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Using contingent valuation in the design of payments for environmental services mechanisms: a review and assessment 在设计环境服务支付机制时使用条件估值:审查和评估
IF 8.1 1区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2012-08-01 DOI: 10.1093/WBRO/LKS004
D. Whittington, S. Pagiola
As the use of payments for environmental services (PES) programs for conservation has grown in developing countries, the use of stated preference methods, particularly contingent valuation (CV) surveys, to estimate the maximum amount that users of environmental services (buyers) would be willing to pay has also increased. This paper reviews 25 CV studies conducted in the context of PES programs (CV-PES) and assesses their quality and usefulness for designing PES programs. Almost all these studies attempt to estimate the demand of downstream water users for up-stream watershed protection and, more generally, for improved water services. Most studies were methodologically uninspired and generally low-quality applications of stated preference methods, with limited policy relevance. The quality and usefulness of CV-PES studies could be substantially improved at only a modest increase in costs.
随着发展中国家越来越多地使用环境服务支付(PES)方案进行保护,使用声明偏好方法,特别是条件评估(CV)调查,来估计环境服务用户(买家)愿意支付的最大金额也有所增加。本文综述了在PES项目背景下进行的25项CV研究(CV-PES),并评估了它们的质量和对PES项目设计的有用性。几乎所有这些研究都试图估计下游用水者对上游流域保护的需求,以及更一般地说,对改善供水服务的需求。大多数研究在方法上缺乏灵感,通常是对既定偏好方法的低质量应用,政策相关性有限。CV-PES研究的质量和有用性只要稍微增加费用就可以大大提高。
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引用次数: 89
What Can We Learn about the “Resource Curse” from Foreign Aid? 从对外援助中学到什么“资源诅咒”?
IF 8.1 1区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2012-02-01 DOI: 10.1093/WBRO/LKQ013
Kevin Morrison
A large body of literature has arisen in economics and political science analyzing the apparent "resource curse"--the tendency of countries with high levels of natural resources to exhibit worse economic and political outcomes. The author examines the purported causal mechanisms underlying this "curse" and shows that they all center on the revenue that these resources generate for the government. As such, it is not surprising that the most recent literature on the topic has demonstrated that, in the hands of a competent government, natural resources have no negative consequences and may actually have positive effects. The important question therefore is: What can be done in countries without effective governments? Policy proposals have centered on (a) taking the resources out of the hands of the government or (b) having the government commit to use the funds in certain ways. Neither of these has been particularly successful, which we might have predicted from research on another important nontax revenue source for developing countries: foreign aid. The close parallels between the foreign aid and "resource curse" literatures are reviewed, as are the lessons from the aid literature. These lessons suggest the need for an important change in approach toward poorly governed resource-rich countries. Copyright 2012, Oxford University Press.
在经济学和政治学领域,已经出现了大量的文献来分析明显的“资源诅咒”——自然资源丰富的国家往往表现出更糟糕的经济和政治结果。作者研究了这种“诅咒”背后的所谓因果机制,并表明它们都集中在这些资源为政府带来的收入上。因此,关于这一主题的最新文献表明,在一个有能力的政府手中,自然资源不会产生负面影响,实际上可能会产生积极影响,这并不奇怪。因此,重要的问题是:在缺乏有效政府的国家,我们能做些什么?政策建议集中在(a)将资源从政府手中夺走或(b)让政府承诺以某种方式使用这些资金。这两种方法都不是特别成功,我们可以从对发展中国家另一个重要的非税收入来源——外援的研究中预测到这一点。回顾了外援与“资源诅咒”文献之间的密切相似之处,以及从援助文献中吸取的教训。这些教训表明,有必要对治理不善的资源丰富国家的做法进行重大改变。牛津大学出版社版权所有。
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引用次数: 58
Impact Analysis of Rural Electrification Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa 撒哈拉以南非洲农村电气化项目影响分析
IF 8.1 1区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2012-02-01 DOI: 10.1093/WBRO/LKQ008
Tanguy Bernard
The author reviews trends in rural electrification over the past 30 years in Sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, it is shown that motivations for rural electrification programs have evolved significantly over the years, following changes in development paradigms. The author finds, that knowledge of the impact of this has only marginally improved: low connection rates and weak productive utilization identified in the 1980s remain true today, and impacts on such dimensions as health, education, or income, though often used to justify projects, are largely undocumented. Indeed impact evaluations are methodologically challenging in the field of infrastructures and have been limited thus far. Nevertheless examples of recent or ongoing impact evaluations of rural electrification programs offer promising avenues for identifying both the effect of electricity per se and the relative effectiveness of approaches to promoting it.
