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Mobile phone based money services have spread rapidly in many developing countries. We analyze micro level impacts using panel data from smallholder farmers in Kenya. Mobile money use has a large positive net impact on household income. One important pathway is through remittances, which...
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Agriculture is still the most important sector in driving economic growth and poverty reduction in developing countries …
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Livelihood sources in rural Africa are diverse and dynamic. Using recent primary data from four African countries …-farm income share increases with total income, meaning that the poorest households are the ones most dependent on agriculture …
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Mobile phone based money services have spread rapidly in many developing countries. We analyze micro level impacts using panel data from smallholder farmers in Kenya. Mobile money use has a large positive net impact on household income. One important pathway is through remittances, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333097
Mobile phone based money services have spread rapidly in many developing countries. We analyze micro level impacts using panel data from smallholder farmers in Kenya. Mobile money use has a large positive net impact on household income. One important pathway is through remittances, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880190
high-value agriculture often creates new employment opportunities, especially for women. More employment can lead to higher …
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increase off-farm self-employment in response to both short-term and persistent droughts, without abandoning family farming …. Diversification into off-farm activities is driven by drought-related productivity declines in agriculture and contributes to …
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details of these agriculture-nutrition-health linkages are not yet well understood. While there is a broad literature on the …
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Malnutrition in its various forms is a serious problem in many countries, contributing to human suffering, large healthcare costs, and hampered economic and human development. While various policies to reduce malnutrition exist, such policies typically fail to consider cultural factors. Here, we...
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