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How fair is workfare? gender, public works, and employment in rural Ethiopia [PDF]

The authors use the Ethiopian Rural Household Survey to examine the gender dimensions of public works. They use three rounds of a panel conducted in 1994-95 to explore the determinants of participation in, days worked, wages, and earnings from wage labor,
Quisumbing, Agnes R., Yohannes, Yisehac
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Can major public health emergencies increase the participation of commercial insurance? Evidence from China

Frontiers in Public Health
BackgroundPublic health emergencies have a lasting impact on a country's economic and social development. However, commercial insurance can disperse these negative consequences and reduce risk losses.MethodBased on the Chinese Household Tracking Survey ...
Yiqiu Wang, Chong Guo, Yang Xu, Meng Xie
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Descentralização e endividamento municipal: formas, limites e possibilidades
Decentralization and municipal indebtedness: modes, constraints, and possibilities [PDF]

Nova Economia, 2002
The objective of this article is to discuss alternatives to finance investments by municipalities. In general, current revenues are insufficient to finance large investments, what brings about the necessity of municipal indebtedness.
Amaury Patrick Gremaud, Rudinei Toneto Jr   +1 more
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La finance participative

Calenda, 2014
La promulgation des statuts de conseiller en investissement participatif et d'intermédiaire en investissement participatif, le 31 mai 2014, renouvelle le questionnement juridique sur les micro-financements dématérialisés. Les chercheurs du Centre René Demogue du CRDP y consacrent une journée d'étude le 26 juin, en salle Guy Debeyre de la faculté des ...
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Farm Output, Non-Farm Income, and Commercialization in Rural Georgia [PDF]

This article examines the decision of farmers to sell part of their farm output on the market, using data from the Republic of Georgia. A two-level empirical model is used, in which endowments and resource allocation decisions determine farm output and ...
Kan, Iddo, Kimhi, Ayal, Lerman, Zvi
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Trust, sociability and stock market participation [PDF]

, 2009
We investigate the effects of both trust and sociability for stock market participation, the role of which has been examined separately by existing finance literature. We use internationally comparable household data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and
Georgarakos, Dimitris, Pasini, Giacomo
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Fees and loathing: higher education finance and university participation [PDF]

With the UK's cap on tuition fees due to rise to £9,000, Gill Wyness looks at the impact of past fee increases on young people's decisions to go to university.wage differentials, returns to ...
Gill Wyness
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The Governance of Climate Change Adaptation Finance—An Overview and Critique

Revue Internationale de Politique de Développement, 2019
At COP21 in Paris parties to the UNFCCC reiterated the goal of USD 100 billion annually in climate finance by 2020 and agreed to set a more ambitious target by 2025.
Morgan Scoville-Simonds
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Benefit incidence and the timing of program capture [PDF]

Survey-based estimates of average program participation conditional on income are often used in assessing the distributional impacts of public spending reforms.
Lanjouw, Peter, Ravallion, Martin
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Foreign Direct Investment, Access to Finance, and Innovation Activity in Chinese Enterprises [PDF]

This paper investigates the link between inward FDI and innovation activity in China, using a very comprehensive and recent firm level database. We pay particular attention to the impact of domestic access to finance.
Holger Gorg, Sourafel Girma, Yundan Gong
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