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Access to grid electricity helps rural households start non-agricultural businesses.
| EfD Discussion Paper | Ethiopia
Loans can help women lower poverty and become economically empowered.
| Peer Reviewed |This paper develops a new class of dynamic models for forecasting extreme financial risk. This class of models is driven by the score of the conditional distribution with respect to both the duration…
| Peer Reviewed | ChileAbstract The value-added by plastic film mulches are numerous in agricultural productivity and its global acceptance is unprecedented. However, its disturbing effects on the natural water cycling…
| Peer Reviewed | Nigeria| Peer Reviewed |
The study examined the determinants of technical efficiency among lowland rice farmers in Enugu State, Nigeria. Primary data were sourced from rice producers through the use of well designed…
| Peer Reviewed | NigeriaCoastal communities depending on small-scale fisheries (SSFs) are poorly understood. Designing policies to address their vulnerabilities requires understanding the socioeconomic context in which SSFs…
| Peer Reviewed | ColombiaAbstract A number of wetland ecosystem-services valuation studies around the world have been carried out, however, most of these studies have focused on wetlands in developed countries and few have…
| Peer Reviewed | EthiopiaWe determine whether community pharmacies in Bogotá produce differential quality signals, and if they are related to an objective quality measure: the compliance with prescription rules. In this…
| Peer Reviewed | ColombiaAbstract. In this paper, we estimate the Value of Statistical Life (VSL) for Chile, Colombia, and the United States using a hedonic wage model and a pseudo-panel approach. The VSL is a major component…
| Peer Reviewed | Colombia, Chile