Devolving property rights to local
institutions has emerged as a compelling management strategy
for natural resource management in developing countries. The
use of property...
Giving power over school management and
spending decisions to communities has been a favored
strategy to increase school quality, but its effectiveness
may depend on...
Stylized facts drive research agendas
and policy debates. Yet robust stylized facts are hard to
come by,and when available, often outdated. The 12 papers in
this Special...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 123191Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Christiaensen,Luc
Groundwater exploitation has been
instrumental in raising agricultural productivity
andreducing rural poverty in South Asia, a region that
accounts for nearly half of...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 129211Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Jacoby,Hanan G.
Commissions-motivated agents have
historically helped the development of many markets, but
research suggests brokers motivated by commissions sometimes
steer consumers...
When social security is established to
provide pensions to parents, their reliance upon children
for future financial support decreases, and their need to
save for retirement...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 140517Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Mu,Ren ;
Du,Yang
Policy makers bemoan the lack of
research findings to guide urgent decisions, whereas
researchers’ professional code puts rigor first. This
article argues that provisional...
When prices spike in international grain
markets, national governments often reduce the extent to
which that spike affects their domestic food markets. Those
actions...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 129204Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Jensen,Hans G. ;
Anderson,Kym
A new measure of cross-national
corruption is constructed based on the geographic
distribution of public officials involved in cross-border
corruption cases. A comparison...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 129209Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Escresa,Laarni ;
PICCI, LUCIO
In 2011 the Government of El Salvador
implemented a reform to the liquefied gas (LPG) subsidy that
increased the welfare of households in all but the top two
deciles...
The World Bank and the government of
Cameroon launched a performance-based financing (PBF)
program in Cameroon in 2011. To ensure its rapid
implementation, the performance...
Self-help groups (SHGs) are the most
common form of microfinance in India. The authors provide
evidence that SHGs, composed of women only, undertake
collective actions...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 129171Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Casini, Paolo ;
Vandewalle,Lore Dries A. ;
Wahhaj, Zaki
This introductory paper presents the
results of an international multi-disciplinary research
project on the measurement of food consumption in national
household surveys....
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 123225Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Zezza,Alberto ;
Carletto,Calogero ;
Fiedler,John L. ;
Gennari,Pietro ;
Jolliffe,Dean Mitchell
The transition from subsistence to
commercial agriculture is key for economic growth. But what
are the consequences for nutritional outcomes? The evidence
to date has...
Extension is designed to enable
lab-to-farm technology diffusion. Decentralized models
assume that information flows from researchers to extension
workers, and from...
Using three waves of survey data from
fishing villages in Aceh, Indonesia for 2005–09, we examine
the determinants of local volunteer labor after the tsunami.
Volunteer...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 129175Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Freire, J, Tiago ;
Henderson,John Vernon ;
Kuncoro,Ari
How prevalent is data fabrication in
household surveys? Would such fabrication substantially
affect the validity ofempirical analyses? We document how we
identified...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 129203Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Finn,Arden Jeremy ;
Ranchhod,Vimal
Investments in intelligent
transportation systems (ITS) are beginning to take place in
the context of smart city initiatives in many cities. Energy
efficiency and emissions...
AIDS was first publicly reported on 5th
June 1981 in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report(MMWR)
of the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Doctors in New
York...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 112992Date: December 14, 2016Author:
Wilson,David ;
Whiteside,Alan W.
This paper studies the impact of
input-trade liberalization on firms’ decision to upgrade
foreign technology embodied in imported capital goods. The
authors empirical...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 140509Date: December 10, 2016Author:
Bas,Maria ;
Berthou,Antoine
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