Recent studies find that cash remains a dominant payment choice for small-value transactions despite the prevalence of alternative means of payment such as debit and credit cards. For policy makers an important question is whether consumers truly prefer using cash or merchants restrict card...

Most of the European Union’s (EU) import sources for rice are in developing countries and the least-developed countries (LDCs). The EU has moreover made a commitment to allow duty-free and quota-free access to rice imports originating in the LDCs from September 2009 onward. The purpose of this...

This study uses Nepalese data to estimate the impact of individual, household and cluster/community level variables on child labour and child schooling. The principal estimates are, then, compared with those from Bangladesh and Pakistan. The exercise is designed to identify effective policy...

This paper analyses child labour participation and its key determinants using data sets from Peru and Pakistan. The results include tests of the `Luxury' and `Substitution' hypotheses that play key roles in recent studies on child labour and child schooling. The results reject both hypotheses in...

ResumenEn este trabajo se busca identificar la dependencia que existe entre la publicidad que tiene que hacer una empresa y sus ventas. Sabiendo esta medida de cantidad demandada depende tanto de su precio como en sus gastos publicitarios. Muchas de las empresas pueden crear barreras a la...

Disaster risk is a major concern in a developing country like India as people living in disaster prone regions of the country are subject to variety of risks concerning their livelihoods. Preliminary assessments reveal that the severity and intensity of floods in various parts of India might...

The paper investigates the existing relationships between food demand behaviours and households socioeconomic characteristics in Italy by using the istat 2000 and 2006 Consumption Expenditure Household Surveys. The present work represents the first step of a research project directed to deepen...

This paper analyses child labour participation and its key determinants using the data sets of Peru and Pakistan. The results include tests of the 'Luxury' and 'Substitution' Axioms that play key roles in recent studies on child labour and child schooling.

This paper uses data from Peru, Pakistan and Ghana to simultaneously analyse child labour and child schooling, and compares them between these countries .We use a multinomial logit estimation procedure that analyses the participation and non participation of children in schooling and in...