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Agricultural extension and technology adoption for food security : evidence from Uganda

Pan, Yao; Smith, Stephen C.; Sulaiman, Munshi - 2015

This paper evaluates causal impacts of a large-scale agricultural extension program for smallholder women farmers on food security in Uganda through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an arbitrary distance-to-branch threshold for village program eligibility. We find eligible farmers...

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Sectoral linkage in the Ethiopian economy : a social accounting matrix multiplier analysis

Kebede, Selamawit G.; Heshmati, Almas - 2023

and total linkages of the industry with the agriculture and service sectors. The import penetration and export intensity … of the agriculture-based industry and the manufacturing industry are also discussed. The study used the Ethiopian Social …. The results show that agriculture has a relatively strong linkage with other sectors while the agriculture-based industry …

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A review of the circular economy and its implementation

Heshmati, Almas - 2015

Circular economy (CE) is a sustainable development strategy that is being proposed to tackle urgent problems of environmental degradation and resource scarcity. CE's 3R principles are to reduce, reuse and recycle materials. The principles account for a circular system where all materials are...

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Foreign investment, corporate ownership, and development : are firms in emerging markets catching up to the world standard?

Sabirianova Peter, Klara (contributor); … - 2005

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies,...

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Alternative composite Lisbon development strategy indices

Heshmati, Almas (contributor); Oh, Jong-Eun (contributor) - 2005

This study addresses the measurement of two composite Lisbon strategy indices that quantifies the level and patterns of development for ranking countries. The first index is nonparametric labelled as Lisbon strategy index (LSI). It is composed of six components: general economics, employment,...

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Modernization of agriculture and long-term growth

Yang, Dennis Tao; Zhu, Xiaodong - 2010

from stagnation to growth. When agriculture relies on traditional technology, industrial development reduces the relative …

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Geography vs. institutions at the village level

Grimm, Michael (contributor); Klasen, Stephan (contributor) - 2008

There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity cannot...

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The effects of the Vietnam Hunger Eradication and Poverty Reduction program on schooling

Bertoni, Marco; Quynh Huynh; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2019

This paper studies the effects of the Vietnam Hunger Eradication and Poverty Reduction (HEPR) program on school …

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The impact of parental health on children's schooling and labour force participation : evidence from Vietnam

Mendolia, Silvia; Nguyen, Thi; Yerokhin, Oleg - 2017

This paper investigates the relationship between parental health shocks and children's engagement in education and labour market, using a panel data survey of Vietnamese families, interviewed between 2004 and 2008. While there is substantial evidence showing the intergenerational transmission of...

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Human trafficking in Southeast Asia : results from a pilot project in Vietnam

Dinh, Ngan; Hughes, Conor; Hughes, James W.; … - 2014

statistically useful data. In this paper we present the results of a pilot study run in rural Vietnam with the aim of overcoming …

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