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Using the budget-based scheme approach developed by Kirby et.al. (1991) and Reichelstein (1992), this paper establishes the optimal policy function in order to control hidden actions from managers of Public Water Utilities (PWU) regarding investments that deviate from the Optimized Business Plan...
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), institutions, and programs implemented in Peru during the period 1990-2007. The assessment is based on a simple, basic framework of … implemented in Peru did not significantly alter the productive structure of the Peruvian economy. If the objectives of the PDPs …
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Recent studies have shown that developing countries might have significantly better export performance if they were able to increase the duration of their trade relationships. Evidence on duration of these relationships at the firm level is virtually absent. In this paper, we aim at filling this...
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school years) in four developing countries: Peru, Ethiopia, India, and Vietnam. Intercontinental evidence on the timing … that Peru stands out, not only as the country with the largest cross-section disparity between rich and poor (of around 1 …
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labor among isolated villages in rural Peru. We exploit the timing of an intervention that provided at least one public …
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We evaluate the effectiveness of sending text messages to pregnant women containing appointment reminders and suggestions for healthy behaviors during pregnancy. Receiving messages had an overall positive effect of 5 percent on the number of prenatal care visits attended. Moreover, for women who...
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Peru. Applying propensity score matching at the community as well as at the household level, the authors find that …
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a consequence of the international crisis of 2008, but Peru sustained positive GDP growth rates during that episode and …
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analysis carried out in Jequetepeque watershed, Peru. The paper argues that the introduction of PES schemes takes place in a …
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Bangladesh and Peru through contingent valuation methods. The development of contingent valuation methods together with the … telecommunications projects are welfare enhancing, since households' WTP are higher than the prevailing tariff rates. For Peru … parametric and non-parametric measures utilized suggesting that the rural telecommunications projects in Bangladesh and Peru are …
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