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Vietnam. This is the first study to examine training program participation rates in a rural Asian context. According to a … survey conducted in Ha Tinh Province, Vietnam in 2008, more than 90 per cent of individuals expressed an interest in … such as an individual’s risk attitude and willingness to compete are significant predictors of previous participation. Our …
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This paper investigates the effects of network based individual social capital on the access of rural households to services. In the context of development economics, an innovative data collection approach is used to determine network based social capital. The approach originates from the field...
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smallholder dairy farmers in Vietnam to independently verify milk testing results. Treatment farmers use 13 percent more inputs …
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Brazil, Turkey, and the USA. The study focuses ona wider supply chain or network perspective for the risk assessment …. Methodically the assessedrisks were classified and then evaluated using a risk map matrix. Results point out nonacceptablerisks and … show the differences concerning the risk evaluation in the different valuechains. Results provide interesting supply chain …
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The present paper aims to give insight into critical issues contributing to the successful building of viable and sustainable regional netchains, focussing on chain governance mechanisms (coordination mechanisms, quality management systems, information systems) and social embedding. It uses...
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well as in Brazil, Turkey, and the USA. The study focuses on a wider supply chain or network perspective for the risk … assessment. Methodically the assessed risks were classified and then evaluated using a risk map matrix. Results point out … nonacceptable risks and show the differences concerning the risk evaluation in the different value chains. Results provide …
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This paper analyzes the impact of risk and ambiguity aversion - Knightian uncertainty - on the choice of optimal … quality is decreasing in ambiguity aversion while it is a non-monotonic function of the level of risk. For low levels of risk …, the increase of product quality is an efficient response. Up to certain threshold level of risk, risk and ambiguity …
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depend on farmers’ socio-economic characteristics such as wealth, while individual risk preferences seem to be less important …
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Exogenous, unobserved factors often confound the effects of alliance networks. More capable farmers might be less likely to exit and more likely to have a large number of alliances. In this case the negative correlation between alliance network size and exit likelihood is due to the unobserved...
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