作者回顾了过去30年撒哈拉以南非洲农村电气化的趋势。特别是,随着发展模式的变化,农村电气化计划的动机多年来发生了重大变化。作者发现,对这一影响的认识只是略有改善:1980年代确定的低接入率和低生产利用率今天仍然存在,对健康、教育或收入等方面的影响虽然经常被用来证明项目的正当性,但在很大程度上没有记录。事实上,影响评价在方法上对基础设施领域具有挑战性,迄今为止受到限制。然而,最近或正在进行的农村电气化项目影响评估的例子为确定电力本身的影响和促进电气化的方法的相对有效性提供了有希望的途径。
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引用次数: 192
Comments on “New Structural Economics” by Justin Yifu Lin 林毅夫《新结构经济学》述评
IF 8.1 1区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2011-08-01 DOI: 10.1093/WBRO/LKR010
A. Krueger
Ever since development economics became a field, there has been a search for “the” key to development. Physical capital accumulation, human capital, industrial development, institutional quality, social capital, and a variety of other factors have been the focus at one time or another. As each became the focal point, there was a parallel explicit or implied role of government. If I understand Justin Lin correctly, he is saying that the “new structural economics” (NSE) accepts that earlier thought ignored comparative advantage, which should be market determined, but that growth requires improvements in ‘hard’ (tangible) and ‘soft’ (intangible) infrastructure at each stage. Such upgrading and improvements require coordination and inhere with large externalities to firms' transaction costs and returns to capital investment. Thus, in addition to an effective market mechanism, the government should play an active role in facilitating structural change (p. 206). He seems also to believe that growth depends almo...
自从发展经济学成为一个领域以来,人们一直在寻找发展的“钥匙”。物质资本积累、人力资本、产业发展、制度质量、社会资本以及其他各种因素都曾成为人们关注的焦点。当每一个都成为焦点时,就有一个平行的或明或暗的政府角色。如果我对林毅夫的理解正确的话,他的意思是“新结构经济学”(NSE)承认早期的思想忽略了比较优势,这应该由市场决定,但增长需要在每个阶段改善“硬”(有形)和“软”(无形)基础设施。这种升级和改进需要协调,并且对企业的交易成本和资本投资回报具有很大的外部性。因此,除了有效的市场机制外,政府还应该在促进结构变革方面发挥积极作用(第206页)。他似乎也相信经济增长取决于……
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引用次数: 8
Comments on “New Structural Economics” by Justin Yifu Lin 林毅夫《新结构经济学》述评
IF 8.1 1区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2011-08-01 DOI: 10.1093/WBRO/LKR008
D. Rodrik
Justin Lin wants to make structuralist economics respectable again, and I applaud him for that. He wants to marry structuralism with neoclassical economic reasoning, and I applaud this idea too. So he has two cheers from me. I withhold my third cheer so I can quibble with some of what he writes. The central insight of structuralism is that developing countries are qualitatively different from developed ones. They are not just radially shrunk versions of rich countries. In order to understand the challenges of under-development, you have to understand how the structure of employment and production—in particular the large gaps between the social marginal products of labor in traditional versus modern activities—is determined and how the obstacles that block structural transformation can be overcome. The central insight of neoclassical economics is that people respond to incentives. We need to understand the incentives of, say, teachers to show up for work and impart valuable skills to their students or of e...
林毅夫希望让结构主义经济学再次受到尊重,我为此为他鼓掌。他想把结构主义与新古典主义经济推理结合起来,我也赞同这个想法。所以我为他欢呼了两次。我忍住了第三次欢呼,这样我就可以对他写的一些东西吹毛求疵了。结构主义的核心观点是,发展中国家与发达国家在质量上存在差异。它们不只是富裕国家的缩小版。为了理解欠发达的挑战,你必须了解就业和生产的结构——特别是传统和现代活动中劳动的社会边际产品之间的巨大差距——是如何决定的,以及如何克服阻碍结构转变的障碍。新古典经济学的核心观点是,人们会对激励做出反应。比如,我们需要了解教师出勤、向学生传授宝贵技能的动机。
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引用次数: 31
Gender and the business environment for new firm creation 性别与新企业创建的商业环境
IF 8.1 1区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2011-08-01 DOI: 10.1093/WBRO/LKP032
Leora F. Klapper, S. Parker
The authors summarize the extant literature on the relationship between gender and entrepreneurship. They note significant quantitative gender differences in business entry, with male-owned firms heavily prevailing over firms owned by women in many parts of the world. They find that enterprises owned by men on the one hand and women on the other are generally concentrated in different sectors, women entrepreneurs being better represented in labor intensive sectors such as trade and services rather than capital intensive manufacturing industries. They also observe certain gender differentials in business survival and growth patterns. Yet an analysis of a large body of literature does not suggest that, in general, the so called "gender gap" in entrepreneurship can be explained by explicit discrimination in laws or regulations. Rather, differences in quantitative and qualitative indicators of business entry and performance can in part be explained by a number of business environment factors that disproportionately affect a woman's decision to operate a business in the formal sector. For example the concentration of women in low capital intensive industries--which require less funding and at the same time have a lower potential for growth and development--might also be driven by barriers against women regarding access to finance. Furthermore, women may have relatively less physical and "reputational" collateral than men, which limits their access to finance. Overall the literature suggests that improvements in the business environment can help promote high-growth female entrepreneurship. Copyright 2011, Oxford University Press.
