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  1. South Africa's post-apartheid microcredit-driven calamity
    comparing 'developmental' to 'anti-developmental' local financial models
    Author: Bateman, Milford
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  ÖFSE, Wien

    Microcredit was once universally lauded in international development community circles as a 'magic bullet'. Using the example of South Africa, this paper shows that microcredit has actually been an 'anti-developmental' local financial model, and one... more

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    Microcredit was once universally lauded in international development community circles as a 'magic bullet'. Using the example of South Africa, this paper shows that microcredit has actually been an 'anti-developmental' local financial model, and one of the most calamitous financial sector interventions in South Africa's short post-apartheid history. This disastrous performance is compared to a benchmark local financial model that I call the 'developmental' local financial model, a financial model that was quite decisive to much recent European and Asian local economic development success. Overall, microcredit can be viewed as South Africa's own sub-prime-style disaster which, like the original US version, has mainly served to benefit a tiny financial elite working within and around the microcredit sector, whilst simultaneously destroying many of the most important pillars of the economy and society. It clearly behoves policymakers in South Africa, as well as policymakers in other African countries and elsewhere in the international development community, to learn from South Africa's negative experience with 'anti-developmental' microcredit to date and promote alternative 'developmental' local financial models.

     
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    Series: Working paper / ÖFSE, Österreichische Forschungsstiftung für Internationale Entwicklung ; 47
    Subjects: Microcredit; South Africa; impact; poverty; informal; SME; institutions
    Scope: Online-Ressource (36 S.)
  2. Yield effects of tissue culture bananas in Kenya
    accounting for selection bias and the role of complementary inputs
    Author: Kabunga, Nassul S.; Dubois, Thomas; Qaim, Matin
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Courant Research Centre, Göttingen

    We analyze yield effects of tissue culture (TC) banana technology in the Kenyan small farm sector, using recent survey data and an endogenous switching regression approach. TC banana plantlets, which are free from pests and diseases, have been... more

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    We analyze yield effects of tissue culture (TC) banana technology in the Kenyan small farm sector, using recent survey data and an endogenous switching regression approach. TC banana plantlets, which are free from pests and diseases, have been introduced in East Africa since the late-1990s. While field experiments show significant yield advantages over traditional banana suckers, a rigorous assessment of impacts in farmers' fields is still outstanding. A comparison of mean yield levels between TC adopters and non-adopters in our sample shows no significant difference. However, we find a negative selection bias, indicating that farmers with lower than average yields are more likely to adopt TC. Controlling for this bias results in a positive and significant TC net yield gain of 7%. We also find that TC technology is more knowledge-intensive and more responsive to irrigation than traditional bananas. Simulations show that improving access to irrigation could lift TC productivity gains to above 20%. The analytical approach developed and applied here may also be useful for the evaluation of other knowledge-intensive package technologies and innovations in perennial crops.

     
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    Series: Discussion papers / Courant Research Centre ; 82
    Subjects: Biotechnology; adoption; productivity; impact; endogenous switching regression; Kenya
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  3. Food standards, certification, and poverty among coffee farmers in Uganda
    Author: Chiputwa, Brian; Qaim, Matin; Spielman, David J.
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Univ., RTG 1666 GlobalFood, Göttingen

    Private standards are gaining in importance in global markets for high-value foods. We analyze and compare impacts of three sustainability oriented standards – Fairtrade, Organic, and UTZ – on the livelihoods of smallholder coffee farmers in Uganda.... more

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    Private standards are gaining in importance in global markets for high-value foods. We analyze and compare impacts of three sustainability oriented standards – Fairtrade, Organic, and UTZ – on the livelihoods of smallholder coffee farmers in Uganda. Using survey data and propensity score matching with multiple treatments, we find that Fairtrade certification increases household living standards by 30% and significantly reduces the prevalence and depth of poverty. For the other two certification schemes, no significant impacts are found. Institutional factors that may explain differential impacts are discussed. Overly general statements about the effects of standards on smallholder livelihoods may be misleading.

