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Gauging the potential for social unrest
Stark, Oded; Hyll, Walter; Behrens, Doris A. (2009-09)It stands to reason that social unrest does not erupt out of the blue. Although there are a great many reasons why social dismay might descend into social disorder, only few yardsticks or indices can plausibly be used to ... -
Reasons for remitting
Stark, Oded (2009-08)This paper presents a set of reflections on what gives rise to remittances, which constitute a major part of the impact of migration on economic development in the migrants’ own countries. The collage of reasons presented ... -
Measuring biodiversity: an axiomatic evaluation of measures based on genetic data
Gerber, Nicolas (2009-06)Biodiversity measurement is necessary to evaluate conservation alternatives and understand how to maximize biodiversity returns on conservation budgets. In the economics literature, most studies focus on species level ... -
Cooperation in transboundary water sharing under climate change
Bhaduri, Anik; Manna, Utpal; Barbier, Edward; Liebe, Jens (2009-06)As multiple countries share a river, the likelihood of a water resource conflict from climate change could be higher between countries. In this paper, we demonstrate how countries can cooperate in transboundary water sharing ... -
Preferences for domestic water services in the Middle Olifants sub-basin of South Africa
Kloos, Julia; Tsegai, Daniel W. (2009-05)Using household survey data, this study investigates preferences for domestic water services in the Middle Olifants sub-basin of South Africa. Water is a relatively scarce resource in South Africa that is distributed ... -
Industrial water demand analysis in the middle olifants sub-basin of South Africa: The case of mining
Linz, Teresa; Tsegai, Daniel W. (2009-04)This paper seeks to determine water demand of the mining sector in the Middle Olifants sub-basin of South Africa. Despite the growing economic importance of mining in the area, only little is known about its water demand ... -
Economic analysis of water supply cost structure in the Middle Olifants sub-basin of South Africa
Tsegai, Daniel W.; Linz, Teresa; Kloos, Julia (2009-04)Using data gathered from the National Treasury of South Africa, we examine the structure of water supply costs and tariffs of Water Service Authorities (WSAs) in the Middle Olifants sub-basin of South Africa. Using the ... -
An evolutionary edge of knowing less (or: on the "curse" of global information)
Stark, Oded; Behrens, Doris A. (2009-03)Consider a population of farmers who live around a lake. Each farmer engages in trade with his two adjacent neighbors. The trade is governed by a prisoner’s dilemma “rule of engagement.” A farmer’s payoff is the sum of the ... -
Policy repercussions of “The new economics of the brain drain”
Stark, Oded (2010-12)In this paper I delineate novel policy repercussions suggested by my research on “The New Economics of the Brain Drain.” In section 1, I provide a succinct account of the model that inspires the derivation of several new ... -
District-level spatial analysis of migration flows in Ghana: Determinants and implications for policy
Tsegai, Daniel; Le, Quang Bao (2010-12)The present study investigates the determinants of inter-district migration flows over the 1995-2000 period in Ghana. A combination of socio-economic, natural and spatial ‘district-level’ attributes are considered as ... -
Improving water use efficiency under worsening scarcity: Evidence from the Middle Olifants sub-basin in South Africa
Walter, Teresa; Kloos, Julia; Tsegai, Daniel (2010-11)With the political changes in South Africa in the early 1990s, the South African government introduced a reform process in the entire water sector with the goal of a more enhanced and equitable water management system. ... -
The political-economy of tax reforms in Pakistan: the ongoing saga of the GST
Ahmad, Ehtisham (2010-10)In this paper we examine issues of collusion between the tax administration and vested interests, and also difficulties arising from assigning a very mobile base to a level of government that does not have the technical ... -
The elusive productivity effect of trade liberalization in the manufacturing industries of emerging economies
Abegaz, Berhanu; Basu, Arnab K. (2010-10)Using a model that admits variable returns and imperfect competition, we investigate the impact on total factor productivity of trade liberalization in six emerging economies. Regressions based on panel data for 28 three-digit ... -
In search of an evolutionary edge: trading with a few, more, or many
Stark, Oded; Behrens, Doris A. (2010-09)Consider a population of farmers who live around a lake. Each farmer engages in trade with his <em>m</em> adjacent neighbors, where <em>m</em> is termed the “span of interaction.” Trade is governed by a prisoner’s dilemma ... -
Optimization of land and resource use at farm-aggregated level in the Aral Sea Basin of Uzbekistan with the integrated model FLEOM: model description and first application
Sommer, Rolf; Djanibekov, Nodir; Salaev, Omonbek (2010-07)Land use and crop production in the Khorezm region in western Uzbekistan, exemplarily for the irrigated low-lands of Central Asia, is adversely affected by the excessive, non-sustainable use of irrigation water on one hand, ... -
Peak phosphorus: Implications for agricultural production, the environment and development
Craswel, Eric T.; Tiessen, Holm; Vlek, Paul L. G. (2010-07)Phosphorus is a key element in food production, but is a non-renewable resource. Recent estimates suggest that global production of P fertilizers will peak in 2033 and will be one third of that peak level by the end of the ... -
Casting the naturalization of asylum seekers as an economic problem
Stark, Oded (2010-05)The naturalization of asylum seekers is modeled as an economic problem. In choosing their level of investment in host-country-specific human capital, asylum seekers take into consideration the probability of their being ... -
Differential migration prospects, skill formation, and welfare
Stark, Oded; Zakharenko, Roman (2011-12)This paper develops a one sector, two-input model with endogenous human capital formation. The two inputs are two types of skilled labor: “engineering,” which exerts a positive externality on total factor productivity, and ... -
Determinants of participation in child’s education and alternative activities in Pakistan
Lodhi, Abdul Salam; Tsegai, Daniel; Gerber, Nicolas (2011-12)Using data from Pakistan, this study analyzed the effect of various individual, household, and community level characteristics on the probability that children engage in different activities. According to the existing trend ... -
Determinants of public health expenditures in Pakistan
Abbas, Faisal; Hiemenz, Ulrich (2011-11)This study describes the macroeconomic determinants of health care spending in a broad context using time series data from Pakistan on economic, demographic, social, and political variables. The data spans a period from ...