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Migration, Economic Crisis and Adjustment in the UK
Clark, Kenneth - 2014
We examine changes in migration to the UK in the period leading up to the Great Recession and in its immediate aftermath. In so doing, we pay particular attention to the changing countries of origin of recent migration flows to the UK, especially in relation to migration from other parts of the...
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Rural Households in a Changing Climate
Baez, Javier - 2012
This paper argues that climate change poses two distinct, if related, sets of challenges for poor rural households: challenges related to the increasing frequency and severity of weather shocks and challenges related to long-term shifts in temperature, rainfall patterns, water availability, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099689
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How Sustainable are Benefits from Extension for Smallholder Farmers? Evidence from a Randomized Phase-Out of the BRAC Program in Uganda
Fishman, Ram - 2017
farming practices among women smallholders in Uganda. We find that while supply of improved seeds through local, BRAC trained …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960248
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Strengthening Producer Organizations to Increase Market Access of Smallholder Farmers in Uganda
Vargas Hill, Ruth - 2020
procuring inputs and marketing produce, where smallholders face disproportionately high transaction costs. Producer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822850
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Smallholders, Market Failures, and Agricultural Production : Evidence from India
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2020
smallholders but am unable to do so for non-smallholders. This leads to important differences in production behavior: smallholders … reallocate labor across activities less in response to intra-seasonal crop price changes than do non-smallholders. A … counterfactual exercise indicates smallholders could increase revenue by almost nine percent if they were to reallocate labor …
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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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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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Modernization of Agriculture and Long-Term Growth
Yang, Dennis Tao - 2010
This paper develops a two-sector model that illuminates the role played by agricultural modernization in the transition from stagnation to growth. When agriculture relies on traditional technology, industrial development reduces the relative price of industrial products, but has a limited effect...
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Mobile Internet Adoption in West Africa
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Ochoa, Rogelio; Lach, Samantha - 2021
Mobile broadband internet is the main technology through which individuals access the internet in developing countries. Understanding the barriers to broadband adoption is thus a priority in designing policies aiming to expand access and close the digital divide across socioeconomic groups and...
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Geography vs. Institutions at the Village Level
Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2021
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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