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Employment elasticity with respect to agriculture value added in South Asia has weakened in recent years. While crop … India in 1993 and 2004, we first review the changes in participation rates in farm and non-farm activities by gender, age … between farm and non-farm activities. Also, the welfare of self-employed in agriculture became more sensitive to rainfall …
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extreme poverty, and towards revival of agriculture in the post-2015 policy discourse. …
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Our analysis illustrates one pathway between agriculture and nutrition through production of nutrients by crop and size … as well as through livestock. As this pathway is subsumed in agriculture and nutrition studies focusing on anthropometric …
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Building on the recent literature on finance, growth and hunger, we have examined the experience of Asian countries over the last five decades, using dynamic panel models. Although the results are mixed, depending on the specification and variables used, there is some evidence favouring a...
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Our analysis illustrates one pathway between agriculture and nutrition through production of nutrients by crop and size … as well as through livestock. As this pathway is subsumed in agriculture and nutrition studies focusing on anthropometric …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640546
rural infrastructure are important determinants of commercialization of agriculture in Cambodia. The marginal effects for …
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agricultural ODA, expenditure or investment to halve poverty. Although the share of agriculture in GDP has declined, our analysis … ensure larger outlays for agriculture and their allocation between rural infrastructure and sustainable technologies. …
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Building on the recent literature on finance, growth and hunger, we have examined the experience of Asian countries over the period 1960-2010 by dynamic and static panel data models. We have found evidence favouring a positive role of finance - defined as private credit by banks - on growth of...
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Index (BMI) in the context of India. The analyses draw upon three rounds of National Family Health Survey (NFHS) data in … support for both the hypotheses in India. Physically intensive activity tends to worsen the nutritional conditions and there …
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requirements due to health improvements and lower activity levels in India, we develop an alternative explanation embedded in a …
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