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Physical resources such as land, labour and livestock, and nonphysical resources such as indigenous knowledge and …) institutional resources become less effective, and ii) combination of land, labour, knowledge and other complementary resources form … such as land are government owned and household decisions are shared by the state, local institutions or social networks …
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systematically larger along the pre-Islamic trade routes in the Old World. The theory argues that this particular type of geography … economic performance. It suggests that the unequal distribution of land endowments conferred differential gains from trade … to institute a system of income redistribution. However, a higher propensity to save by the rich would exacerbate wealth …
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In recent years, an important number of impact studies have attempted to examine the effect of credit on income poverty; however, many of these studies have not paid sufficient attention to the problems of endogeneity and selection bias. The few exceptional cases have employed econometric...
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This paper presents an estimation of the impacts of microcredit on labor and human capital following a quasi-experiment specifically designed to control for endogeneity and selection bias in the context of urban Mexico. We find important indirect trickle-down effects of credit through labor...
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The social capital has strengthened the solidarity funds when the legal mechanisms and institutions for monitoring and assistance would not have been present. The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of social capital on productivity and performance of the Mexican solidarity funds. For...
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This paper incorporates interdisciplinary New Institutional Economics and suggests a holistic framework for assessing the forms and efficiency of environmental management in agriculture. First, it defines environmental management as a specific system of social order regulating behaviour and...
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: - to link integrated water resources management to land issues, develop the technology needed to build capacity, and … consider water as related to other resources (land, energy, nutrients) and other fields of sustainability such as poverty …
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This paper suggests a holistic framework for assessment and improvement of management strategies for conservation of natural resources in agriculture. First, it incorporates an interdisciplinary approach (combining Economics, Organization, Law, Sociology, Ecology, Technology, Behavioral and...
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In the last two decades, the Costa Rican rural areas have been under considerable transformations. The changes occurred in the international context and the reorientation of the economic policies executed in the country, provoked the loom up of a more diverse productive structure and the...
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The dissatisfaction of developing countries with the new Trade Round surfaced first in the WTO meeting in Seattle in … industrializers and the failure of recent across-the-board and universal trade liberalization, he proposes the necessary changes in …
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