The objective of the Challenge is to support the development of innovative solutions for energy access, the integration of renewable energy and public utility performance improvement. The 2023 Call…
April 2023: New research project led by several research institutions in Germany: A social-ecological systems approach to inform ecosystem restoration in rural Africa
Ecosystem restoration is a global challenge. The German Research Foundation is funding a new research project that will investigate the social and ecological consequences of ecosystem restoration in rural Africa, with a particular focus on western Rwanda, and in collaboration with many Rwandan stakeholders.
for a low-carbon transition in the Global South The Global South is more vulnerable to climate change than the Global North but has less capacity to adapt. A low-carbon transition is needed and most
We study how the allocation of power in a voting procedure affects the regulation and extraction of environmental public goods. In an appropriation game experiment, different endowments induce heterogeneous preferences among the three group members regarding their preferred quota, aimed at increasing social efficiency by restricting aggregate extraction. The players vote by submitting a proposal; one among the submitted proposals is implemented, selected at random, but across treatments, we vary the odds that a type sets the regulation.
Seventeen fisheries officers from Uganda’s districts of Kampala, Mukono, Masaka, Wakiso, and Jinja have benefitted from training on the bio-economics of fisheries management, organized by EfD-Mak and…
We use a factor-augmented vector autoregressive (FAVAR) model to analyze the effect of a contractionary monetary policy shock on macroeconomic aggregates and labor market indicators for different demographic groups in Chile classified by industry, age, and income quintile. Inflation is negatively correlated with unemployment across groups. The model shows that most groups’ job-separation rate and wage volatility increase after an interest rate rise. The response of the job-finding rate is mixed, decreasing in some groups and rising in others after an interest rate shock.
Highlights:
▪ Hire purchase schemes increase vendors' likelihood of buying an LPG cookstove.
▪ Hire purchase schemes with a learning opportunity have a greater effect on the vendor’s likelihood of buying an LPG cookstove.