productivity, lower high transportation and rural transfer costs, increase rural employment, integrate remote and lower …

-term sources of employment and long-term generators of growth and productivity increases. They can be designed cost-effectively to …Employment programs, particularly labor-intensive public works (LIPW), have a long history in Sub-Saharan Africa … experienced sharp declines in employment and real wages. Labor-intensive public works have the potential to serve as both short …

for technology transfer and productivity growth. This paper compiles diverse spatial data on biophysical conditions …

rice productivity at a relatively late stage in Asia’s Green Revolution, as well as unheralded progress against …

livelihood. This report provides an overview of current knowledge of the impact of health issues on farm-level productivity and … productivity and poor health. At the household level, the investment in health can improve resilience and enhance the ability to … productivity, health, and resilience of farm households. …

Taking advantage of a unique quasi-experi-mental survey design, this study analyzes the productivity impacts of the … envelopment analysis-based Malmquist-type productivity index to decompose productivity differences into (1) within-group farm …