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agriculture is much stronger in the medium run than in the short run. This is because the indirect PR effect – a multiplier effect …
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This study analyzes how risk attitudes influence the agricultural productivity of men and women in a subSaharan African country, Burkina Faso. By using a large representative panel survey of farmers, the results show that as female farmers increase risk taking, the productivity of female-owned...
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embeddedness of women entrepreneurs or the institutional environment for women's entrepreneurship. We contribute to the literature … context along a continuum of where entrepreneurship takes place and when this happens. Where context has been studied in … institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography …
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collection, are already giving a big contribution in fostering the access to electricity and clean cooking in Sub-Saharan Africa …. This paper gives an overview on the actual state of energy access in Sub-Saharan Africa and the current technologies used … Africa, financial aspects and market analysis. The perspective of both companies and end-users have been considered here. The …
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development in the agricultural stage but has had a negative impact on income per capita in the course of industrialization; and … economic development in the process of industrialization. … a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were …
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This paper explores the impact of the South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) agreement on food security by using a gravity model to examine the regional changes in trade in agricultural products. This is followed by a discussion of how this might affect the four dimensions of food security,...
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agricultural development in Timor-Leste and how such development can be achieved. This is done in two steps. The first one takes …
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agriculture and to foster a modern sector that can generate employment for the growing population. Public expenditures play an … important role in this development and East Timor is fortunate to have a large petroleum fund to utilize for economic growth and … development. Unfortunately, the fund is about to dry up. There are also clear signs that a large part of investments and …
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a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were … characterized the agricultural stage of development. The lack of cultural diffusion and its manifestation in cultural rigidity … industrialization and, thereby, their take-off to a state of sustained economic growth. The theory contributes to the understanding of …
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The simultaneous achievement of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) is, to say the least, challenging. In a … competition. The situation in Africa is particularly problematic, as the continent lags behind all others in terms of quality and … sector holds the key to many aspects of development, however no energy solution (albeit green or synergetic) should be …
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