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Temporary Programs, Lasting Questions: Ad Hoc Assistance in the U.S. Farm Safety Net

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Large ad hoc assistance programs have returned to U.S. farm policy since 2017, operating alongside a more developed safety net built around federally subsidized crop insurance, Title I commodity programs, and standing disaster assistance. This paper reviews the renewed use of ad hoc assistance, documents its recent scale using USDA data, and ...
Alejandro Plastina, Oranuch Wongpiyabovorn   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Charting Uncharted Waters: Participatory Budgeting as a Novel Transitional Justice Guarantee of Non-Recurrence of the Conflict in Colombia?

GIGAPP Estudios Working Papers, 2017
After fifty years of war, Colombia is about to start the implementation of an ambitious peace deal between the Government and the FARC-EP guerrilla. The final Peace Agreement between the parties surpass transitional justice measures implemented before ...
Dian Dajer Barguil
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Agency Manifestations in Schoolchildren and Their Involvement in Participatory Budgeting

Интеграция образования
Introduction. Education plays a key role in shaping the younger generation’s agency, i.e. their proactive attitude and ability to constructively transform social reality.
Mikhail E. Goshin, Pavel S. Sorokin, Boris V. Kupriyanov   +2 more
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Rural Labor Supply and Economic Opportunities: Commuting, Migration, Tariffs, and Immigration

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Some rural counties remain dependent on agricultural or manufacturing jobs, but an increasing proportion have diversified economics. Rural counties also differ in their abilities to commute to an urban market characterized by higher wages and labor productivity.
Peter F. Orazem, Mary C. Ahearn
wiley   +1 more source

Models of Participatory Budgeting - the Case Study of Polish City [PDF]

Journal of Economics and Management, 2015
Participatory budgeting as a tool of deliberative democracy is more and more popular in Polish cities. Literature review shows that there is no one the best procedure. Comparing with the typology of participatory budgeting based on European perspectives,
Adam Polko
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Participatory Budgeting in Poland AD 2019: Expectations, Changes and Reality

Polish Political Science Yearbook, 2019
Discussion whether to formalize participatory budgeting or not has been solved. Again, this time it has happened without scholars’ engagement. Given this situation, can we say that whoever is satisfied? The amendment of the act that introduced legal form
Krzysztof Makowski
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Do Universal Free School Meals Improve the Dietary Quality of Food‐At‐Home Purchases?

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since 2014, the number of schools offering universal free meals to all enrolled children without requiring annual meal applications has increased meaningfully. Using USDA's Purchase to Plate Crosswalk, a difference‐in‐differences framework, and a nationwide consumer panel, the effect of universal‐free‐meal exposure on the diet quality of food ...
Xueying Ma, Andres Cuadros‐Meñaca, Michael R. Thomsen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Participatory Budgeting in Banská Bystrica: Development, Challenges, and Progress (2014–2024)

Ekonomika a Spoločnosť
The purpose of this paper is to present a detailed analysis of participatory budgeting as a mechanism for engaging the public in decision-making, while also identifying the main challenges associated with its implementation and development.
Margaréta Švoňavcová, Anna Vaňová
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Differentiated Impacts of EU Rural Development Measures: A Finite Mixture Evaluation of Italian Olive Farms

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the relationship between participation in the EU Rural Development Program and the economic performance of Italian olive farms using a finite‐mixture model with inverse‐probability‐weighted regression adjustment. Based on 2010–2022 FADN panel data, it estimates heterogeneous treatment effects while correcting for selection ...
Francesco Caracciolo, Marilena Furno
wiley   +1 more source

TIC et démocratie locale. Considérations empiriques issues de la pratique du budget participatif dans des communes camerounaises

Tic & Société, 2017
Following various works on uses of ICTs, this paper focuses on their mobilization in local political dynamics in Cameroon. We observed participatory budgeting practices.
Calvin Minfegue
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