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Kin Transfers as Safety Nets in Response to Idiosyncratic and Correlated Shocks
Herskowitz, Sylvan Rene; Kleemans, Marieke; Pulido, … - 2022
While formal insurance is widespread in much of the developed world, households in lower-income countries continue to rely heavily on informal risk-sharing networks when faced with unexpected shocks. Kin networks of non-coresident family members may play an important role by providing each other...
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Mating Competition and Entrepreneurship : Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan
Chang, Simon; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2013
We use a natural experiment in Taiwan to test whether mating competition is a major motive for entrepreneurship. With the defeat of the Kuomintang Party in China, more than one million soldiers and civilians, mainly young males, retreated to Taiwan in the late 1940s. Initially, the soldiers were...
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Measuring Postharvest Losses at the Farm Level in Malawi
Ambler, Kate - 2017
groundnut — among 1,200 households in Malawi. Farmers answered a detailed questionnaire designed to learn about losses during …
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Understanding Compliance in Programs Promoting Conservation Agriculture : Modeling a Case Study in Malawi
Ward, Patrick - 2016
. To combat these challenges, conservation agriculture (CA) is widely promoted as a sustainable package of agricultural … adoption in southern Malawi. Unlike what is implicitly assumed when these packages of practices are introduced, farmers view …
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NAIP Toolkit for Malabo Domestication : Economic Modeling of Agricultural Growth and Investment Strategy Case Study of Kenya
Fofana, Ismael - 2019
development of agricultural strategies by expanding the number of commitments and goals under the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture … agricultural investments.Third, the microeconomic analysis builds upon statistical economic modeling to allow direct measurement … and simulation of the Malabo goals on poverty and hunger. The modeling framework is applied to Kenya using the most recent …
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Government Expenditures in Kenya, 1950–2014 : Determinants and Agricultural Growth Effects
Benin, Samuel; Odjo, Sunday - 2019
Annual data on Kenya from 1950 to 2014 are used to analyze the determinants of the level and composition of government … expenditures for six functions (general administration, defense, education, health, agriculture, and other economic functions …
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Public Account and Coding System in Kenya : The Trend and Pattern of Agricultural Expenditure
Yu, Bingxin - 2015
This paper is part of a set of country case studies that take a detailed look at public expenditures in agriculture and …/2011, this paper first reviews the institutional arrangement and budgeting process in Kenya, followed by a description of the … structure of public expenditure account in Kenya. The expenditure data are aggregated according to clearly delineated …
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Measuring Women's Disempowerment in Agriculture in Pakistan
Ahmad, Nuzhat - 2016
Pakistan performs poorly with respect to gender equality, women's empowerment, and other gender-related indicators. Few studies in Pakistan measure the multiple dimensions of empowerment along which women are marginalized or disenfranchised, particularly in the country's rural areas. Even fewer...
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Agriculture Support Services in Malawi : Direct Effects, Complementarities, and Time Dynamics
Ambler, Kate - 2018
Using a randomized controlled trial, we examine the impacts of cash and input transfers, and a cross-randomized program of intensive agricultural extension over two years. We find large effects on the total value of agricultural production from the transfers (both cash and inputs) in both years....
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Modeling the Effectiveness of the Lead Farmer Approach in Agricultural Extension Service Provision : Nationally Representative Panel Data Analysis in Malawi
Ragasa, Catherine - 2019
The lead farmer (LF) approach has been implemented and heavily promoted nationwide in Malawi since 2009 to support … Malawi widely adopted the LF approach, indicating positive roles and contributions of LFs. However, national data show …. This is complemented by 55 focus group discussions and in-depth interviews with agricultural extension development officers …
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