Conditional Cash Transfers and Payments for Environmental Services - A Conceptual Framework for Explaining and Judging Differences in Outcomes

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The objective of this paper is to explore the determinants of additionality of CCT and PES schemes, defined as the programs’ capacity to deliver desired outcomes that would not have occurred in their absence.

Policy Design

Conditional cooperation and disclosure in developing countries

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Understanding the motivations behind people’s voluntary contributions to public goods is crucial for the broader issues of economic and social development. By using the experimental design of Fischbacher, Gächter, and Fehr (2001), we investigate the distribution of contribution types in two developing countries with very high collectivism rating – Colombia and Vietnam – and compare our findings with those previously found in developed countries.

Experiments

Does one size fit all? Heterogeneity in the valuation of community forestry programs

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Through the implementation of a choice experiment valuation exercise, this study set out to identify the set of community plantation attributes that impact the welfare of potential community forestry program participants. 

Forestry

Evaluating the Prospects of Benefit Sharing Schemes in Protecting Mountain Gorillas in Central Africa

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Presently, the mountain gorilla in Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo is endangered mainly by poaching and habitat loss. This paper sets out to investigate the possible resolution of poaching involving the local community by using benefit sharing schemes with local communities. Using a bioeconomic model, the paper demonstrates that the current revenue sharing scheme yields suboptimal conservation outcomes.

Conservation

Forest-poverty nexus: Exploring the contribution of forests to rural livelihoods in Kenya

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This paper explores the contribution of forests to the livelihoods of local communities in Kenya. The paper uses survey data to explore resource extraction and the economic reliance of households on forests. The results suggest that both rich and poor households depend on forests, and that membership in forest user groups, and therefore participation in forest activities, may be based on a household's monetary rather than asset income. The results imply that forests support the living standards of the poor through the diversification of household income sources.

Forestry

Conspicuous Leisure: Optimal Income Taxation When Both Relative Consumption and Relative Leisure Matter

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In previous studies on public policy under relative-consumption concerns, leisure comparisons have been ignored. In this paper, we consider a two-type optimal non-linear income tax model, in which people care about both their relative consumption and their relative leisure. Increased consumption positionality typically implies higher marginal income tax rates for both ability types, whereas leisure positionality has an offsetting role.

Policy Design

Does Tourism Eco-Certification Pay? Costa Rica's Blue Flag Program

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Eco-certification can generate private benefits for tourism operators in developing countries and therefore has the potential to improve their environmental performance.

Forestry, Policy Design

Assessing the benefits and the costs of Dryland Forest in Central Chile

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Investment in natural capital restoration is rapidly increasing as a response to the widespread ecological degradation of dryland areas in Latin America. Nonetheless, few attempts have been made to evaluate the costs and benefits of restoration initiatives in dryland ecosystems. By combining ecological and economic information, we assessed the benefits and costs of restoring ecosystem services in a dryland forest landscape in the Colliguay Valley, in central Chile. An active restoration program was evaluated by comparing its benefits and costs over a twenty five-year period.

Conservation

The Natural Forest Protection Program in China: A contingent valuation study in Heilongjiang province

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In 1998 the Chinese government implemented the Natural Forest Protection Program, NFPP, which included logging restrictions, protected areas, replanting, and a range of other policies aimed at safeguarding the state of the country’s forests and reducing the risk of erosion and flooding.

Forestry

Evaluating the Prospects of Benefit Sharing Schemes in Protecting Mountain Gorillas in Central Africa

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Presently, the mountain gorilla in Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo is endangered mainly by poaching and habitat loss. This paper sets out to investigate the possible resolution of poaching involving the local community by using benefit sharing schemes with local communities.

Conservation