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Optimal tax and expenditure policy in the presence of migration – are credit restrictions important?
Purpose: Empirical studies have found an inverted-U curve relationship between emigration and per capita income. In this paper, a theoretical underpinning for this phenomenon is presented based on…
31 August 2014 | Peer Reviewed | SwedenLand use is regulated through various mixes of command-and-control interventions that directly affect land use via land use restrictions, and other public interventions that indirectly affect land use…
30 August 2014 | Peer Reviewed |This paper assesses rural households’ decision to use improved maize varieties in Malawi and examines its impact on household welfare using a three-year household panel data. The distributional effect…
30 August 2014 | Peer Reviewed | EthiopiaEthiopia has implemented one of the largest, fastest and least expensive land registration and certification reforms in Africa. While there is evidence that this ‘first-stage’ land registration has…
30 August 2014 | Peer Reviewed | EthiopiaThis study examines current land access and livelihood choices of rural youth in Southern Ethiopia. We found that youth in rural south have limited access to agricultural land because of land scarcity…
30 August 2014 | Peer Reviewed | EthiopiaClimate change is one of the most important challenges facing the world in general and Africa in particular. This article examines economic costs of climate change and climate finance with a focus on…
30 August 2014 | Peer Reviewed | EthiopiaThe European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is so far the largest emissions trading system in the world. A rigorous ex post empirical analysis of the scheme is presented. The effect of the…
28 August 2014 | Peer Reviewed | SwedenLand is a scarce resource in the highlands of Ethiopia. Its sustainable use is highly affected by bio-physical and institutional factors. The purpose of this research is to investigate farmers'…
24 August 2014 | Peer Reviewed | EthiopiaThis article reviews the history of the Environment for Development (EfD) initiative, its activities in capacity building and policy-oriented research, and case studies at its centres in Chile, China…
15 August 2014 | Peer Reviewed | South Africa, China, Chile, Sweden, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kenya, Central America, Global HubPrevious studies on improved cook stove adoption in developing countries use cross-sectional data, which make it difficult to control for unobserved heterogeneity and investigate what happens to…
15 August 2014 | Peer Reviewed | Ethiopia, Global Hub