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Participation according to the law? The research-based knowledge on citizen participation in Norwegian municipal planning

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Spatial Development, 2018
Citizen participation is enshrined in the Norwegian Planning and Building Act (PBA) 1985 and accentuated by the 2008 revision of the PBA. In this article, we ask if the research on participation in municipal planning is sufficient to draw conclusions on
Toril Ringholm   +2 more
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Assessing Household Welfare in Response to Rising Food Prices in The Gambia

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how rising food prices affected household welfare in The Gambia using nationally representative data from the 2015/16 Integrated Household Survey (IHS‐3). The analysis reflects household consumption behavior and market conditions prevailing during that period and provides a structural benchmark for understanding ...
Roger Vorsah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Institutionalist View on Experimentalist Governance: Local-level obstacles to policy-learning in European Union Cohesion Policy

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Spatial Development, 2017
The paper has the dual objective of contributing to theory development as well as to the debate about the added value of EU Cohesion Policy.
Stefan Telle
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On the Economics of US Agricultural Policy

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents an economic analysis of US agricultural policy, building on a modified version of Gardner's efficient redistribution. We argue that agricultural policy is motivated as an attempt to implement an efficient redistribution scheme that redistributes income toward farmers who, as a group, have been adversely affected by ...
Jean‐Paul Chavas
wiley   +1 more source

Challenges to Local Government Innovation: Legal and Institutional Impediments to the Exercise of Innovative Economic Development Policy by Subnational Jurisdictions

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Spatial Development, 2013
A local government can use innovative governance practices to expand its jurisdictional capacity, thereby promoting local economic development.
Adam Grydehøj
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Do outgrower schemes enhance technology adoption and productivity? Evidence from maize farmers in Northern Ghana

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Nucleus outgrower schemes are contractual arrangements where well‐resourced large‐scale farmers (nucleus farmers) are empowered by development support agencies to take charge of smallholder farmers, by providing them with market access and the necessary training on agronomic practices and farm inputs for production.
Dominic Tasila Konja, Awudu Abdulai
wiley   +1 more source

Compact city development: High ideals and emerging practices

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Spatial Development, 2012
Compact city development has, over the last 20 years or so, emerged as the preferred response to the goal of sustainable development. As such, it is pertinent to examine planning practices to see whether the traditional economic bias in planning is now ...
Hege Hofstad
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Analyzing individual rent price ratios in eastern German agricultural land markets: A GAMLSS approach

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores the rent price ratio in agricultural land markets, crucial for evaluating market efficiency, policy needs, and farmer decision‐making. Traditionally, the analyses faced challenges due to the absence of concurrent sale and rent data for the same land, potentially leading to biased results.
Marius Michels   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vision vs. Evaluation – Case Studies of Light Rail Planning in Denmark

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Spatial Development, 2017
Light rail transit (LRT) is a popular public transport mode used to upgrade the public transport system and support urban development strategies. Despite the seemingly poorer socio-economic return of LRT in cost benefit analyses (CBA) compared to bus ...
Morten Skou Nicolaisen   +2 more
doaj  

Disaggregated welfare effects of agricultural price policies in urban Indonesia [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
This paper presents a theoretically consistent methodology that could be used to measure changes in different income groups' welfare level caused by alternative price policies.
Jensen, Helen, Manrique, Justo
core   +1 more source

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