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Even though there is a growing interest to empower rural women in all economic activities. Works of literature are … scant to evaluate the role of small-scale irrigation technology on women empowerment. This study evaluates the impact of the … adoption of small-scale irrigation technologies on women empowerment, where empowerment is measured by Women Empowerment in the …
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The present paper explores how implementation of digital technologies (DTs) assists firms in transition economies in addressing weaknesses of the institutional environment surrounding them, in particular via establishment of collective governance systems. Based on case studies of three...
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literature to make the case for the tendency of social capital resources of agricultural cooperatives in the Western world to …-making calculus. Cooperatives are shown to present one of the channels through which this codification may be possible; namely, the … codification effect of cooperatives enables the incorporation of a multitude of mutual self-help activities into the economic …
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commonly attributed to variation in inherent institutions and reform policy choices. In this paper the link between … institutions, reforms and (labour) productivity growth in agriculture is analysed within an augmented neo-classical growth model … that the shift to individual land use, measuring farm restructuring, as well as the overall economic reforms, supported by …
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Supportive institutional environments help build the foundations for innovative and productive entrepreneurship. A few post-Soviet countries have benefitted from international integration through EU membership, which enabled the development of democracy and free market principles. However, many...
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structures and institutions. Across a range of development outcomes—in terms of the speed and success of reforms—transition is an …
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We study a randomized Community Driven Reconstruction (CDR) intervention that provided two years of exposure to democratic practices in 1250 villages in eastern Congo. To assess its impact, we examine behavior in a village-level unconditional cash transfer project that distributed $1000 to 457...
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through institutional mechanisms. The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between social sector institutions … and basic institutions, taking into account the economic development of countries and the way in which they are formed. A … number of empiric studies confirmed significant role of institutions to provide conditions for economic development. In order …
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It is widely known that both geography and institutions determine the location of an investment. However, little is … examines whether the 'first-' and 'second-nature' geography and institutions affect the plans of entrepreneurs to expand or …
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This paper investigates two different approaches to the analysis of institutions using game theory and discusses their …, how Schotter and Schelling's approaches to the analysis of economic institutions contribute to develop a proper cognitive … method to investigate institutions as the unplanned outcome of self- interested individual behavior? While the game theory …
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