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have the potential to positively influence the quantity and quality of women’s participation in agriculture in India …’s North Eastern Region. Women in agriculture in this part of the country, are going to get more and more employments both in … such empowerment in the institutional levels. This will brighten their access to new work avenues in agriculture in the …
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Abstract This paper is concerned with exploring some of the gender implications of certain long term trends which have … extent if any, they are in turn affected by gender. The paper concentrates on the following trends: - unprecedented growth of …
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Many of the present difficulties of the world economy have been blamed on the two oil-price explosions of the 1970s. Professor Chichilnisky shows that, at least in the case of the oil-importing developing countries, the negative effects have been overestimated. In fact, in some respects the oil...
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Agriculture sector plays a vital role in the world economy and provides food for every one of us. The World Trade … Organization (WTO) is important body in the international trade and agriculture. Surprisingly, the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA …) of WTO does not refer to food and agriculture at all. Agricultural subsidies and trade become controversial issues in the …
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creating Market Information Services for food and agriculture usually fail. The author distills experiences and lessons from …
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theory" and "Institutional economics" very harmful conceptual elements for political discourse. This article proposes to … paradigm in economics, the foundations of which were laid by John Commons, allows us to take another look at the institutions …
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R. Commons by putting the notion of ‘transaction’ in the centre of its study. The seventies were a period of appearance … costs economics’. In this way they have distorted totally the initial design of Commons’ institutional economics who saw the … philosophical foundation of neoclassical economic theory, he based his institutional economics on pragmatist philosophy of Charles S …
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We build a workable game of common-property resource extraction under rational Bayesian learning about the renewal prospects of a resource. We uncover the impact of exogenously shifting the prior beliefs of each player on the response functions of others. What we find about the role of...
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depend on inheritance rules on the commons. Motivated by the traditional management of the commons in the Italian Alps, we … present a model that fits the evolution of property rights observed over six centuries. Women’s rights over the commons were …
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In city districts in Rome, social and economic inequalities between centre and peripheral belts have been increasing over the last years, in parallel to the on-going suburban sprawl. Electoral data from 2000 to 2013 highlight sharp political polarization too. Votes for left-wing (right-wing)...
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