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Exogenous shocks to farmers' consumption, production and labour market decisions are rarely considered accurately. For farm households, under labour market imperfections, such decisions are often interlinked. This calls for non-separable agricultural household models. According to this...
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. Drawing on data from real-purchase offers in rural Rwanda and Senegal, the analysis focuses on how the willingness to pay for … ländlichen Ruanda und Senegal konzentriert sich die Analyse darauf, wie die Bereitschaft, für die Technologien zu zahlen, mit …
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Resilience offers a useful lens for studying how human well-being and the systems on which it depends can absorb and recover from a range of shocks and stressors, including events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Looking beyond the direct effects of observable shocks and individual or household...
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India and China have the largest farm-household populations in the world and in many areas also the poorest. Among the many factors that affect farm livelihoods access to credit has been identified as a significant barrier. While there has been a significant literature on credit constraints in...
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We contribute to the long debate on whether export commodity revenues can lead to economic development by studying the consequences of the nearly six-fold increase in the global price of vanilla on vanilla farming communities in Madagascar. We find a substantial increase in the wealth and...
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The increasing impact of natural disasters (floods, earthquakes, landslides, and avalanches) in Afghanistan, notably flooding and similar climate shocks, poses a growing concern as vulnerability to climate change intensifies the potential severity of these impacts in future. This paper uses two...
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Senegal has experienced a rapid expansion in fixed and mobile broadband Internet infrastructure over the past decade …
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Senegal has experienced a rapid expansion in fixed and mobile broadband Internet infrastructure over the past decade …
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This paper explores the resilience capacity of rural Ethiopian households after the drought shock occurred in 2011. The work develops an original empirical framework able to capture the policy and socio-economic determinants of households’ resilience capacity by making parametric statistical...
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This study assesses the impact of rice price shock on household welfare in rural Bangladesh using the first- and second-order welfare measures and 2015 Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey (BIHS) data. We find that the increase in rice price reduces the welfare of the households and increases...
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