A review of bank restructuring operations in seven countries of Sub-Saharan Africa - Benin, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Mozambique indicates that not all these efforts have succeeded. Interventions to break-up or privatize dominant state-owned banks are, in some cases,...

This paper describes a study performed to investigate the use of the Nash Bargaining Model in the selection of a trajectory for the Mariner Jupiter/Saturn 1977 (MJS77) Project spacecraft in the vicinity of Titan, the largest satellite of Saturn. This effort was exploratory in nature with the...

To many, reducing water losses is seen as key to more sustainable water management. The arguments to reduce water losses are compelling, but reducing water losses has turned out to be challenging. This paper applies a panel data analysis with fixed effects to determine the major drivers of...

Aid is good for the poor. This paper uses detailed aid data spanning 60 developing countries over the past two decades to show that social aid significantly and directly benefits the poorest in society, while economic aid increases the income of the poor through growth. This new and unequivocal...

This paper uses the gravity model to analyze whether the varying export performance of Croatian counties can be explained by their proximity to border gates, ports, and other county-specific characteristics. The analysis finds that longer distances to border gates increase trade frictions...

Extension services are a keystone of information diffusion in agriculture. This paper exploits a large randomized controlled trial to track diffusion of a new technique in the classic Training and Visit (T&V) extension model, relative to a more direct training model. In both control and...

Market integration is key to ensuring sufficient and stable food supplies. This paper assesses the impediments to market integration in Central and Eastern Africa for three food staples: maize, rice, and sorghum. The paper uses a large database on monthly consumer prices for 150 towns in 13...