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A Modern Tragedy of the Non-Commons: Agro-Industrial Change and Equity in Brazil's Babassu Palm Zone
May, Peter H. - 1986
use (chiefly pasture) conversion and technical change in both agriculture and babassu industries have redefined property …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468356
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Natural Disasters and Agriculture: Individual Risk Preferences towards Flooding
Sauer, Johannes - 2011
This study contributes to the understanding of behavioural responses to climate change induced extreme weatherevents. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method is outlined using the empirical case of agricultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442826
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Economic uncertainty and divisive politics: evidence from the "dos Españas"
García-Uribe, Sandra; Mueller, Hannes; Sanz, Carlos
Este artículo utiliza las hemerotecas de dos periódicos para estimar el índice de incertidumbre sobre las políticas económicas —Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU)—en España en 1905-1945, un período de gran polarización política. Encontramos que el estallido de la Guerra Civil en 1936...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012525467
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Consumption risk, technology adoption and poverty traps: evidence from Ethiopia
Dercon, Stefan; Christiaensen, Luc - 2007
Much has been written on the determinants of input and technology adoption in agriculture, with issues such as input … explored in panel data for Ethiopia. Historical rainfall distributions are used to identify the counterfactual consumption risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441498
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The nature of unemployment in urban Ethiopia
Serneels, Pieter - 2004
With around 50% of the urban men between age 15 and 30 unemployed, Ethiopia has one of the highest unemployment rates … worldwide. This paper describes the nature ofunemployment among young men in urban Ethiopia. We analyse the determinants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441517
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Identifying Asset Poverty Thresholds – New methods with an application to Pakistan and Ethiopia
Naschold, Felix - 2005
is whether such threshold points exist in Pakistan and Ethiopia and, if so, where they are located. Methodologically, the … poverty thresholds. Third, it adds the first study for a South Asian country and makes a comparison with Ethiopia … households in the sample. In Ethiopia, the equilibrium is barely above the very low mean. This, together with the slow speed of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442955
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STOCHASTIC WEALTH DYNAMICS AND RISK MANAGEMENT AMONG A POOR POPULATION
Lybbert, Travis J.; Barrett, Christopher B.; Desta, Solomon - 2002
pastoralists in southern Ethiopia to study stochastic wealth dynamics among a very poor population. These data yield several novel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444410
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Price Transmission and Adjustment in the Ethiopian Coffee Market
Alemu, Zerihun Gudeta; Worako, Tadesse Kumma - 2009
This study focused on the interrelationships among producer, auction and world prices. In so doing, it criticized previous studies and extended technique developed by Hansen (1999) to handle inferential biases occurring as a result of specification errors. The following results were found:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444810