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endogenous fertility. It is shown that development traps due to under investments in health can never appear when fertility is an …
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government invests in public health (Chakraborty, 2004) and the individual survival probability at the end of youth depends on … health expenditure through an S-shaped longevity function. This may give rise to four steady states and, hence, development …
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of weak altruism towards children. The government invests in public health, and an individual’s survival probability at … the end of youth depends on health expenditure. We show that multiple development regimes can exist. However, poverty or …, (ii) the government issues an amount of public debt. Interestingly, there also exists a couple child tax-health tax that …
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Radical changes took place with respect to several agricultural policies in Ethiopia in 1990-91. Different agricultural technologies were being delivered by several international agencies. Shifts in government policies and technological intervention would induce changes in the production...
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Physical resources such as land, labour and livestock, and nonphysical resources such as indigenous knowledge and institutions of producers in the grain surplus and deficit regions of the Central Highlands of Ethiopia are examined under situation of environmental and policy risks. Frequency...
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Agricultural information and indigenous knowledge were examined among peasants of the central Ethiopian highlands. Measures of central tendency, logical explanation, descriptive analysis, problem solving tests, scoring and logit analysis were performed. The findings indicate that information...
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Multidisciplinary research methods such as observatory, participatory and multivariate regression analysis were employed to examine goals and strategies of two peasant communities in the Central highlands of Ethiopia. Continuing the family tradition of participating in social networks is found...
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An aggregate measure of production efficiency involving crop and livestock enterprises is examined in the Selale and Ada regions of Ethiopia using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). In general, farmers in regions more suitable to crop production (Ada) tend to attain higher production efficiency...
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opportunity cost of bearing children and, hence, stimulates (depresses) fertility. The policy implications are straightforward … internalise the externality of children, while also representing a Pareto improvement. …
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By assuming that grandparents take care of grandchildren, in this paper we aim at studying the effects of longevity on economic growth in the basic OLG model with endogenous fertility. We show that a rise in longevity can actually reduce long-run growth. Moreover, we also find that an increasing...
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