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Private provision of rural infrastructure services: competing for subsidies [PDF]
Market-oriented reforms of infrastructure in developing countries tend to focus primarily on commercially viable services in urban areas. Nevertheless, an increasing number of countries are beginning to experiment with extending the market paradigm to ...
Foster, Vivien +2 more
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Financing the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals: A Rough Roadmap [PDF]
, 2014 We regroup the main types of global development finance into three clusters: concessional public finance (including domestic taxes), public borrowing on market-related terms, and private finance.
Andrew Rogerson, Annalisa Prizzon
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Temperature and Farm Labor in Nigeria
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We estimate the impact of temperature shocks on the composition of farm labor in rural Nigeria using a nationally representative household panel survey. Leveraging plausibly exogenous year‐to‐year variation in growing season temperatures, we find that warmer temperatures significantly alter farm labor composition, prompting a substantial shift
Andu Berha
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Infrastructure finance in Europe: Composition, evolution and crisis impact [PDF]
This article is the first attempt to compile comprehensive data on infrastructure finance in Europe. We decompose infrastructure finance by institutional sector (i.e.
de Nicola, Carlo +2 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Understanding how policy instruments with overlapping goals interact is crucial for leveraging their synergies. This study explores the mechanisms for regional nature parks (a form of protected areas that impose no restrictions on agriculture) to enhance the adoption of biodiversity‐conserving agri‐environment schemes (AES) in Switzerland ...
Yanbing Wang +3 more
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EVOLUTION OF PUBLIC FINANCE SECTOR’S INCOME AND EXPENDITURE BETWEEN 2004 AND 2011
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Oeconomica, 2014 The aim of the article is to present the evolution of the structure of the public finance sector’s income and expenditure between 2004 and 2011 and an attempt to find and evaluate the determinants of those changes. The author verifies the hypothesis of a
Marek Chrzanowski
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Housing finance in transition economies : the early years in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union [PDF]
The transition to markets dominates the development agenda of the 1990s. Financial sector reforms are central to a successful transition to a market economy.
Renaud, Bertrand M.
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia +4 more
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Social sector expenditures and rainy-day funds [PDF]
Gonzalez and Paqueo examine the effects of budget stabilization funds--often called rainy-day funds--on the volatility of social spending and, for contrast, on nonsocial sector spending. They analyze the rainy-day funds of U.S. states.
Gonzalez, Christian Y. +1 more
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Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.Hydrogen‐powered aviation offers a transformative pathway to zero‐emission flight by eliminating in‐flight CO2 emissions. Key considerations include propulsion systems (fuel cells and hydrogen combustion), cryogenic storage and insulation challenges, infrastructure and cost barriers, and supply‐chain constraints.
Mubasshira +4 more
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