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Why, after 30 years of aid, were so many African countries no better off in the 1980s than they had been at independence? Why, indeed, were so many of them slipping back and earlier economic achievements being undermined?Concentrating on Sudan, the Poverty of Nations examined what had gone wrong...
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The world is experiencing significant, largely economic and sociotechnical, induced change. These induced changes are meaningful with a function of people taking collective actions around common beliefs. These changes are more than jargon, cliché and hyperbole, and they are effecting major...
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The study presents a comparative analysis of eight Vegetation Indices (VIs) used to examine vegetation greenness over the northern coasts of Iceland. The geographical extent of the study area is set by the coordinates of the two fjords, Eyjafjörður and Skagafjörður, notable for their...
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The present paper explores how implementation of digital technologies (DTs) assists firms in transition economies in addressing weaknesses of the institutional environment surrounding them, in particular via establishment of collective governance systems. Based on case studies of three...
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vegetables and the promotion of these products as a determinant of them. The data for the analyzes came from empirical research … organic fruit and vegetables as well as the factors determining the commencement of making or increasing the frequency of … respondents purchased organic fruit and vegetables, of which only 1/4 claimed to do so regularly and quite often (several times a …
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average rural household. Vegetables are important nonstaple foods relative to fruits. Lower value vegetables are the most … price elastic in the vegetable group. Fruits are more price elastic than vegetables, with grapes being the most price …
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of applying questionnaires to vegetable / fruits producers, in order to identify the degree of functionality of the short …
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) quantify the welfare impact of expanding access to fruits and vegetables in food deserts, (3) compare this effect to that of a … subsidy to fruits and vegetables prices in food deserts, and (4) simulate the welfare change of a food desert household facing … than the availability of fruits and vegetables and store proximity. Expanding the availability of fruits and vegetables in …
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An aggregate measure of production efficiency involving crop and livestock enterprises is examined in the Selale and Ada regions of Ethiopia using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). In general, farmers in regions more suitable to crop production (Ada) tend to attain higher production efficiency...
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