The present study examines whether rural non-farm employment has any poverty and/or vulnerability-reducing effect in Vietnam and India. To take account of sample selection bias associated with it, we have applied treatment-effects model. It is found that log per capita consumption or log mean...

To discipline managers, various governance measures are being developed. They include stock options, shareholder lawsuits, hostile takeovers, and outside directors. In the literature, some studies have found evidence supporting the introduction of these measures, but others have found evidence...

The present study examines the relationship between farm size, agricultural productivity and access to agricultural extension programmes in reducing poverty and vulnerability drawing upon LSMS panel data in Uganda in 2009-2012 covering three rounds. We first estimate household crop productivity...

This paper establishes a simple no-bubble theorem that applies to a wide range of deterministic models with in nitely lived consumers. Our model assumes only a sequential budget constraint and strictly monotone preferences. In this general setup, we show that asset bubbles are impossible if a...

This paper illustrates the situated construction of a marketing environment, in which power significantly matters. For this purpose, we shed light upon the meaning attached to diesel vehicles in Japan. The focus is justified by its uniqueness regarding the treatment of diesel vehicles and the...

This study investigates the efficiency of Japanese credit cooperatives using a stochastic directional distance function approach and compares the results obtained from a slack-based data envelopment analysis model (SBM). Moreover, it focuses on the differences in the four groups classified by a...

This paper is to set out the backgrounds for the construction of new rural and urban poverty and inequality estimates using the World Bank Living Standard Measurement Survey (LSMS) data of developing countries with focus on methodological details as well as on their advantages or disadvantages....

This study empirically analyzes risk-sharing mechanisms in rural Mexico to examine the vulnerability of the rural households. The two most recent Mexican rural household panel data (2003 and 2007) are used in the study. This study defines "vulnerability" as the inability to smooth consumption...

Chinese households have experienced significant income growth, while their nutrition intake has not increased pari passu. This paper uses household data in both rural and urban China over the period 1989-2009 to explain the paradox of higher income but lower nutrition. In addition to traditional...

In recent years, a range of measures of "partial" or "degree of" stochastic dominance have been introduced. These measures attempt to determine the extent to which one distribution is dominated by another. In order to systematically assess these proposed measures and their relationship to...