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Foreign Aid in Transition: A Critical Assessment of USAID's Withdrawal From Five Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. [PDF]

Public Health Chall
Tamirisa K, Rahim FO, Ali S, Shilleh A, Rugakingira A, Bakahirwa P, Kanda M.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Firm turnover under asymmetric information: Tanzania's agro‐dealer sector

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract We study firm turnover (i.e., entry and exit) and its consumer implications in a market characterized by asymmetric information. Using a three‐round census of agro‐dealers in Tanzania's Morogoro Region, we document annual firm entry and exit rates of 33% and 17%, respectively.
Alix Naugler, Hope Michelson, Sarah Janzen, Christopher Magomba   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

From the Guest Editors. [PDF]

Dela J Public Health
Orsega-Smith E, O'Hanlon J.
europepmc   +1 more source

The causal effect of agricultural landscape simplification on Germany's grasslands during a compound drought and heatwave in 2018

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Preserving ecosystem services, along with economic and environmental benefits, will require future landscape policies to identify and incorporate relevant landscape features. In this paper, we investigate the causal effect of agricultural landscape simplification on drought‐related grassland damages.
Marco Ferro, Jan Börner, Silke Hüttel, Katja Kowalski, Patrick Hostert, Krisztina Kis‐Katos   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Financing of adolescent health and wellbeing in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Nigeria: a case study of the Global Financing Facility. [PDF]

BMC Glob Public Health
Biermann O, Lindquist E, Mitu K, Olumide A, Oyetunde O, Yadete W, Bylund S, Luckenbill S, Claeson M, Baird S.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Income sharing for common pool resources with uncertain productivity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract We address the interconnected issues of externalities in the use of a natural common‐pool resource system and adverse effects of environmental uncertainty on risk‐averse resource users. We set up a simple analytical model and derive conditions such that insurance by means of an income sharing mechanism mitigates externalities and hence ...
Claudia Kelsall, Martin Quaas, Nicolas Quérou   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reverse auctions for drought‐responsive water buybacks: Evidence from co‐designed lab and field experiments

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Protecting endangered aquatic species while sustaining farming communities can require water buyback programs that are both cost‐effective and responsive to the variability and unpredictability of drought conditions. Working in close partnership with The Nature Conservancy and the Georgia Water Planning and Policy Center, we co‐design parallel
Lusi Xie, Kent D. Messer, Leah H. Palm‐Forster, Mark Masters, Holly A. Michael, Kristin Rowles   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Meeting the challenges to adolescent well-being: context, returns on investment, and financing. [PDF]

Health Policy Plan
Sheehan P, Rasmussen B, Ross DA, Mohan A, Sawyer S, Nandini B, Singh L, Sweeny K, Symons J, September R.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Are dairy cows replaced too early? Evidence from a structural model and cow‐level data

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract In past analyses of animal replacement decisions, studies have claimed that dairy farms often replace dairy cows too early to be maximizing profits. I estimate a structural model of asset replacement to determine the motives behind early replacement of dairy cows.
Jared P. Hutchins
wiley   +1 more source