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This dissertation includes three empirical essays on development economics and one on the economics of education. The first essay (co-authored by Stephan Klasen) is a contribution to the debate surrounding the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the on-going debate about what international...
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markets), for the period from January 1991 to December 2009. The empirical evidence is consistent with increased livestock …We measure if and to what extent livestock sales during food shortages affect the wealth value of livestock. For this … sales during food shortages, especially small livestock, and especially in the south. Results are robust for different ways …
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This paper presents an overview of the livestock sector in Central Asia using national statistics and field survey data …) enterprises. Few producers can supply quality livestock products at high volumes, leading some meat and milk processors to favour … have limited livestock productivity. Domestic fodder production is increasing in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, but is hindered …
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the livestock asset dynamics using both non-parametric and semi-parametric techniques to establish the shape of the asset … accumulation path and to determine whether multiple equilibria exist. More specifically, using tropical livestock units as a … measure of livestock accumulation over time, we show not only that these assets converge to a single equilibrium but that …
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welfare in the livestock sector, which is also linked to the future development of innovative technologies for a strategic …
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This study extends the recent debate on the rate of return on cattle rearing in India, triggered by Anagol, Etang, and Karlan (2017) and followed by others, to the Bangladeshi context and finds that the apparent paradox of widespread cattle rearing despite negative returns in India is absent in...
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Production of livestock, poultry, and dairy are private sector-led industries contributing a third of the agricultural …
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