Call for bids: Review of the SIDA-supported Environmental economics program
The department of Economics at Gothenburg university requests a team of consultant who will review the PhD program Environmental economics and the Environment for development initiative. The program…
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The value of access to water: livestock farming in the Nyagatare District, Rwanda
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In Rwanda, access to water is seen as a significant constraint to development in both urban and rural areas. The government and foreign donors give priority to improving access to water for agricultural use.
The persistence of subjective poverty in urban Ethiopia
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Using data spanning 15 years, we study subjective and consumption poverty in urban Ethiopia. Despite rapid economic growth and declining consumption poverty, subjective poverty remains largely unchanged.
Trust, Trust Games and Stated Trust: Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
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Levels of trust are measured by asking standard survey questions on trust and by observing the behaviour in a trust game using a random sample in rural Bangladesh.
EfD Seventh Annual Meeting 2013
During EfD's seventh annual meeting, spring began to warm the Western Cape of South Africa creating a fertile environment for over 70 delegates to present fresh research findings and exchange…
World Bank Land and Poverty Conference-2014
The 2014 World Bank Land and Poverty Conference will be held at World Bank Headquarters in Washington, D.C., on March 31 – April 3, 2014, under the theme of ' Integrating Land Governance into the Post…
Water Crisis in Rwanda
As a follow up to her recently published PhD thesis Claudine Uwera gives an interview to the French Science magazine “ SciDev.Net” and debates against the Deputy Director of the Energy and Water…
Land Tenure Reform in Asia and Africa: Assessing Impacts on Poverty and Natural Resource Management
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This book is about land tenure policies from an international perspective. It adds on the first book published by Holden and Otsuka entitled The Emergence of Land Markets in Africa: Assessing the Impacts on Poverty, Equity, and Efficiency (2009) in a much deeper way with a stronger and clearer focus on policy issues.
Behavioral Spillovers from Targeted Incentives: Losses from Excluded Individuals Can Counter Gains from Those Selected
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Incentives conditioned on socially desired acts such as donating blood, departing conflict or mitigating climate change have increased in popularity. Many incentives are targeted, excluding some of the potential participants based upon characteristics or prior actions. We hypothesize that pro-sociality is reduced by exclusion, in of itself (i.e., fixing prices and income), and that the rationale for exclusion influences such 'behavioral spillovers'.