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Urban Congestion Pricing – Economists and Practitioners Join Hands
Rave, Tilmann - In: CESifo DICE Report 3 (2005) 3, pp. 3-4
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The Impacts of Agricultural Machinery Purchase Subsidies on Mechanized Crop Residue Recycling
Du, Xin; Zhang, Heng-ming; Tian, Qi; Zhou, Jian-hua - In: Asian Agricultural Research 03 (2011) 05
Crop residue recycling can improve the quality of the cropland, and it has multiple economic and ecological benefits. However, such practice is with low adoption due to different constraints. In this paper, we use the survey data from Baoding, Hebei province, and use the probit model to explore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365806
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Consumers’ Purchasing Intentions for Vegetable Oil in the Presence of Generic or Specific Information on Genetic Modification
Hu, Wuyang; Chen, Kevin Z. - In: Journal of Agribusiness 26 (2008) 2
provide relevant information disclosure. Using data collected in Beijing, China, this study attempts to address the issue of …
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Factors affecting crop insurance purchases in China: the Inner Mongolia region
Boyd, Milton; Pai, Jeffrey; Zhang, Qiao; Wang, H. Holly; … - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 3 (2011) 4, pp. 441-450
Purpose – China frequently suffers from weather-related natural disasters and weather risk is recognized as a source of … wide-spread systemic risk throughout large swaths of China. During these periods farmers' crops are at risk and for a … believe that this is the first willingness-to-pay study of weather insurance uptake in China. The authors used a unique …
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Empirical Study on the Influencing Factors of Rural Households’ Credit and Loan Demand-Investigation based on Jianhu County, JiangSu Province
Liu, Hua; Ji, Li - In: Asian Agricultural Research 2 (2010) 12
By using the relevant data from 273 valid questionnaires of rural households in Jianhu County, Jiangsu Province and the Probit model, the influencing factors of rural households’ credit demand are analyzed. The results show that the factors that influencing the credit demand of rural...
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Sexual Bias and Household Consumption: A Semiparametric Analysis of Engel Curves in Rural China
Gong, Xiaodong; van Soest, Arthur; Zhang, Ping - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
We analyze Engel curves for nuclear households in rural China. The sample includes more than 5000 nuclear families …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822726
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Crisis de energia rural y trabajo femenino en tres areas ecologicas del Peru.
E, Alcantara; M, De La Pena; M, Abuhadba; D, Flores - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1985
ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the economic role of rural women and fuelwood needs in three ecologycally distinct rural communitys in Peru - describes the research method; examines the rural area energy issue and women's household activities; analyses the sexual division of labour, waste of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010965893
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Energy price increases and economic development in Malaysia.
CO, Fong - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1984
ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the impact of higher energy costs (particularly petroleum price increases) on economic development in Malaysia, 1973 to 1983 - outlines trends in gross domestic product, balance of payments, trade and economic growth; considers household income and fuel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966410
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Change in domestic fuel consumption in central Mexico and its relation to employment and nutrition.
Evans, M. I - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1986
Building on earlier empirical work by the same author, the study describes changes over time in two villages in Central Mexico having differential access to household fuel supplies and to income-generating opportunities. While not disproving any links between fuel consumption and nutrition,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966530
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Rural energy crisis, women's work and family welfare: perspectives and approaches to action.
E, Cecelski - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1984
Working paper on the relationship between the rural energy crisis, particularly fuelwood, rural women's work and family welfare in developing countries. Examines household labour utilization in fuel procurement, including sexual division of labour and child labour. Studies the effects of fuel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966878