作者总结了现有的关于性别与创业之间关系的文献。他们注意到,在进入企业方面存在着数量上的显著性别差异,在世界许多地方,男性拥有的公司远远超过女性拥有的公司。他们发现,男性和女性拥有的企业一般集中在不同的部门,妇女企业家在劳动密集部门,如贸易和服务,而不是资本密集的制造业中有更多的代表。他们还观察到,在企业生存和增长模式方面存在一定的性别差异。然而,对大量文献的分析并没有表明,一般来说,创业中所谓的“性别差距”可以用法律或法规中的明确歧视来解释。相反,进入企业和业绩的数量和质量指标的差异可以部分地解释为一些商业环境因素,这些因素不成比例地影响妇女在正规部门经营企业的决定。例如,妇女集中在资本密集程度较低的行业——这些行业需要的资金较少,同时增长和发展的潜力也较低——也可能是由于妇女在获得融资方面存在障碍所致。此外,与男性相比,女性可能拥有相对较少的物质和“声誉”抵押品,这限制了她们获得融资的机会。总体而言,这些文献表明,商业环境的改善有助于促进高增长的女性创业。牛津大学出版社版权所有。
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引用次数: 335
Rethinking Development Economics 重新思考发展经济学
IF 8.1 1区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2011-08-01 DOI: 10.1093/WBRO/LKR011
J. Stiglitz
Twelve years ago, when I was chief economist of the World Bank, I suggested that the major challenge to development economics was learning the lessons of the previous several decades: a small group of countries, mostly in Asia, but a few in other regions, had had phenomenal success, beyond anything that had been anticipated by economists; while many other countries had experienced slow growth, or even worse, stagnation and decline—inconsistent with the standard models in economics which predicted convergence. The successful countries had followed policies that were markedly different from those of the Washington Consensus, though they shared some elements in common; those policies had not brought high growth, stability, or poverty reduction. Shortly after I left the World Bank, the crisis in Argentina—which had been held up as the poster child of the country that had followed Washington Consensus policies—reinforced the doubts about that strategy. The global financial crisis, too, has cast doubt over the neoclassical paradigm in advanced industrial countries, and rightly so. Much of development economics had been viewed as asking how developing countries could successfully transition toward the kinds of market-oriented policy frameworks that came to be called “American style capitalism.” The debate was not about the goal, but the path to that goal, with some advocating “shock therapy,” while others focused on pacing and sequencing—a more gradualist tack. The global financial crisis has now raised questions about that model even for developed countries. In this short essay, I want to argue that the long-term experiences in growth and stability of both developed and less developed countries, as well as the deeper theoretical understanding of the strengths and limitations of market economies, provide support for a “new structural” approach to development—an approach
12年前,当我担任世界银行首席经济学家时,我曾提出,发展经济学面临的主要挑战是吸取过去几十年的经验教训:少数国家(主要在亚洲,但也有少数在其他地区)取得了惊人的成功,超出了经济学家的预期;而许多其他国家则经历了缓慢的增长,甚至更糟的是停滞和衰退——这与预测趋同的经济学标准模型不符。成功的国家所遵循的政策与华盛顿共识明显不同,尽管它们有一些共同之处;这些政策并没有带来高增长、稳定或减贫。在我离开世界银行后不久,阿根廷危机加剧了人们对这一战略的怀疑。阿根廷一直被视为遵循“华盛顿共识”政策的国家的典范。全球金融危机也让人们对发达工业国家的新古典主义范式产生了怀疑,这是理所当然的。许多发展经济学被认为是在询问发展中国家如何成功地过渡到后来被称为“美式资本主义”的市场导向政策框架。争论的重点不是目标,而是实现目标的途径,一些人提倡“休克疗法”,而另一些人则关注节奏和顺序——一种更渐进的方法。全球金融危机现在甚至对发达国家也提出了对这种模式的质疑。在这篇短文中,我想指出,发达国家和欠发达国家在增长和稳定方面的长期经验,以及对市场经济的优势和局限性的更深入的理论理解,为一种“新结构”的发展方法提供了支持
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引用次数: 34
Corporate governance and performance around the world : What we know and what we don't 全球公司治理与绩效:我们知道什么,不知道什么
IF 8.1 1区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2011-02-01 DOI: 10.1093/WBRO/LKP030
Inessa Love
This report surveys a vast body of literature devoted to evaluating the relationship between corporate governance and performance as measured by valuation, operating performance or stock returns. Most of the evidence to date suggests a positive association between corporate governance and various measures of performance. However, this line of research suffers from endogeneity problems that are difficult to resolve. There is no consensus yet on the nature of the endogeneity in governance-performance studies and this survey proposes an approach to resolve it. The emerging conclusion is that corporate governance is likely to develop endogenously and depend on specific characteristics of the firm and its environment.
