[RAS] papers disappearing, "abdele problem"

[Thomas Krichel]

  Christian Zimmermann writes

> This is not the first time this happens: accepted papers get dropped from 
> profiles for no apparent reason and attempts to put them back in fail.
 
  I presume that means that they have no longer been in the database.

  It is this paper

Finance and poverty in Ethiopia: household level analysis
template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-name: Geda, Alemayehu
Author-name: Shimeles, Abebe
Author-name: Zerfu, Daniel
Title: Finance and Poverty in Ethiopia: A Household Level Analysis
Creation-Date: 2006
Number:  RP2006/51
Length: 26 pages
Keywords: finance, Ethiopia, Africa, poverty, consumption smoothing
File-URL: http://www.wider.unu.edu/stc/repec/pdfs/rp2006/rp2006-51.pdf
Handle: RePEc:unu:wpaper:RP2006-51


> It is only when I do a updareq that items are available again for
> claiming.  This has already happened several times for the AER.
>
> This time, it was RePEc:unu:wpaper


aras at nebka:/home/adrepec/RePEc/remo/unu/wpaper$ rech .
- rech v1.0.1 -- ReDIF files checker -
        by Ivan Kurmanov (kurmanov at openlib.org)

configuration: 
        redif.spec file   : /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/ReDIF/redif.spec
        redif.spec version: $revision$-5.8
        ReDIF home dir    : not identified
        local data dir    : 

No ReDIF home setting found/identified

Checking: .
going into directory: .
file ./wpaper4.rdf: OK (76)
file ./wpaper3.rdf: OK (90)
file ./wpaper5.rdf: OK (90)
file ./wpaper8.rdf: OK (107)
file ./wpaper2.rdf: OK (127)
file ./wpaper1.rdf: OK (147)
file ./wpaper9.rdf: OK (4)
file ./wpaper7.rdf: 
> template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 
> Title: Assessing the Aid Allocation and Debt Sustainability Framework: Working Towards Incentive Compatible Aid Contracts
> Creation-Date: 2007
> Number: UNU-WIDER Research Paper RP2007/33
> Length: 28 pages 
> Keywords: foreign aid, economic development, aid allocation, debt sustainability
> File-URL: http://www.wider.unu.edu/stc/repec/pdfs/rp2007/rp2007-33.pdf
> Handle: RePEc:unu:wpaper:RP2007-33
> Abstract: This paper criticizes the current International Development Association (IDA) aid allocation and debt sustainability framework on the grounds of their over-reliance on the country policy and institutional assessment (CPIA) as the guiding criterion. It argues that CPIA-centred allocation of aid fails to introduce an incentives structure supportive of a genuine donor-recipient partnership, conducive to development. Further, it claims that the CPIA-dependent debt thresholds-central to the new debt sustainability framework-effectively submit sustainability concerns to the policy performance prerogatives of the aid allocation system. Resting on a thin empirical basis, such approach fails to take due account of low-income countries' vulnerability to exogenous shocks, as a key determinant of debt distress. As an alternative to the current CPIA-based scheme, the paper outlines the key features of a state-contingent mechanism, guiding both aid allocation and debt sustainability analysis.
> 

Error (line 462): Required attribute 'author-name' is absent in template of type 'redif-paper 1.0'

file ./wpaper6.rdf: OK (165)


  I doubt the problem is there. But it could be that, for
  example, they change a handle, but the file date is not
  changed, and the file size is not changed, and the update
  is not often enough despite this. Here is a significant
  change I made in 


#
# RePEc:
/home/aras/acis/bin/updareq RePEc / 31556926
# ACIS userdata:
/home/aras/acis/bin/updareq ACIS / 31556926
# citec:
/home/aras/acis/bin/updareq citec / 31556926


  31556926 is, roughly the number of seconds in a year.
  Ivan had this set to the number of secords in a week,
  meaning that nebka's rid crawled through the entire RePEc
  once a week, a considerable load on the machine. 
  So I reduced this to once a year, a drastic reduction.
  I made that change at the time we had the i/o problem
  that was due to a broken disk and that you claimed came
  from overusing the disk.

  Maybe these numbers should be set to once a month.


  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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