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Flexible Contract, Flexible Morale? Microcredit Design and Repayment Discipline

International Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Flexible repayment benefits borrowers, but practitioners fear increased moral hazard. Investigating their concerns requires disentangling repayment choices from repayment capacity, which is typically infeasible in field studies. We use a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment with 645 microcredit borrowers to cleanly identify the effect of repayment ...
Kristina Czura, Anett John, Lisa Spantig
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of organized guarding on mortality from human-elephant conflict in northeast India. [PDF]

Conserv Biol
Sekar N, Bhatt T, Deomurari A, Sharma S, Kumari P, Kayina A, Somanathan E.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Compassionate Digital Innovation: A Pluralistic Perspective and Research Agenda

Information Systems Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Digital innovation offers significant societal, economic and environmental benefits but is also a source of profound harms. Prior information systems (IS) research has often overlooked the ethical tensions involved, framing harms as ‘unintended consequences’ rather than symptoms of deeper systemic problems.
Raffaele F. Ciriello, Lars Mathiassen, Marten Risius, Marc Cheong, Helana Scheepers, Emmanuelle Vaast   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crop raiding by wildlife due to landscape modifications: Ecological function losses caused by forest development on the island of Yakushima, southern Japan [PDF]

, 2018
揚妻 直樹
core   +1 more source

Serial Investing and Strategic Commitment in Markets With Unknown Competitors

Journal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study how serial investors who regularly face unknown competitors attempt to make their projects dominant. Innovating in new markets often involves uncertainty over the nature of the final product and who the key competitors will be. Such projects also have long‐term funding needs, so a commitment to provide the necessary funds imparts a ...
Naveen Khanna, Richmond Mathews
wiley   +1 more source

Entwined economies of violence: understanding borderland conflict and resource politics in northern Kenya. [PDF]

Disasters
Rogei DS.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Great Game: Conservation in East Africa 1950-2016 [PDF]

, 2016
Adams, WM
core   +2 more sources

Feeding Preference and Foraging Behaviour of Eriopis connexa on Two Aphid Species

Journal of Applied Entomology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aphids are phloem‐feeding insects that cause both direct and indirect damage to crops, reducing agricultural productivity. Among the available pest control strategies, biological control using natural enemies is a sustainable and effective approach. The ladybird Eriopis connexa (Germar, 1824) is a generalist predator known for its voracity and
Anna Mara Ferreira Maciel, Lucas Ramos Vieira, Rayana Mayara Rocha Carvalho, Wesley Augusto Conde Godoy   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Potential of the Predatory Mites Gamasellodes lavafesii (Mesostigmata: Ascidae) and Cosmolaelaps mediocuspis (Mesostigmata: Laelapidae) on Different Soil Pests/Parasites and Alternative Prey for Large‐Scale Rearing

Journal of Applied Entomology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many species of Mesostigmata soil mites have potential as biological control agents of pests/parasites. This study evaluated the predation potential of two of these species, Gamasellodes lavafesii (Ascidae) and Cosmolaelaps mediocuspis (Laelapidae).
A. R. A. Barros, J. P. I. Martin, G. J. Moraes, M. M. Inomoto, R. C. Castilho   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Distribution range and human-hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibious) conflict in the Lake Tana biosphere reserve, Ethiopia. [PDF]

BMC Zool
Mulu G, Ejigu D.
europepmc   +1 more source