the value of wetlands is receiving increasing attention and the cost–benefit analyses (cba) is essential to evaluate the long-term effects of wetland rehabilitation projects. in order to guarantee the water quality of the south-to-north water diversion project of china (east route), the government of shandong province started a huge lakeshore wetland rehabilitation project in 2008. the cba appr...

TOBIAS WÜNSCHER (corresponding author), email: [email protected], tel. 3 +49 (0)228 73 1851, fax. +49 (0)228 73 1869 4 5 MERCELYNE KHALUMBA, email: [email protected] 6 7 KARIN HOLM-MÜLLER , email: [email protected] 8 9 MIRJAM BÜDENBENDER, email: [email protected] 10 11 Center for Development Research, University of Bonn, Walter-Flex-Str. 3, 53227 ...

We assess the additional forest cover protected by 13 rural communities located in the southern state of Chiapas, Mexico, as a result of the economic incentives received through the country's national program of payments for biodiversity conservation. We use spatially explicit data at the intra-community level to define a credible counterfactual of conservation outcomes. We use covariate-matchi...

The leading direct cause of the loss of biodiversity is habitat alteration and disruption. If we are to address this cause directly, we need to find ways of changing the behavior of rural people. Experience has shown that this is done most effectively through the use of economic instruments, ranging from taxes that discourage over-exploitation, to direct payments for conservation activities car...

The development of rural areas cannot be separated from the support industries, while integration three industries is direction industrial development. Developed countries have achieved new through industries. China has a comprehensive victory in poverty eradication, and played an important role promoting it. Further grasp bridging eradication revitalization. Therefore, sorting out theories pra...

Large-scale agricultural land acquisitions might entail substantial welfare implications for the affected rural population. Whether the impacts are indeed as devastating as the popular notion of “land grabs” would suggest depends on a number of factors, including the size of compensation payments, productivity spillovers on smallholders, employment opportunities for displaced farmers, and chang...

The rural e-payment market in China is becoming one of the important topics research field because its contribution to efficiency fund flows economy. Further development mainly depends on partners’ acceptance. In March 2020, 776.08 million people were using mobile payments China. After COVID-19 pandemic China, Payment and Clearing Association launched an action encourage citizens use payments. ...

Recent welfare reforms, designed to move adult welfare recipients into employment, promise to add 10 to 15 percent to labor forces in rural and agricultural areas of California with average annual unemployment rates of 12 to 20 percent. This paper develops and estimates a simultaneous-equation model to test the hypothesis that high unemployment and seasonality endemic to rural and agricultural ...

Sameer is a farmer who subsists on three acres in rural India. While much of the land is fertile, nearly 50% of his income goes towards just the interest payments from money-lender loans, loans which are necessary to finance the crops he plants. Moreover, some of his land is unused because he cannot profitably finance irrigation at the money-lender’s rates (5 to 10% per month). As a result, his...

The author estimates the potential impact of the accession of seven Balkan countries (Albania, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey) to the EU on the agricultural direct payments and rural development expenditures disbursed from the EU budget. The estimation is based on the assumption that the agricultural support to GDP ratios are similar across member stat...