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What stayers do? : capital endowments and on-farm transitions in Rural China
Wang, Hao; Fidrmuc, Jan; Luo, Qi; Luo, Mingzhong - 2018
While much research on China has focused on rural to urban migration and transitions of rural households away from agriculture, little is known about the changes within the rural agricultural sector. Yet, the agricultural sector continues to account for a large share of employment. We study the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011926385
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What Stayers Do? Capital Endowments and On-Farm Transitions in Rural China
Wang, Hao - 2019
While much research on China has focused on rural to urban migration and transitions of rural households away from agriculture, little is known about the changes within the rural agricultural sector. Yet, the agricultural sector continues to account for a large share of employment. We study the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892049
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Gender, Geography, and Rural Justice
Pruitt, Lisa R. - 2009
This Article argues that a more grounded and nuanced understanding of women's lived realities requires legal scholars to engage geography. Because spatial aspects of women's lives implicate inequality and moral agency, they have direct relevance to an array of legal issues. The Article thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014219706
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Externalities in Rural Development : Evidence for China
Ravallion, Martin - 2004
Ravallion tests for external effects of local economic activity on consumption and income growth at the farm-household level using panel data from four provinces of post-reform rural China. The tests allow for nonstationary fixed effects in the consumption growth process. Evidence is found of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014107122
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Temperature shocks, short-term growth and poverty thresholds : evidence from rural Tanzania
Letta, Marco; Montalbano, Pierluigi; Tol, Richard S. J. - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 112 (2018), pp. 12-32
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011981932
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Black and white elites in rural Rhodesia
Weinrich, A. K. H. - 1973
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Income diversification in Zimbabwe : welfare implications from urban and rural areas
Ersado, Lire - 2006
diversification in Zimbabwe following macroeconomic policy changes and droughts of the early 1990s. Data from two comparable national … diversified income base are better able to withstand the unfavorable impacts of the policy and weather shocks. The fact that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522098
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Income Diversification in Zimbabwe : Welfare Implications from Urban and Rural Areas
Ersado, Lire - 2016
diversification in Zimbabwe following macroeconomic policy changes and droughts of the early 1990s. Data from two comparable national … diversified income base are better able to withstand the unfavorable impacts of the policy and weather shocks. The fact that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012748016
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An Assessment of the Community Antiretroviral Refill Groups. (CARGs) An Experience from Rural Zimbabwe
Matutu, Vakai - 2018
Community ART Refill Groups are fairly a new concept in Zimbabwe which s being rolled out in rural areas as way for … strengthening HIV care and treatment. The number of PLHIV on ART has tremendously grown in Zimbabwe to more 1,2 million owing to the … assessment of CARGs was based on qualitative and quantitative data collected from 10 CARGs at rural health centre in Zimbabwe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014111367
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Rural Access to ICTs in Southern Africa
Allen, James Riley - 2012
This paper presents opportunities and challenges identified at the NRAW. The paper also references materials relevant to the subject matter only available subsequent to the NRAW. The paper begins by discussing the regional situation and regional work on universal service and access initiatives,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014169448