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How standards drive taxes: the political economy of tailpipe pollution by Gulati, Sumeet, Roy, Devesh

“…We find that despite the independence of special interests, the political outcome is inextricably linked. This political link is different from the welfare maximizing second-best link usually expected between two related policies, and is crucial in correctly anticipating policy outcomes. …”
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Social networks, mobility, and political participation: The potential for women’s self-help groups to improve access and use of public entitlement schemes in India by Kumar, Neha, Raghunathan, Kalyani, Arrieta, Alejandra, Jilani, Amir Hamza, Chakrabarti, Suman, Menon, Purnima, Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…Using data collected in 2015 across five Indian states and matching methods to correct for endogeneity of SHG membership, we find that SHG members are more politically engaged. …”
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Social networks, mobility, and political participation: The potential for women’s self-help groups to improve access and use of public entitlement schemes in India by Kumar, Neha, Raghunathan, Kalyani, Arrieta, Alejandra, Jilani, Amir Hamza, Chakrabarti, Suman, Menon, Purnima, Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…Using data collected in 2015 across five Indian states and matching methods to correct for endogeneity of SHG membership, we find that SHG members are more politically engaged. …”
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Regenerative agriculture : a contested open moment by Hedling, Rickard

“…Some view it as a farmer-led movement that can correct the weaknesses of industrial agriculture. …”

Återintroduktion av schimpanser till det vilda by Hultqvist, Caroline

Food trade policy and food price volatility by Martin, Will, Mamun, Abdullah, Minot, Nicholas

“…Food trade barriers in many countries are systematically adjusted to insulate domestic markets from world price changes—a response not predicted by traditional political economy models. In this study, policymakers are assumed to minimize the political costs associated with changing domestic prices and deviating from longer-run political-economy equilibria. …”
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Implications of food trade policy for domestic and international food price volatility by Martin, Will, Mamun, Abdullah, Minot, Nicholas

“…It posits that policymakers aim to minimize the political costs associated with changing domestic prices and those associated with deviating from political-economy equilibria. …”
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Government and rural transformation: Role of public spending and policies in Bangladesh by Mudahar, Mohinder S., Ahmed, Raisuddin

“…Without the corrective measures at this stage, the possibility of economy missing the upward trajectory is very real.…”
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Domestic price distortions and agricultural income in developing countries by Bautista, Romeo M.

“…The findings argue for a careful examination of the relative efficiencies of different liberalization policy instruments in advancing specific development objectives in cases where, possibly for socio-political reasons, not all price distortions in interrelated markets can be corrected.…”
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Big Facts speak for themselves by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…Big Facts also invites improvements, updates and corrections.…”
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Irrigation, collective action, and property rights by Vermillion, Douglas L.

“…The process should include: strategic, participatory planning; research and stakeholder consultations; mobilization of political support; design and adoption of an appropriate policy, legal, institutional, and regulatory framework; strategy to coordinate lending and technical assistance; public awareness campaigns; and monitoring, evaluations, and course corrections. -- from Text.…”
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The sanitation-health nexus by Zurbrugg, C., Luthi, C., Hung Nguyen-Viet

“…Availability, accessibility, functionality, and correct and continued use and maintenance of sanitary facilities are key to sustainable improvements. …”
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Ag-Incentives: A global database monitoring agricultural incentives and distortions to inform better policies by CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets

“…In both developed and developing countries, governments often intervene in the agriculture sector to support development and to respond to political-economy pressures, using trade policies or price support for particular agricultural commodities. …”
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Harnessing Regional Frameworks for Weather, Water, and Climate Services in Africa Key to Securing its Climate Future by Amha, Yosef, Demissie, Teferi, Solomon, Dawit

“…Furthermore, its operationalization requires strong political will, good governance, and reasonable financial support. …”
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Assessing the accuracy of satellite radar altimetry for inland water level monitoring by Camici, S., Calmettes, B., Daguzé, J.-A., Piras, F., Thibaut, P., Amarnath, Giriraj, Femenias, P., Tarpanelli, A.

“…It plays an essential role for both society and the environment, and due to the many problems associated with ground hydrological monitoring networks, the measurement of inland waters represents a political and economic challenge. A viable alternative for deriving surface water information on a large scale is satellite Earth Observation, and in recent decades satellite altimetry has become an established method for providing water level measurements. …”
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Rol de las autoridades forestales de gobierno de Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala y El Salvador en el proceso de certificación de madera by Carrillo Martínez, Saúl A.

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Landskapsaspekten i åtgärdsvalsstudier by Nyström, Katharina

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Försörjning av vitamin E hos mjölkkor i ekologisk produktion by Sjöberg, Sofia

Bladyta och virkesproduktion i fullskiktad granskog skött med blädningsbruk by Edman, Elin

Cassava technology transfer in Indonesia by Dimyati, Ahmad

“…Economically and politically, cassava is considered less important than rice, soybean and maize. …”
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