may mute their impact on productive investment. In an experiment in Malawi, we cross-cut cash transfers with an "input … fair," designed to reduce transport costs to access agricultural inputs. Cash alone increases investment by 27%, while the … joint provision of cash and the input fair increases investment by about 40%; thus, the incremental effect of the input fair …

Underinvestment in agriculture -- a major cause of rural poverty -- may be due to difficulties to detect 'contingency …', defined as the influence one may exert on the distribution of returns on investment. Recently experienced contingency may … create a mismatch between perceived and actual contingency, leading to sub-optimal investment behaviour. To test this, we use …

Viet Nam needs huge investment in the energy sector in the coming 30 years to satisfy the rapid increase in the energy … country expects from relying mostly on private investment. This study analyzes the fundamental issues in accelerating the …

popular scale of assessment is district level in case of Indian agriculture. Despite several evolving methods of vulnerability …

to investigate an optimal least cost investment decisions for integrated energy source diversification. We seek to … investment and to better understand future energy security implication of various uncertainties. Dynamic linear programming model …

investment incentives for the right technologies to locate at the right locations to efficiently maintain a stable and reliable …

to investigate an optimal least cost investment decisions for integrated energy source diversification. We seek to … investment and to better understand future energy security implication of various uncertainties. Dynamic linear programming model …

The twin crisis of extensive electricity shortages and the surge in oil demand conveys to the world the inherent …