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Food security and productivity impacts of technology adoption in small subsistence farmers in Bolivia
Salazar, Lina; Aramburu, Julián; González-Flores, Mario; … - 2015
This paper presents the impact evaluation of CRIAR program, implemented in rural areas in Bolivia. The objective of CRIAR is to increase smallholders' agricultural income and food security through productivity improvements triggered by technological adoption. In this study, we use data from a...
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Agricultural Production Performance on Small Farm Holdings : Some Empirical Evidences from Bihar, India
Singh, R. - 2015
farm size and per hectare agricultural productivity in India. It was subsequently argued that the higher productivity of … in Bihar, India. Plot wise panel data of VDSA project are used to reach at precise conclusion. The results provide … comparatively larger land holders than small land holders in Bihar, India. It is mainly due to more uneconomic land holdings of sub …
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Impact of Rainfall on Agricultural Production in Bihar : A Zone-Wise Analysis
Singh, S. K. - 2014
Agriculture in Bihar contributes about 19 percent to state Gross Domestic Product and provides employment to about 70% of working force in rural areas. Rainfall however is erratic to poor and unreliable. Though average rainfall in the State is adequate (1067 mm) but the variation is much higher....
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The ties that bind US : social networks and productivity in the factory
Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Sharma, Swati - 2020
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Factors Affecting Farm Productivity in Rural India : Social Networks and Market Access
Songsermsawas, Tisorn - 2019
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The ties that bind us: social networks and productivity in the factory
Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Sharma, Swati - 2020
We use high frequency worker level productivity data from garment manufacturing units in India to study the effects of …
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Impact of Technology and Policy on Growth and Instability of Agricultural Production : The Case of Cotton in India
Suresh, A. - 2018
Cotton is a crop that underwent continuous technology and policy shifts over period of time, and thus is a test case through which one can examine the changes in the growth and associated instability. The major technology and policy changes cotton cultivation saw include the commercial hybrids'...
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Access to Information, Technology Adoption and Productivity : Large-scale Evidence from Agriculture in India
Gupta, Apoorv - 2020
yields in India. We combine geo-referenced data on the construction of new mobile phone towers with data on the location and …
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The service sector in India
Mukherjee, Arpita - 2013
The service sector is the largest and fastest growing sector in India and has the highest labor productivity, but … investment. While India is among the top 10 World Trade Organization members in service exports and imports, the growth and … and are concentrated in a few markets. Most of the poor in India do not have access to basic services such as healthcare …
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No easy balancing act : reducing the balance of payments constraint ; improving export competitiveness and productivity ; and absorbing surplus labor - the Indian experience
Nabar-Bhaduri, Suranjana - 2011
industrial and agricultural activities would remain crucial. Furthermore, as has been the case in India, this paper also shows …
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