144
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Carbon Sequestration in Forests and Soils
Sedjo, Roger A. - 2015
greenhouse gas; through biological growth, which can increase forest stocks; or through deforestation, which can increase carbon … emissions. Carbon is captured not only in tree biomass but also in forest soils. Forest management and public policy can … strongly influence the sequestration process. Economic policies can provide incentives for both forest expansion and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013036466
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Decentralization and natural disasters
Goodspeed, Timothy J. - 2013
level of government. The next section discusses the empirical results that have been found in the literature. A third …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009724002
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What Drives Microfinance Institution's Financial Sustainability
Ayayi, Ayi Gavriel - 2011
Microfinance promises to trim down poverty. To achieve this noble objective microfinance institutions (MFIs) have to become steady profitable because donor constancy is not a given. Thus important question is: what factors drive the financial sustainability of MFIs? Using data on 217 MFIs in 101...
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Decentralization and Natural Disasters
Goodspeed, Timothy - 2013
level of government. The next section discusses the empirical results that have been found in the literature. A third …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083868
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Connotation of Minor Millet Biodiversity and Indirect Payments in Tribal Homesteads in the Backdrop of Climate Change
Aravindakshan, Sreejith - 2014
Unscathed agrobiodiversity remaining in-situ today is found on the small-scale farms and homestead gardens of poorer and developing countries (Brookfield, 2001). The indigenous traditional farming of Muthuvan tribe as the case of Finger millet or Ragi (Eleusine coracana), a minor millet...
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A Brief Understanding of Hunger and its Resolution
Giovannucci, Daniele - 2014
Food is one of the most primal ways to transmit culture and traditions and thus has vital and even cross-generational importance for us. Nevertheless, many of us have gone beyond relating to food as a primal need. So, in this age of abundance, food is either under-appreciated as epitomized by...
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