Conservation of forests outside protected areas is essential for maintaining forest connectivity, which largely depends on the effectiveness of local institutions. In this study, we use Landsat data to explore the relationship between vegetation structure and forest management institutions, in order to assess the efficacy of local institutions in management of forests outside protected areas. T...

This commentary addresses the statement that “the authors believe that the HRH [Human Resources for Health] Program can serve as a model for other initiatives that seek to address the shortage of qualified health professionals in low-income countries and strengthen the long-term capacity of local academic institutions.” I adopt the position of the devil’s advocate and ask whether a country, wit...

This paper studies the dynamics by which populations with heterogeneous preferences for public good provision sort themselves into communities. I conduct laboratory experiments to consider which institutions best facilitate efficient self-organization when residents can move freely between locations. I find that institutions requiring all residents of a community to pay equal taxes enable subje...

In this article, local institutions for forest conservation and management are analysed. The discussion is based on data from 37 villages and 180 households randomly sampled from a protected area in Rajasthan, India. Local management institutions are described, factors affecting inter-village differences in management institutions and collective action are analysed in a logit model, and the imp...

We introduce a new model of membership query (MQ) learning, where the learning algorithm is restricted to query points that are close to random examples drawn from the underlying distribution. The learning model is intermediate between the PAC model (Valiant, 1984) and the PAC+MQ model (where the queries are allowed to be arbitrary points). Membership query algorithms are not popular among mach...

We use a new dataset from Burundi to analyze the role of local institutions as determinants of income, and distinguish between three distinct dimensions of the institutional framework: (i) property rights security, (ii) local political leadership and (iii) social capital. Using measures of conflict intensity during the civil war as instruments for local institutional quality, we demonstrate tha...

Although Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) are widely used in many settings little work has been done in studying their impact and benefits. This study provides empirical indicators on the performance of the WLANs implemented on Malaysian Institutions of Higher Learning Our research adopted Deming’s P-D-C-A Model and modified it to PlanImplement-Control-Evaluate (P-I-C-E) in establishing a p...

This Directory draws together the names of some of the leading officials in Tibetaninhabited areas in China. The names are selected from lists of leading officials in the government, as well as from the membership list of the three main institutions in China: the Communist Party, the People's Congress and the Chinese Peoples' Political Consultative Conference. The list includes leading Chinese ...

This study investigates the impacts of regional informal institutions and local governance arrangements on revenue growth both male- female-run firms in Vietnam. Utilizing institutional theory literature feminism, we argue that are responsive to different sets institutions. Analysing more than 1.1 million observations 11 years (2006–16), find benefit from collective action norms non-finance-rel...