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The G20 Proposal on IMF Governance: Is there Progress?
Menkhoff, Lukas; Meyer, Reeno - Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2010
suggests a reallocation ofvoting shares to emerging and developing countries, an antedated reform of the quota system …,a delinking of the managing director’s election from regional origin and support for the Singaporequota and voice reform of 2006.[...] …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870767
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Rural Sector Reform and Internet Adoption in NGOs:The Case of Indonesia
Nugro, Yanuar - Manchester Business School - 2008
Today rural sector reform is a paramount issue in Indonesian development. Yet, different social actorshave different … sector reform issue today. An empiricalstudy was conducted recently to see how some Indonesian NGOs, in their endeavour to … approach to build a detailed story about how different organisations working in the ruralsector reform issue deploy strategies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870471
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Land reform and agricultural productivity in India: a review of the evidence
Ghatak, Maitreesh; Roy, Sanchari - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
productivity in India. We find that, overall for all states, land-reform legislation had anegative and significant effect on … agricultural productivity. However, this hides considerable variation acrosstypes of land reform, as well as variation across … states. Decomposing by type of land reform, the main driverfor this negative effect seems to be land-ceiling legislation. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008860723
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C an unobserved heterogeneity in farmer ability explain theinverse relationship between farm size and productivity
Assunção, Juliano J.; Ghatak, Maitreesh - Universidade <Rio de Janeiro, 1979 ->; London School of … - 2003
The well-known inverse relationship between farm size and productivity is usually explained in terms ofdiminishing returns with respect to land and other inputs coupled with various types of market frictions thatprevent the efficient allocation of land across farms. We show that even in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008911472
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New Econometric Evidence on Agricultural Total FactorProductivity Determinants: Impact of Funding Sources
Huffman, Wallace E.; Evenson, Robert E. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2003
This paper examines the impact of public and private agricultural research andextension on agricultural total factor productivity at the state level. We test the hypothesis thatthe composition of agricultural experiment station funding—share of funding from impact offederal competitive grants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009418923
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Determinants of the Demand for State AgriculturalExperiment Station Resources: A Demand-SystemApproach
Huffman, Wallace E.; Evenson, Robert E. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2003
This paper presents new econometric evidence on state government’s demand for resources to support local agricultural …-output composition impact a state government’s demand for resources for state agricultural experiment stations.[...] …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009418924
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Institutional Investors and Mutual Fund Governance: Evidence from Retail – Institutional Fund Twins
Evans, Richard B.; Fahlenbrach, Rüdiger - National Centre of Competence in Research - Financial … - 2011
Some investment advisors offer multiple versions of a fund with the same manager and highlycorrelated returns. But these “twin” funds are separate portfolios for different investors withdiffering abilities to select and monitor managers. Using a matched sample of retail andinstitutional twin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009419010
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Origins of the Federal Reserve Book-Entry System
Garbade, Kenneth D. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY> - 2004
[...]This article examines the origins and early development ofthe Federal Reserve’s book-entry system—the system mostclosely associated with the elimination of definitive, orcertificated, Treasury securities. We suggest that the Fed’ssystem was the product of three important factors: the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005869747
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Government Regulation and Changes in the Affordable Housing Stock
Somerville, Craig Tsuriel; Mayer, Christopher J. - University of British Columbia <Vancouver, British …; … - 2003
[...]In this paper, we look at the relationship between these twoissues to examine how government regulation affects thedynamics of the low-income housing stock. We find that,consistent with theoretical models of housing, restrictions onthe supply of new units lower the supply of affordable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005869787
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What Will Homeland Security Cost?
Hobijn, Bart - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY> - 2002
[...]In this article, we attempt to quantify the economic effectsof the homeland security efforts of the public and privatesectors, focusing specifically on the costs of these efforts. Inpractice, it is difficult to classify which expenditures are relatedto homeland security. For this reason, we...
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