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Improving Access to Savings Through Mobile Money : Experimental Evidence from African Smallholder Farmers
Batista, Catia - 2019
Investment in improved agricultural inputs is infrequent for smallholder farmers in Africa. One barrier may be limited access to formal savings. This is the first study to use a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of using mobile money as a tool to promote agricultural investment....
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Small-Scale Farming and Food Security : The Enabling Role of Cash Transfers in South Africa's Former Homelands
von Fintel, Dieter - 2016
Cash transfers successfully alleviate poverty in many developing countries. South Africa is a case in point, implementing one of the largest unconditional cash transfer programmes internationally, and with substantial benefits to household well-being along multiple dimensions. Yet, grants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978169
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Rainfall Risk and Fertility : Evidence from Farm Settlements During the American Demographic Transition
Grimm, Michael - 2016
Fertility is a main driver and outcome of long-term growth. Yet, fertility may not only interact with the level of income but also with its volatility. In pre-modern economies where formal social security was largely absent, fertility decisions may also have been made in view of insuring income...
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Entrepreneurship and the Reallocation of African Farmers
Naudé, Wim - 2015
African agriculture's importance for sustainable development is well appreciated. Indeed, recent years have seen a … physical resources across occupations and space, and without which agriculture and industrial development, and hence structural … agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011139
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After the Farm Crisis : Religiosity in the Rural United States
Orman, Wafa Hakim - 2013
agriculture. Chen (2010) describes increased religiosity in Indonesia following the 1998 financial crisis, and this paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077334
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Producer Protection Legislation and Termination Damages in the Presence of Contracting Frictions
Wu, Steven Y. - 2009
This study models producer protection legislation that would grant growers the right to claim damages (PPLD) if their contracts are prematurely terminated. In the absence of contracting frictions that prevent contractors from redesigning contracts to accommodate exogenous policy changes, PPLD...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156403
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Gender Bias in Agricultural Child Labor : Evidence from Survey Design Experiments
Galdo, Jose; Dammert, Ana; Abebaw, Degnet - 2021
Agricultural labor accounts for the largest share of child labor worldwide. Yet, measurement of farm labor statistics is challenging due to its inherent seasonality, variable and irregular work schedules, and the varying saliences of individuals' work activities. The problem is further...
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Agricultural Credits and Agricultural Productivity : Cross-Country Evidence
Seven, Unal - 2020
We present cross-country evidence suggesting that agricultural credits have a positive impact on agricultural productivity. In particular, we find that doubling agricultural credits generates around 4-5 percent increase in agricultural productivity. We use two different agricultural production...
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Contract Structure, Time Preference, and Technology Adoption
Chowdhury, Shyamal - 2020
Do constraints to technology adoption vary by behavioral traits? We randomize 150 villages in Bangladesh into being offered standard microcredit, loans with a grace period, the choice between those two contracts, and control. No discernible average effects are detected on the adoption of...
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Concept and Unintended Consequences of Weather Index Insurance : The Case of Mexico
Fuchs, Alan - 2013
Recently, Weather Index Insurance (WII) has received considerable attention as a tool to insure farmers against weather related risks, particularly in developing countries. Donor organizations, local governments, insurance companies, development economists as well as agricultural economists are...
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