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Infrastructure and cluster development: A case study of handloom weavers in Ethiopia
Ayele, Gezahegn; Chamberlin, Jordan; Moorman, Lisa; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
Rural non-farm development plays a key role in generating employment in many developing countries. Clustering is an important industrial organization in the rural non-farm sector. Based on primary surveys of both urban and rural handloom weaver clusters in Ethiopia which took place in May/June...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933117
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Infrastructure and cluster development: A case study of handloom weavers in Ethiopia
Ayele, Gezahegn; Chamberlin, Jordan; Moorman, Lisa; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114801
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Russia's agriculture: eight years in transition - convergence or divergence of regional efficiency
Uvarovsky, Vladimir; Voigt, Peter - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2000
In this paper, we consider how Russian Agriculture has developed since the constitution of the Russian Federation. The … agriculture is for many regions the fundamental source of income this fact is alarming, especially when the local agriculture …G E R M A N V E R S I O N: Gegenstand dieses Papiers ist die Entwicklung der russischen Landwirtschaft seit Gründung …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008526808
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Why Are Women Working so Much More in Canada? An International Perspective
Tsounta, Evridiki - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This paper analyzes the role of the tax and benefit system in spurring the impressive increase in Canadian female labor participation in the last decade. Using annual panel data for 10 large industrial countries over the period 1980-2001, I find that reforms in the Canadian tax and benefit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826383
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Ireland; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004
The Selected Issues paper analyzes how fast Ireland will grow in the future. The approach of this paper is to consider the catch-up in labor utilization productivity and use independent demographic projections and other considerations to make reasonable assumptions about labor productivity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825025
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Forecasting Profitability
Rosenzweig, Mark; Udry, Christopher - eSocialSciences - 2013
Newly-available Indian panel data is used to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. [BREAD Working Paper No. 392]. URL:[http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/392.pdf].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945552
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Deforestation and Welfare: Evidence from Africa
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2011
This paper examines the effects of deforestation on the welfare of rural communities in the Congo Basin. Using moment conditions of agricultural and forest exploitations, findings indicate deforestation significantly improves welfare both at overall-rural and agricultural household per capita...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010862078
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Environmental livelihood security in Southeast Asia and Oceania: a water-energy-food-livelihoods nexus approach for spatially assessing change.
Biggs, E. M.; Boruff, B.; Bruce, E.; Duncan, J. M. A.; … - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265615
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Deforestation and welfare : evidence from Africa
Simplice A, Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper examines the effects of deforestation on the welfare of rural communities in the Congo Basin. Using moment conditions of agricultural and forest exploitations, findings indicate deforestation significantly improves welfare both at overall-rural and agricultural household per capita...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372511
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Population growth and forest sustainability in Africa
Simplice A, Asongu; Brian A, Jingwa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Recent distressing trends in climate change, population explosion and deforestation inspired this paper, which completes existing literature by providing empirical justification to hypothetical initiatives on the impact of population growth on forest sustainability in Africa. Using three moment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372554