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Zambia - What Would it Take for Zambia???s Beef and Dairy Industries to Achieve Their Potential?

World Bank - 2012

Development Unit (AFTFP). This report explores the potential contribution that the beef and dairy industries could make to jobs … economy. This report explores the potential contribution that the beef and dairy industries could make to the government … large potential for developing its beef and dairy industries: the country could sustain more than double its current …

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Estimating household responses to trade reforms : net consumers and net producers in rural Mexico

Porto, Guido Gustavo - 2005

"This paper explores an empirical methodology to assess the impacts of trade reforms on household behavior in developing countries. It focuses on consumption and income responses: when price reforms take place, households modify consumption and production decisions and local labor markets...

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The economic consequences of health shocks

Wagstaff, Adam - 2005

"While there is a great deal of anecdotal evidence on the economic effects of adverse health shocks, there is relatively little hard empirical evidence. The author builds on recent empirical work to explore in the context of postreform Vietnam two related issues: (1) how far household income and...

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Financial Consumer Protection and Fintech : An Overview of New Manifestations of Consumer Risks and Emerging Regulatory Approaches

World Bank - 2022

This note provides: (1) an overview of new manifestations of consumer risks that are significant and cross-cutting across four key fintech products: digital microcredit, P2PL, investment-based crowdfunding, and e-money; and (2) examples of emerging regulatory approaches to target such risks....

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The Role of Consumer Consent in Open Banking : Financial Inclusion Support Framework

World Bank - 2021

Open banking schemes provide consumers with more choice and new financial products and services through the use of technology, particularly application programing interfaces (API's). The main objective of this paper is to provide guidance on how to implement consumer consent protocols to access...

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Public Sector-operated Price-comparison Websites : Case Studies and Good Practices

World Bank - 2013

This technical note is intended to provide regulators with concrete, practical information on operating price-comparison websites and the strategic considerations necessary to take into account when designing such sites. The technical note examines price-comparison websites operated by public...

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Domestic water pricing with household surveys : a study of acceptability and willingness to pay in Chongqing, China

Wang, Hua - 2008

"In determining domestic water prices, policy makers often need to use information about the demand side rather than only relying on information about the supply side. Household surveys have frequently been employed to collect demand-side information. This paper presents a multiple bounded...

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The value of mortality risk reductions in Delhi, India

Bhattacharya, Soma - 2006

"The authors interviewed commuters in Delhi, India, asking them to report their willingness to pay (WTP) to reduce their risk of dying in road traffic accidents in each of three scenarios that mirror the circumstances under which the majority of the road fatalities in Delhi occur. The WTP...

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The use of willingness to pay experiments : estimating demand for piped water connections in Sri Lanka

Van Houtven, George (contributor) - 2006

"The authors show how willingness to pay surveys can be used to gauge household demand for improved network water and sanitation services. They do this by presenting a case-study from Sri Lanka, where they surveyed approximately 1,800 households in 2003. Using multivariate regression, they show...

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Environment as cultural heritage : the Armenian diaspora's willingness-to-pay

Laplante, Benot - 2005

"Laplante, Meisner, and Wang present a study of willingness-to-pay of the Armenian Diaspora in the United States to protect Armenia's Lake Sevan, a unique and precious symbol of the Armenian cultural heritage. Dichotomous choice contingent valuation questions were asked in mail surveys to elicit...

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