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Sustainability issues and Nigeria’s Agricultural Development Paradigm
Haruna, U; Nasiru, M; Umar, M. B. - African Farm Management Association - AFMA - 2012
This study highlights on the sustainable issues and agricultural development in Nigeria by looking at the theory of … sustainable human development approach. Sustainable development has currently come to the forefront of development studies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010920150
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Economic value of crop residues in African smallholder agriculture
Berazneva, Julia - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
This paper contributes to our understanding of the use and management of crop residues in East African highlands and farmers' decision-making associated with this important on-farm resource. Using the data from a socio-economic and household production survey of a sample of 310 households in 15...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880951
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Resource abundance, governance and economic performance in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
Pomfret, Richard - 2004
This paper analyses the connection between resource wealth, governance and economic performance in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Since independence, both countries have remained heavily resource-dependent and they have had political stability, but despite some similarities, their economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323642
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Economic development and Indigenous Australia: contestations over property, institutions and ideology
Altman, Jon C. - 2004
‐sector hybrid economy framework, rather than the usual two‐sector private (or market) and public (or state) model to more accurately …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442605
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Water Shortages, Water Allocation and Economic Growth: The Case of China
Fang, Xiangming; Roe, Terry L.; Smith, Rodney B.W. - 2006
-type growth model of a small, open, competitive economy is fitted to year 2000 Chinesedata andthe empirical model is used to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443214
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The Regulation of Private Sector Participation in Urban Water Supply and Sanitation: Realising Social and Environmental Objectives in Developing Countries
Johnstone, Nick; Wood, Libby; Hearne, Robert R. - 1999
externalities; provide mechanisms whereby water consumption is sustainable and is allocated efficiently between alternative uses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443916
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Centralized and Decentralized Management of Local Common Pool Resources in the Developing World: Experimental Evidence from Fishing Communities in Colombia
Velez, Maria Alejandra; Murphy, James J.; Stranlund, John K. - 2006
This paper uses experimental data to test for a complementary relationship between formal regulations imposed on a community to conserve a local natural resource and nonbinding verbal agreements to do the same. Our experiments were conducted in the field in three regions of Colombia. Each group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444453
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Energy Consumption and Economic Growth: Evidence from COMESA Countries
Chali, Nondo; Mulugeta, Kahsai - 2009
This study applies panel data techniques to investigate the long-run relationship between energy consumption and GDP for a panel of 19 African countries (COMESA) based on annual data for the period 1980-2005. In the first step, we examine the degree of integration between GDP and energy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445806
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Uncertainty in Fisheries Economics: The Role of the Discount Rate
Plourde, Charles; Bodell, Richard - 1984
Standard models of management of a single-species fishery generally assume that the biomass is of known size and that … it is generated by a well-specified deterministicgrowth law. In reality the biomass is of uncertain size and usually … subject to random growth. Several authors have addressed the problem of random growth assuming a known initial biomass and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445830
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Natural Resource Abundance and Economic Growth in a Two Country World
Roe, Terry L.; Gaitan, Beatriz - 2005
initial stock of the resource is greater than minus one. An analytical solution to the model confirms that this elasticity is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446249