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Farmers' health status, agricultural efficiency, and poverty in rural Ethiopia: A stochastic production frontier approach
Ulimwengu, John M. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
"The A stochastic frontier production function is used to estimate agricultural efficiency index. Then, controlling for household characteristics and other exogenous variables, the efficiency index is regressed on the probability of being sick. Estimation is performed using the treatment effect...
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The linkages between agriculture and malaria: Issues for policy, research, and capacity strengthening
Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo; Asante, Felix A.; Tarekegn, Jifar; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
profound. Human activity, including agriculture, has been recognized as one of the reasons for the increased intensity of …. Since agriculture is the main activity of rural people in many endemic areas, it has been suggested that effective malaria … control measures can be devised if attention was paid to the two-way effects of agriculture and malaria. There is the need to …
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Development of national innovation systems in developed countries
Karasev, O.; Beloshitsky, A.; Trostyansky, S.; Krivtsova, A. - In: European research studies 21 (2018) 2, pp. 701-712
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Science, Technology and Development: Emerging concepts and visions
Soete, Luc - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008
in developing countries. Building on this analysis, the paper outlines a vision of innovation for development that could … lead to a truly new research programme for innovation studies and the development of successful innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150780
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Globalisation of technology development: offshoring of R&D to China, India and Brazil
Chakrabarti, Alok K.; Bhaumik, Pradip K. - In: International Journal of Engineering Management and … 1 (2010) 1, pp. 68-79
are focusing on building global innovation networks, comprising of R&D units located in clusters of excellence around the …
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Science, technology and innovation for sustainable development : lessons from the Caribbean’s energy transition
Walker, Laverne; Paula, Jônatas de - 2022
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A digital path for sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Vereinte Nationen / Economic Commission for Latin … - 2022
The rapid advance of digital technologies and their increasingly cross-cutting applications have driven global transformations that are affecting the entire economy and all of society. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic marked a turning point in terms of how widely digital solutions are...
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Science, Technology and Development: Emerging concepts and visions
Soete, Luc - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
in developing countries. Building on this analysis, the paper outlines a vision of innovation for development that could … lead to a truly new research programme for innovation studies and the development of successful innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712149
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Using functions of innovation systems to understand the successful emergence of non-traditional agricultural export industries in developing countries : cases from Ethiopia and Chi...
Iizuka, Michiko; Gebreeyesus, Mulu - In: The European journal of development research : journal … 29 (2017) 2, pp. 384-403
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UN Food Systems Summit 2021 - what role science and innovation in the summit and in countries' plans and why?
Braun, Joachim von - 2023
innovation are more or less significantly mentioned. Quality of governance effectiveness is identified as a strong driver of more … attention to science in countries' strategies. The relative weight of agriculture in the national economy shows some positive …
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