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    <title>The Road to Pro-Poor Growth in Zambia: Past Lessons and Future Challenges</title>
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    <description>Title: The Road to Pro-Poor Growth in Zambia: Past Lessons and Future Challenges
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Wobst, Peter; Thurlow, James
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    <title>R&amp;D and private investment: How to conserve indigenous fruit biodiversity of Southern Africa</title>
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    <description>Title: R&amp;D and private investment: How to conserve indigenous fruit biodiversity of Southern Africa
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Waibel, Hermann; Wesseler, Justus; Mithöfer, Dagmar
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Indigenous fruits contribute widely to rural incomes in Southern Africa but their availability is declining. A domestication program aims to increase farm-household income and conserve biodiversity through farmer-led tree planting. Planting domesticated indigenous fruit trees is an uncertain, irreversible but flexible investment. Our analysis applies the real option approach using contingent claims analysis, which allows solving the discounting problem. The article analyses (1) to what level fruit collection cost and/or (2) the necessary technical change, i.e. breeding progress, have to rise in order to render tree planting economical, using data from income portfolios of rural households in Zimbabwe. Results currently show that collecting indigenous fruits is more profitable than planting the trees. A combination of technical change and decrease in resource abundance can provide incentives for farmer-led planting of domesticated trees and biodiversity conservation. However, breeding progress must be significant for investment in tree planting to be economically attractive.</description>
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    <title>Contesting Resources - Rent Seeking, Conflict and the Natural Resource Curse</title>
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    <description>Title: Contesting Resources - Rent Seeking, Conflict and the Natural Resource Curse
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Bulte, Erwin; Wick, Katharina
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: A growing empirical literature links natural resource abundance and "pointiness" to impeded economic growth and civil strife. We develop rent seeking and conflict models that capture the most salient features of contests for resource rents, and show how both resource abundance and geographical clustering can be associated with intense contests and sub-optimal economic performance. However, we also show that these relationships are not necessarily monotonous { pointiness can trigger more intense contests but can also facilitate the coordination on peaceful outcomes. Finally we show that contesting resources through violent conflict may yield superior outcomes (from an economy-wide perspective) than contests through rent seeking.</description>
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    <title>Exchange rate risk and economic reform: the case of endogenous institutional change in China</title>
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    <description>Title: Exchange rate risk and economic reform: the case of endogenous institutional change in China
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Veit, Wolfgang
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Over the past 15 years the mutual importance of institutional economics and development economics have grown strongly. This paper attempts to apply institutional analysis to issues of economic development by analysing China?s reform process after her accession to the WTO on the background of the hypothesis of vertically dependent institutions. It will be shown that institutions on a lower level (e.g. a fixed exchange rate regime) are dominated by higher level institutions like (e.g. laws governing firms, financial and labour markets). The latter are dominated by institutions on a higher level, for example by regulations governing the economic and political system. Consequently, economic policy options like a change in the exchange rate regime will depend on adjustments in areas ranging from constitutional to company law. In the second chapter, the concept of hierarchical institutions is introduced. In the third chapter, the general results of China?s recent trade liberalisation under WTO rules and the issue of a fixed exchange rate to the US Dollar are recounted. In the fourth chapter, reforms necessitated by China?s accession to the WTO, and reflected by the present exchange rate regime, are identified. This is followed by the analysis of institutions that are conducive to successful implementation of those reforms in China.</description>
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