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the household balance sheet, i.e. liabilities and assets. Additionally, we allow the influence of social interaction on … types of debt and financial assets held conditional on holding the different types of debt and assets. The analysis suggests … assets and liabilities. Our analysis also suggests that social interaction is associated with households holding larger …
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This paper analyses coping strategies and consumption reactions of rural households in Nicaragua to hurricane Mitch, which caused massive losses in especially the agricultural sector in 1998. A switching-regression model confirms theoretical considerations which indicate that responses to...
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the rural space. This paper characterizes household access to assets and agrarian institutions of households engaged in … agricultural-specific assets (including land and livestock) and institutions is in general low, though highly heterogeneous across …
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national tests at the end of primary school. This shows that school resources have an important role to play in improving …
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taken a major step towards the process of identification of its own resources in order to create the necessary basis for the …
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This communication aims at the analysis of the construction process of territorial resources which allowed the local … system of production / processing of shallot to remain on the Dogon plateau. Complex resources, putting in relation specific … appropriation and the collective management of the new resources built by the IG. …
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In this paper I survey the recent economics of education literature in order to identify which education policies can effectively improve the quality of primary schooling, as measured by pupil test-based achievements. Particular attention is devoted to the experience of England, a country which...
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educational outcomes. Yet changing the level of resources is one of the key policy levers open to governments. In the UK, school …
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The strategies and policies of agricultural and rural development, within the overall long-term area development, traditionally lean on natural-resource capital and certain differential-rent advantages. New dimensions of the agricultural and rural multifunctionality of areas in the zones of...
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sustainability of small farms is linked to economic, social and human resources. In this way the study shows the important part … disappear. The mobilisation of the farm household’s internal resources combined with the positive impacts of the “local dairy …
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