     
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    Series: GlobalFood discussion papers ; 27
    Subjects: coffee; smallholder farmers; Organic; Fairtrade; impact; Uganda; Africa
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  4. The IOC's midas touch
    Summer Olympics and city growth
    Author: Nitsch, Volker; Wendland, Nicolai
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  CESifo, München

    Hosting a mega-event is a costly activity of short duration. Still, cities frequently compete to become host of all types of events. This paper examines the effect of staging the largest and most important sporting event in the world, the Summer... more

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    Hosting a mega-event is a costly activity of short duration. Still, cities frequently compete to become host of all types of events. This paper examines the effect of staging the largest and most important sporting event in the world, the Summer Olympic Games, on the host city. Applying a difference-in-differences methodology, we analyze the rates of population growth of Olympic cities, candidate cities and other large cities in host and candidate countries over the period from 1860 to 2010. We find that, following the Games, host cities experience a measurable decline in population growth relative to cities in the control group. Our results indicate that being awarded the Summer Olympics has, on average, a negative impact on cities.

     
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    Series: Array ; 4378
    Subjects: mega-events; impact; host city; city size
    Scope: Online-Ressource (27 S.), graph. Darst.
  5. Putting it all together
    aggregating impacts of school-feeding programmes on education, health and nutrition: two proposed methodologies
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  WIDER, Helsinki

    School-feeding is an important intervention to attract children to school and augment their learning. The benefits of school-feeding cover several domains. Key to the overall assessment of these benefits is understanding how different implementation... more

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    School-feeding is an important intervention to attract children to school and augment their learning. The benefits of school-feeding cover several domains. Key to the overall assessment of these benefits is understanding how different implementation models compare to each other and to other interventions with similar aims and objectives. Herein, we outline two approaches to aggregating outcomes for school-feeding. One involves a discreet choice experiment to derive utility scores combining outcomes into one measure. The other focuses on quality-adjusted school days as a measure that encompasses the varied benefits from school-feeding. The discrete choice experiment offers a robust method to integrate utility for different benefits. However, it necessitates a complex design. The quality-adjusted school days method has greater simplicity. When developed, different interventions that aim to foster learning could be meaningfully compared.

     
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    Series: Working paper / World Institute for Development Economics Research ; 2014/036
    Subjects: impact; school-feeding; learning; economic indicators
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  6. Ranking leading econometrics journals using citations data from ISI and RePEc
    Author: Zhang, Jialin; McAleer, Michael
    Published: 2013

    The paper focuses on the robustness of rankings of academic journal quality and research impact of 10 leading econometrics journals taken from the Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science (ISI) Category of Economics, using citations data from ISI and the... more

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    The paper focuses on the robustness of rankings of academic journal quality and research impact of 10 leading econometrics journals taken from the Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science (ISI) Category of Economics, using citations data from ISI and the highly accessible Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) database that is widely used in economics, finance and related disciplines. The journals are ranked using quantifiable static and dynamic Research Assessment Measures (RAMs), with 15 RAMs from ISI and 5 RAMs from RePEc. The similarities and differences in various RAMs, which are based on alternative weighted and unweighted transformations of citations, are highlighted to show which RAMs are able to provide informational value relative to others. The RAMs include the impact factor, mean citations and non-citations, journal policy, number of high quality papers, and journal influence and article influence. The paper highlight robust rankings based on the harmonic mean of the ranks of 20 RAMs, which in some cases are closely related. It is shown that emphasizing the most widely-used RAM, the 2-year impact factor of a journal, can lead to a distorted evaluation of journal quality, impact and influence relative to the harmonic mean of the ranks.

     
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    Series: Array ; 2013,173
    Subjects: research assessment measures; citations; impact; influence; harmonic mean; robust journal rankings; econometrics
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  7. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
    did they change social reality?
    Author: Moldalieva, Janyl; Muttaqien, Arip; Muzyamba, Choolwe; Osei, Davina; Stoykova, Eli; Nga Le Thi Quynh
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU‐MERIT), Maastricht, the Netherlands

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    Series: Working paper series / United Nations University, UNU-MERIT ; #2016, 035
    Subjects: Millennium Development Goals; impact; social realities; Interrupted Time Series Analysis; Sub-Saharan Africa
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 31 Seiten), Illustrationen
  8. The impact of immigration
    why do studies reach such different results?
    Author: Dustmann, Christian; Schönberg, Uta; Stuhler, Jan
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration, London

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    Series: CReAM discussion paper series ; CPD 26, 16
    Subjects: Immigration; impact; wage effects
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 80 Seiten), Illustrationen