Search Results - computational finance
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Including women in the policy responses to high oil prices: A case study of South Africa
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2021 Social Accounting Matrix for Rwanda: A Nexus Project SAM
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From complexity to clarity: A climate security vulnerability measure for policymaking
Published 2023“…The CGIAR Focus Climate Security and The Alan Turing Institute’s Computational Social Science Group's collaboration addresses the need for a reliable and efficient approach to decision-making and policy development by developing an innovative analytical framework to construct a systemic measure that analyzes structural features among key components of the climate security nexus, to support contextualized and climate security-sensitive decisions for policies, programs, or finance.…”
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On measuring indebtedness of African countries
Published 2007“…Since the 1950s, export credits have been an important source of finance in most African countries, where they allow more to be invested with less sacrifice of current consumption. …”
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FarmDrive, a win-win system
Published 2015“…African smallholder farmers face a recurring problem of access to finance and credit. Financial institutions, for their part, do not have access to many potential customers, considered as too risky. …”
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Methods for the quantification of emissions at the landscape level for developing countries in smallholder contexts
Published 2012“…There is therefore an opportunity for smallholders not only to gain environmental benefits from carbon friendly practices, but also to receive much needed financial input, either directly from carbon financing, or from development agencies looking to support carbon friendly activities. …”
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First External Management Review of CIAT, 1984
Published 1984“…One area for improvement was working relationships between researchers and the finance and administration staff. The panel recommended decentralization of operations among the latter, and changes with respect to the use of computers, internal auditing and the management of supplies. …”
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Adoption of grade cattle technology in Kenya: A combined farm-level and spatial approach.
Published 2000“…GIS-derived distances are computed and introduced in a duration model in order to control for market access. …”
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Ghana: Systematic analysis of world market and domestic production shocks
Published 2025“…A country-specific, economywide Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model then simulates the impacts of these shocks on both total and sector-specific economic outcomes, deriving changes in poverty and undernourishment for each shock scenario. …”
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Brazil digital tool review for agroecological transitions
Published 2023“…Exclusion criteria included tools that: (i) solely related to precision agriculture (e.g., agricultural drones, in-field sensors, variable rate input application technology, etc.), (ii) solely related to market access or digital finance, and (iii) did not provide enough information online. …”
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Evaluating transfer programs within a general equilibrium framework
Published 2001“…The authors set out a general equilibrium model for the evaluation of a domestically financed transfer program, which helps to combine the results from a computable general equilibrium model with disaggregated household data.Using a Mexican cash transfer program as an illustration, they use the approach to show that the substantial welfare gains that result from the switch from universal food subsidies to targeted cash transfers reflect both the improved targeting efficiency of the latter as well as a relaxation of the trade-off between equity and efficiency objectives when designing tax systems.…”
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Evaluating transfer programs within a general equilibrium framework
Published 2001“…The authors set out a general equilibrium model for the evaluation of a domestically financed transfer program, which helps to combine the results from a computable general equilibrium model with disaggregated household data.Using a Mexican cash transfer program as an illustration, they use the approach to show that the substantial welfare gains that result from the switch from universal food subsidies to targeted cash transfers reflect both the improved targeting efficiency of the latter as well as a relaxation of the trade-off between equity and efficiency objectives when designing tax systems.…”
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Evaluating transfer programs within a general equilibrium framework
Published 2004“…The authors set out a general equilibrium model for the evaluation of a domestically financed transfer program, which helps to combine the results from a computable general equilibrium model with disaggregated household data.Using a Mexican cash transfer program as an illustration, they use the approach to show that the substantial welfare gains that result from the switch from universal food subsidies to targeted cash transfers reflect both the improved targeting efficiency of the latter as well as a relaxation of the trade-off between equity and efficiency objectives when designing tax systems.…”
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Virtual migration through online freelancing: Evidence from Bangladesh
Published 2021“…We also highlight the constraints to this type of work: financing constraints for the high training cost, access to the necessary work infrastructure, and soft skills requirements to succeed in the market. …”
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Out-of-pocket health payments: A catalyst for agricultural productivity growth, but with potentially impoverishing effects
Published 2015“…This paper analyses the relationship between health expenditures and productivity in Senegal by using a dynamic recursive Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model that has been run from 2011 to 2020. …”
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