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Lump Sum versus Annuity: Choices of Kentucky Farmers during the Tobacco Buyout Program

Pushkarskaya, Helen N.; Marshall, Maria I. - 2009

Our study uses the data collected during the implementation of the tobacco buyout program inKentucky to evaluate how rural households, diverse in income, age, family structure, location,education level, and other characteristics, made a choice between annuities and a lump-sumpayment. Subjects in...

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Empirical estimation of consistency parameter in intertemporal choice based on Tsallis’ statistics

Takahashi, Taiki; Oono, Hidemi; Radford, Mark H. B. - 2007

Impulsivity and inconsistency in intertemporal choice have been attracting attention in econophysics and neuroeconomics. Although loss of self-control by substance abusers is strongly related to their inconsistency in intertemporal choice, researchers in neuroeconomics and psychopharmacology...

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Understanding the determinants of income inequality in Uganda

Ssewanyana, N. S.; Okidi, A. J.; Angemi, Diego; Barungi, V. - 2004

This paper aims to deepen our understanding of the determinants of income inequality in Uganda. Over the past 10 years …, Uganda experienced gradual and sustained economic growth and poverty reduction. The benefits of growth, however, are not …

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The microfinance industry in Uganda : sustainability, outreach and regulation

Okumu, Luka Jovita - 2007

Using an econometric approach on panel data collected from 53 microfinance institutions(MFIs) in Uganda over a period … study has also usedsurvey data from 31 non-Bank of Uganda (BOU) regulated MFIs or Tier 4 MFIs, fourBOU-regulated non …

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Nile perch demand in the Netherlands: are exports from Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda source-differentiated?

Muhammad, Andrew - 2009

perch fillets were differentiated by product form (chilled and frozen) and by source country (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda …

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SPATIAL INTEGRATION OF MAIZE MARKETS IN POST-LIBERALIZED UGANDA

Rashid, Shahidur - 2004

Using weekly price data for two sub-periods, this paper analyzes how Ugandanmaize market performed in the years following agricultural market liberalization in theearly 1990’s. For each time period, the extent of integration, causality among spatiallocations, and relative importance of spatial...

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DEVELOPMENT PATHWAYS AND LAND MANAGEMENT IN UGANDA: CAUSES AND IMPLICATIONS

Pender, John L.; Jagger, Pamela; Nkonya, Ephraim M.; … - 2001

management practices, agriculturalproductivity, resource and human welfare conditions in Uganda since 1990, based upon acommunity …) appear to have degraded throughout most of Uganda. At the same time, manyindicators of human welfare and access to goods and …

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Price discovery in the wholesale markets for maize and beans in Uganda

David, A Bessler (contributor) - 0001

. Communication of data is mostly betweenmarkets in eastern, western, and central parts of Uganda. Overall, markets are very slowin …

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Hospital Performance Evaluation in Uganda: A Super-Efficiency Data Envelope Analysis Model

Yawe, Bruno - 2010

. The article measures the technical efficiency of 25 district referral hospitals from three regions of Uganda over the 1999 … degrees of technical and scale inefficiency in Uganda’s district referral hospitals. With the super-efficiency model, a …

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A framework for an integrated student information management system for higher education in Uganda

Magara, Elisam - 2006

Uganda since independence in 1962, with varying degrees of success. The extensive changes that have taken place in the last … therefore attempted to investigate the current state of the management and coordination of student information in Uganda. The …. Observably, the current state of the SIMS lacks a strategy to keep track of student information in Uganda. It was established …

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