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the share of land held by an agribusiness in a village affects smallholder plot-level tenure security and investments in … agribusiness significantly increases the probability that a plot has tenure security. Moreover, our results reveal that a decrease …
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targets. Bridging the modeling gaps between climate, energy, and economics, and effectively transforming climate changes into …
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business risk. Business risk is measured as variability in revenue, customer base, informal payments, and temporary firm … closure. The results show lower levels of business risk among certified firms, especially for firms in the middle deciles of … the risk distribution. Certification also correlates negatively with risk-reduction for technologically advanced firms, as …
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of insurance. Third, we help answer the puzzle why the most risk averse are least likely to take up agricultural …
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between households' perceived exposure to uninsured risk, measured as past exposure to deviations in average rainfall levels … the depletion of assets. We also consider the interaction between past weather-risk exposure and the actual realization of … weather shocks to ascertain the extent to which the investment strategies of risk-exposed households "pay off" by buffering …
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Projections of regional changes in seasonal surface-air temperature and precipitation for the eastern and western Zambezi River Basin regions are presented. These projections are cast in a probabilistic context based on a numerical hybridization technique of the MIT Integrated Global System...
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explain household economic decision-making. Preferences are endogenous in line with behavioural economics. Regression results … combined with current high perceptions of risk of violence may induce bolder and riskier behaviour in line with prospect … theories of risk. Furthermore, a post-conflict household-level Phoenix or economic revival factor may be in operation, based in …
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