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Adaptations in SCOR based performance metrics of airline catering supply chain during COVID-19 pandemic
Rajaratnam, Dhaarsan; Sunmola, Funlade - In: Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management (JIEM) 14 (2021) 4, pp. 808-829
into a focus group. The performance metrics were prioritised using MoSCoW method based on the experience of the focus group … from the SCOR framework is identified and validated for airline catering supply chains. MoSCoW based prioritisation of the … can monitor their catering logistics performance and use techniques such as MoSCoW to decide performance measures …
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Entrepreneurship for the poor in developing countries
Cho, Yoonyoung - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
Can entrepreneurship programs be successful labor market policies for the poor? A large share of workers in developing countries are self-employed in low-paying work or engage in low-return entrepreneurial activities that keep these workers in poverty. Entrepreneurship programs provide business...
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Promoting ecosystem-friendly irrigation farm management practices for sustainable livelihoods in Africa: The Ghanaian experience
Agula, Caesar; Akudugu, Mamudu Abunga; Mabe, Franklin Nantui - In: Agricultural and Food Economics 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-21
overemphasised. This paper analysed the effects of adopting ecosystem-based farm management practices (EBFMPs) on the livelihoods of … estimate the effects of adopting EBFMPs on livelihoods of farmers. Specifically, the average treatment effect (ATE) and average … EBFMPs has positive and significant implications for farmers' livelihoods. The paper therefore recommends that irrigation …
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Collective Capacity to Aspire? Aspirations and Livelihood Strategies in the Zambezi Region, Namibia
Aring, Mascha; Reichardt, Ole; Katjizeu, Ewaldine Menjono; … - In: The European Journal of Development Research 33 (2021) 4, pp. 933-950
simultaneously how aspirations contribute to future-oriented actions. In combining concepts of sustainable livelihoods and …
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Material and nonmaterial impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic: Evidence from a low‐income country
Lohmann, Rebecca; Hoffmann, Lisa - In: Review of Development Economics 27 (2023) 4, pp. 2007-2039
How have COVID‐19‐related restrictions affected consumption levels and life satisfaction in low‐income countries? We conducted phone surveys with 577 households in Liberia to compare consumption patterns across three points in time: November 2019 (pre‐COVID‐19), May 2020 (short term),...
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Effects of local institutions on the adoption of agroforestry innovations: evidence of farmer managed natural regeneration and its implications for rural livelihoods in the Sahel
Binam, Joachim N.; Place, Frank; Djalal, Arinloye A.; … - In: Agricultural and Food Economics 5 (2017) 2, pp. 1-28
natural regeneration (FMNR) practices and, (2) evaluating the benefits of such practices on livelihoods. The propensity score …
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Sustainability of subsistence livelihoods of agro-pastoralists in changing socioeconomic environment of Cholistan desert-Pakistan
Malik, Sher Muhammad; Ali, Amjad - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 11 (2017) 3, pp. 1100-1133
Subsistence livelihoods of agro-pastoralists are heavily dependent on vulnerable natural resources. These natural …, policy and hazards brought transformations in the livelihoods patterns in the Cholistan desert. The sustainability of … subsistence livelihoods of agro-pastoralists in Cholistan desert was analyzed through strength, weaknesses, opportunities and …
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“Because migration begins from the villages”: environmental change within the narrations of the Ewe diaspora
Hillmann, Felicitas; Okine, Rueben Korley; Borri, Giulia - In: Ethnic and Racial Studies 43 (2020) 16, pp. 39-56
The article analyses the role of environmental change within the narrations of the Ewe-diaspora, a sub-group of the Ghanaian diaspora. It focusses on the role and the impact of the diaspora when it comes to coping with environmental change at the place of origin. It highlights the nexus with...
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Working conditions of immigrant women in household labour market: Murcia City
Riquelme Perea, Prudencio José; Ruiz Casanova, Encarnación - In: Atlantic Review of Economics 1 (2014)
The massive of immigrant women in recent decades, has resulted in social and labour insertion of these effectively enforced through the domestic sector, but in which conditions? The Purpose of this study is to show the functioning of the domestic work market within Murcia City, through...
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Does Domestic Work Affect the Academic Performance of Girls in Primary School in Côte d’Ivoire? Empirical Evidence from Probit Model
Abou, Pokou Edouard - In: European Scientific Journal 12 (2016) 35, pp. 368-381
The objective of this paper is to highlight the effects of domestic work of girls on their school results in Cȏte d’Ivoire. From a probit model, the analysis indicates that domestic work favours, meaningfully, the fact about repeating a school year for the girl child. Besides, the...
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