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"The rural nonfarm economy (RNFE) accounts for roughly 25 percent of full-time rural employment and 35-40 percent of rural incomes across the developing world. This diverse collection of seasonal trading, household-based and large-scale agroprocessing, manufacturing and service activities plays...
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-consistent covariance matrix estimator. Market imperfections in labor and land markets were found to affect land productivity. Land …
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other minor millet crops, which in many ways dependent on local markets for seed purposes. In this study, we have analyzed … variety use decisions, and the crop biodiversity levels take place within the context of local seed markets and a national …
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Recent findings in the growth literature suggest that developing countries need to keep a devalued exchange rate to stimulate their economic growth. Building on these findings, we econometrically evaluate to what ex-tent the real exchange rate of Pakistan has been aligned with its economic...
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input and output markets, going back decades before the period under review. Most significantly, in the wake of economic … reforms launched during the 1980s, it has withdrawn from most of the commodity markets except wheat. In other commodity … markets, intervention is by and large notional and without much practical involvement. The rolling back of the public sector …
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and the likely destinations of these products in national or international markets. Local collectors/farmers and dealers … were surveyed about their collection efforts, quantities collected, prices received, and resulting incomes. Herbal markets …
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