Development Economics Group
The mission of the Development Economics Group (DEC) is to contribute to an improved understanding of the processes of sustainable development, institutions, conflict and poverty alleviation. To this end, DEC selects teaching material and focuses on research that can shed light on the dynamics of factor productivity and resource use in developing countries.
Agenda
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Bjorn van Campenhout (KU Leuven, IFPRI): Designing for effectiveness and inclusivity in video-enable agricultural extension - In agricultural extension programs, seemingly small design attributes — the way the information is delivered, who delivers the information, or... -
José Zofio (U Autonoma de Madrid and U Rotterdam): Introducing Economic Inefficiency Measurement with Bad Outputs - In this study we introduce the measurement of environmental inefficiency from an economic perspective that integrates, in addition to marketed good... -
Daniel Slunge (U Göteborg): Market-based instruments in chemicals management, a good idea or not? - Many chemical substances cause significant diffuse emissions when emitted over wide areas at individually low concentrations. These emissions are... -
An anatomy of colonial states and fiscal regimes in Portuguese Africa: Long-term transformations in Angola and Mozambique, 1850s-1970s K (Kleoniki) Alexopoulou Giannakitsa MSc
Highlights
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Erwin Bulte gekozen als lid KNAW - De KNAW heeft de Wageningse hoogleraar prof. Erwin Bulte gekozen als lid. Naast hem zijn nog twee Wageningse hoogleraren gekozen: prof. John van der... -
Call for Papers: 2018 Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries - We are pleased to announce that the 2018 Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries (SEEDEC) will be held on 19 and 20 April at the...
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Latest publications
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Specialised sweetpotato vine multiplication in lake zone, Tanzania : What “sticks” and what changes?
Open Agriculture 2 (2017)1. - ISSN 2391-9531 - p. 64 - 69.
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Prenatal temperature shocks reduce cooperation : Evidence from public goods games in Uganda
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 11 (2017). - ISSN 1662-5153
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The impact of a household biogas programme on energy use and expenditure in East Java
Energy Economics 68 (2017). - ISSN 0140-9883 - p. 66 - 76.
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Effect of Farmers’ Multidimensional Beliefs on Adoption of Biofortified Crops : Evidence from Sweetpotato Farmers in Tanzania
Journal of Development Studies (2017). - ISSN 0022-0388 - 16 p.
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Diffusion of treatment in social networks and mass drug administration
Nature Communications 8 (2017)1. - ISSN 2041-1723