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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Jasper Meya (University of Oldenburg): Inter- and intragenerational distribution and the valuation of natural capital - This paper studies how the intra- and intergenerational distribution of income affects the economic valuation of non-use environmental public goods... -
Rolf Groeneveld (ENR): Welfare economics and wicked problems in wet environments - Marine and coastal governance has been characterised as a ‘wicked’ problem: unlike ‘engineering’ problems, wicked problems... -
Carol Newman (Trinity College Dublin): Information delivery, nutrition and HIV treatment - Nutrition is a crucial component for individuals living with HIV and AIDS. This paper investigates whether the medium of delivery of nutrition... -
Lars Hein (Environmental System Analysis, WUR): The System of Environmental Economic Accounting - The SEEA Central framework has been broadly used to account for stocks and uses of non-renewable (and some renewable) resources. In the Netherlands,... -
The Foundations of Info-Metrics Information-Theoretic Methods of inference - 3 ECTS - This course aims to provide a basic understanding of selected Mathematical concepts that many branches of science relies on. The topics will be...
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XXI ANNUAL BIOECON CONFERENCE on 11-13 September 2019
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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Shocks, insurance and welfare : Evidence from field experiments in Ethiopia
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Robert Lensink, co-promotor(en): Marcel van Asseldonk. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789463435925 - p.
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The effect of land tenure governance on technical efficiency : evidence from three provinces in eastern China
Applied Economics 51 (2019)22. - ISSN 0003-6846 - p. 2337 - 2354.
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Perceptions of Land Tenure Security in Rural China : The Impact of Land Reallocations and Certification
Society & Natural Resources (2019). - ISSN 0894-1920
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Better soils for healthier lives? An econometric assessment of the link between soil nutrients and malnutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa
PLoS ONE 14 (2019)1. - ISSN 1932-6203
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Do incentives matter when working for god? The impact of performance-based financing on faith-based healthcare in Uganda
World Development 113 (2019). - ISSN 0305-750X - p. 309 - 319.