本报告调查了大量致力于评估公司治理与业绩(以估值、经营业绩或股票回报衡量)之间关系的文献。迄今为止,大多数证据都表明,公司治理与各种绩效指标之间存在正相关关系。然而,这一行的研究遭受了难以解决的内生性问题。关于治理绩效研究中的内生性的性质尚未达成共识,本调查提出了解决这一问题的方法。新出现的结论是,公司治理可能是内生发展的,并取决于公司及其环境的具体特征。
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引用次数: 147
Urban Road Transportation Externalities: Costs and Choice of Policy Instruments 城市道路交通外部性:成本与政策工具选择
IF 8.1 1区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2011-02-01 DOI: 10.1093/WBRO/LKQ005
G. Timilsina, H. Dulal
Urban transportation externalities are a key development challenge. Based on the existing literature, the authors illustrate the magnitudes of various external costs, re view response policies, and measure and discuss their selection, particularly focusing on the context of developing countries. They find that regulatory policy instruments aimed at reducing local air pollution have been introduced in most countries in the world. On the other hand, fiscal policy instruments aimed at reducing congestion or greenhouse gas emissions are limited mainly to industrialized economies. Although traditional fiscal instruments, such as fuel taxes and subsidies, are normally introduced for other purposes, they can also help to reduce externalities. Land use or urban planning, and infrastructure investment, could also contribute to reducing externalities; but they are expensive and play a small role in already developed megacities. The main factors that influence the choice of policy instruments include economic efficiency, equity, country or city specific priority, and institutional capacity for implementation. Multiple policy options need to be used simultaneously to reduce effectively the different externalities arising from urban road transportation because most policy options are not mutually exclusive.
城市交通外部性是一项关键的发展挑战。在现有文献的基础上,作者说明了各种外部成本的大小,回顾了应对政策,并衡量和讨论了它们的选择,特别关注发展中国家的背景。他们发现,世界上大多数国家都采用了旨在减少当地空气污染的管制政策工具。另一方面,旨在减少拥堵或温室气体排放的财政政策工具主要限于工业化经济体。虽然燃油税和补贴等传统财政手段通常是为其他目的而采用的,但它们也有助于减少外部性。土地使用或城市规划以及基础设施投资也可能有助于减少外部性;但它们价格昂贵,而且在已经发达的特大城市中发挥的作用不大。影响政策工具选择的主要因素包括经济效率、公平、国家或城市的具体优先事项以及执行的机构能力。需要同时使用多种政策选择,以有效减少城市道路运输产生的不同外部性,因为大多数政策选择并不是相互排斥的。
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引用次数: 53
HIV Testing: Principles and Practice 艾滋病毒检测:原则和做法
IF 8.1 1区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2011-02-01 DOI: 10.1093/WBRO/LKP013
M. Gersovitz
Testing is a potentially important intervention to slow the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) epidemic in Africa and elsewhere. Some countries in Africa have achieved high levels of testing but most have not. Cost, price, and questions of confidentiality have limited the expansion of testing. It looks possible, however, that there are choices as to the design of testing programs that would expand the number of people who could know their HIV status in ways that would be worthwhile.
检测是减缓非洲和其他地区人类免疫缺陷病毒(HIV)流行的潜在重要干预措施。非洲一些国家已经实现了高水平的检测,但大多数国家没有。成本、价格和保密问题限制了检测的扩展。然而,在检测项目的设计上,似乎有可能存在一些选择,这些选择将以有价值的方式扩大了解自己艾滋病毒状况的人数。
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