The paper assesses the causal relationship between formal volunteering and individual health. The econometric analysis … relationship between formal volunteering and self-perceived health. …

micro-level evidence on this topic exists, however, since independent survey research is rarely possible in authoritarian …

This paper assesses the causal effect of relaxing equity constraints on the cultivation of tobacco in Malawi, a crop … equity constraints substantially increases the amount of tobacco land cultivated by smallholder farmers, suggesting that … there is scope for increasing tobacco production once equity constraints are relaxed among producers. These findings provide …

This paper investigates the impact of access to credit on the adoption of burley tobacco among households that differ … International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in collaboration with the Rural Development Department of Bunda College of … the likelihood of adoption for tobacco, but conditional on adoption it enables credit constrained households to allocate …

lead to higher costs of production, or the use of irrigation water resource and treatment of tobacco research as a whole … was aimed at evaluating the sustainability of the supply chain Tobacco Bright in Umbria after the CMO reform of 2004 and …

An appropriate structure of tobacco taxation should balance only apparently contrasting health, industrial and fiscal … aims. In this paper, it will be discussed the main critical issues of the present system of tobacco taxation in Italy and … some hypotheses of reform. In particular, it will be proposed to link the structure of tobacco taxation to the weighted …