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Does Non-Farm Income Increase Farm-Household Income Inequality? Evidence from Three Continents
Kimhi, Ayal - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
This paper performs inequality decomposition by income sources using data from three different continents, using a … unified inequality decomposition approach. Household survey data from Ethiopia, Georgia and Korea are used for this purpose …-farm labor income by 1% uniformly results in a lower Gini index of inequality. These results shed light on the processes that …
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The Role of Non-Farm Incomes in Reducing Rural Poverty and Inequality in China
de Janvry, Alain; Sadoulet, Elisabeth; Zhu, Nong - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2005
province, we simulate the counterfactual of what rural households’ incomes, poverty, and inequality would be in the absence … higher and deeper, and that income inequality would be higher as well. We find that education, proximity to town …
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Productivity Gap and Asymmetric Trade Relations: The Canada-United States of America Integration Process
González, Germán H. - In: Revista Economía 37 (2014) 73, pp. 31-46
The usefulness of the European model of integration is currently subject to debate and the North American integration process has been largely ignored as a comparative framework. The asymmetrical relationship between Canada and the United States began a long time before NAFTA, and the study of...
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Exploring development strategies of agricultural systems of Hill Tracts of Chittagong in Bangladesh
Bala, B.; Majumder, S.; Hossain, S. Altaf; Haque, M.; … - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 15 (2013) 4, pp. 949-966
This study presents the determinants and development strategies of agricultural systems of the Hill Tracts of Chittagong in Bangladesh using multivariate analysis. A total of 18 selected variables transformed into 4 factors extracted by principal factor method explain 77.21 % of the total...
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Application of the “Benefit-Of-the-Doubt” Approach for the Construction of a Digital Access Indicator: A Revaluation of the “Digital Access Index”
Gaaloul, Hassen; Khalfallah, Soulef - In: Social Indicators Research 118 (2014) 1, pp. 45-56
The use of composite indicators as a tool for ranking and making decisions is ever increasing in a world marked by the inequalities and competition in all domains. However, the dependence of countries ranking on the weighing scheme used to aggregate individual indices or sub-indicators, most of...
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Future Development Strategies for S Group Based on SWOT Analysis
QI, Guohui; CHEN, Ligen - In: Asian Agricultural Research 06 (2014) 04
In recent years, the real estate development enterprises are facing the gradually increased government's macro-control, and the increasingly fierce market competition, so it is very imperative to timely adjust and change the enterprises' development strategies to adapt to the new development...
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Problems in the Biogas Construction in Weihui City and Development Strategies
Wang, Yilun; Yuan, Chao; Zhang, Qian; Tan, Jinfang; … - In: Asian Agricultural Research 05 (2013) 02
Taking the demonstration biogas construction city in Henan Province — Weihui City as the survey and research city, we give an overview of the industrial and agricultural base and current situation of biogas development in Weihui City, and analyze the main problems in biogas construction,...
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Current Situation of Farmers' Specialized Cooperatives in Hainan Province and Development Strategies
ZHANG, Wanzhen; HUANG, Huide - In: Asian Agricultural Research 05 (2013) 04
This paper introduces the distribution, membership structure and industrial structure of farmers' specialized cooperatives in Hainan Province, and points out some problems in farmers' specialized cooperatives in Hainan Province, such as small scale, low ability to resist risks, lack of...
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The Current Situation and the Development Strategies of Rubber
HUANG, Huide; ZHANG, Wanzhen; ZHANG, Xizhu; HUANG, Haolun - In: Asian Agricultural Research 06 (2014) 05
This article describes the distribution, member structure and industrial operation structure of the rubber farmer cooperatives in Hainan Province, and points out some problems in the cooperatives, such as small member scale, unbalanced regional development, lack of standardization in operation,...
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The Current Breeding Situation and Development Strategies on High-quality Inbred Rice in Guangxi
Liu, Guanglin; Chen, Yuanmeng; Chen, Chuanhua; Jiang, … - In: Asian Agricultural Research 05 (2013) 06
According to the rice quality, production and resistance of 50 high-quality inbred rice varieties bred and examined and approved in Guangxi during the period 2000-2011, we analyze the current breeding situation and existing problems concerning high-quality inbred rice variety in Guangxi: the...
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