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Agricultural interventions are designed on certain assumptions of empowerment that do not necessarily address the livelihood constraints of the rural women they set out to support. This is a failing that might be due to the omission of women’s voices expressing their understanding of...
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economic opportunities to rural women in the oil host communities. However, a further look at the rural women's participation …
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This paper analyses institutional reforms and political participation, most notably indirect and direct elections of … awareness and participation. For instance, they make people voice more opinions in their shequ, which may be a good starting …. Whilst 'security first, participation second' seems to be the order of the day and the 'freedom of politics' is still more …
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Reciprocity can be a powerful motivation for human behaviour. Scholars argue that it is relevant in the context of private provision of public goods. We examine whether reciprocity can resolve the associated coordination problem. The interaction of reciprocity with cost-sharing is critical....
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: institutional properties of empowerment models, citizen participation, and responses of service providers and public officials … allow opportunities for citizen participation, enforce the rule of law, and ensure inclusive access to services. …
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characterization by investigating the correlation between individual behavior in a simple public goods game and their participation in … children in primary school. We find significant correlations between cooperativeness and participation in school accountability …
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The income gradient in political participation is a widely accepted stylized fact. This article asks how income effects …
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Traditionally, governments seek to mobilize tax revenues by expanding their enforcement of existing tax regimes and facilitating tax payments. However, enforcement and facilitation can be costly and produce diminishing marginal returns if citizens are unwilling to pay their taxes. This paper...
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In emerging markets for high-value food products in developing countries, processing companies search for efficient ways to source raw material of consistent quality. One widely embraced approach is contract farming. But relatively little is known about the appropriate design of contracts,...
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