Recent Publications
An Assessment of Mexico’s Payment for Environmental Services Program
Alex-Garcia, Jennifer, Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet, and Juan Manuel Torres. 2005. An Assessment of Mexico's Payment for Environmental Services Program. FAO report.
2005-02-01Measuring the Poverty Reduction Potential of Land in Mexico
Finan Frederico , Elisabeth Sadoulet, and Alain de Janvry. 2005. "Measuring the Poverty Reduction Potential of Land in Mexico", Journal of Development Economics 77(1), pp. 27-51.
2005-02-01To help inform the current debate on the role of land as an instrument for poverty reduction, we analyze the conditions under which access to land reduces poverty in Mexican rural communities. Semi-parametric regression results show that access to even a small plot of land can raise household welfare significantly. For smallholders, an additional hectare of land increases welfare on average by 1.3 times the earnings of an agricultural worker. In addition, the marginal welfare value of land depends importantly on a household’s control over complementary assets such as education and on the context where assets are used such as road access.
Is a Friend in Need a Friend Indeed?
Goldstein, Markus Alain de Janvry, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2005. "Is a Friend in Need a Friend Indeed?" in Stephan Dercon (ed.) Insurance against Poverty, Oxford University Press.
2005-01-01Deterring Imperfectly Rational Actors: The Case of Drug Enforcement
Caulkins, J., & MacCoun, R. (2005). Deterring imperfectly rational actors: The case of drug enforcement (pp. 315-338). In Francesco Parisi and Vernon Smith (eds.), The law and economics of irrational behavior. University of Chicago Press.
2005-01-01WillInformationTechnology Reshape theNorth-South Asymmetry ofPower in theGlobal Political Economy?
Bussell, Jennifer and Steven Weber. Will Information Technology Reshape the North-South Asymmetry of Power in the Global Political Economy? in Studies in Comparative International Development, Vol. 40, No. 2, 2005.
2005-01-01Digital technologies are sufficiently disruptive to current ways of doing things to call into question assumptions about the “inevitability” or “natural state” of many economic processes and organizational principles. In particular, the impact of digital technologies on our conceptions of property rights has potentially dramatic implications for the North-South divide and the distribution of power in the global political economy. Drawing on recent experiences with open-source property rights regimes, we present two scenarios, the “imperialism of property rights” and the “shared global digital infrastructure,” to highlight how debates over property-rights could influence the development of the global digital infrastructure and, in turn, contribute to significantly different outcomes in global economic power.
All Globalization Is Local: Countervailing Forces And The Influence On Higher Education Markets
2005-01-01Globalization trends and innovations in the instructional technologies are widely believed to be creating new markets and forcing a revolution in higher education. Much of the rhetoric of globalists has presented a simplistic analysis of a paradigm shift in higher education markets and the way nations and institutions deliver educational services. This essay provides an analytical framework for understanding global influences on national higher education systems. It then identifies and discusses the countervailing forces to globalization that help to illuminate the complexities of the effects of globalization (including the General Agreement on Trade and Services) and new instructional technologies on the delivery and market for teaching and learning services. Globalization does offer substantial and potentially sweeping changes to national systems of higher education, but there is no uniform influence on nation-states or institutions. All globalization is in fact subject to local (or national and regional) influences.
Health Expenditure and Economic Growth: An International Perspective
. Scheffler, R.M. “Health Expenditure and Economic Growth: An International Perspective.” Occasional Papers on Globalization 1.10. University of South Florida Globalization Research Center (Nov. 2004).
2004-11-01Is Housing Unaffordable? Why Isn’t it More Affordable?
Quigley, John M., and Steven Raphael. "Is Housing Unaffordable? Why Isn't It More Affordable?" Journal of Economic Perspectives 18.1 (2004): 191-214.
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