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Timor-Leste's first ten years of independence have been turbulent and a large share of the population remains poor. Broad-based improvements in living standards will require improvements in agricultural production since most Timorese are subsistence farmers and since there is no modern sector to...
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This paper studies income poverty among the 50+ population in 10 EU countries using newly collected data from the SHARE …. Relative income poverty range from 10 percent (in Sweden) to 22 percent (in Switzerland). Logistic regression estimates show … increased likelihood of poverty. Less risk of poverty can be found among those that have supervision over the workplace, have …
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Given the importance of agriculture in any sizable country to feed its people, most countries have subsidised … agriculture in the past, be they developed countries like the United States of America or countries in the European Union or Japan …. The Government of India (GoI) has supported agriculture through budgetary provisions as well as through revenues foregone …
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set an ambitious target of 100,000 MW of solar power capacity to be achieved by 2022, when India celebrates 75 years of her independence. This is a grand vision for ushering in a sort of revolution in clean energy in India in the next six years. In a country that...
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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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to output and welfare gains of 19% and 29%, respectively. Improving the functioning of consumption insurance markets …
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The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of the adoption of technological packages in agriculture Kenya on the … farming households, as promoted by the National Agriculture and Livestock Extension Programme (NALEP), a program run by the …
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Deficits in physical infrastructure, problems with availability of agricultural inputs and poor access to agriculture … and delivery of agricultural inputs and agriculture infrastructure. This paper investigates a series of questions that … and mobile-enabled agricultural services have an impact on agriculture? What are the factors that impede the realisation …
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greater level of influence of a food sector lobby, relative to other political lobbies- and general consumer welfare …. Governments, when considering their objectives, must consider food security along with consumer welfare and the objectives of … rewards of special interest participation in policy formation while increasing national welfare. …
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Utilizing a 2002 household-level World Bank Survey for rural Turkey, this paper explores the link between concentration of land ownership and rural factor markets. We construct a unique index that measures market malfunctioning based on the neoclassical model linking land and labor endowments...
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