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Incentives to labour migration and agricultural productivity: The Bayesian perspective

Djuikom, Marie Albertine - 2018

Understanding how internal labour migration affects the agricultural sector is important for all developing countries whose markets do not work well or are non-existent. In fact, even if the movement out of the agricultural sector can be viewed as a process to reach development for many African...

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Incentives to labour migration and agricultural productivity : the Bayesian perspective

Djuikom, Marie Albertine - 2018

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Effects of Rural Non-Farm Employment on Poverty and Income Distribution: Evidence for Macedonia and Slovenia

Möllers, Judith - In: Journal of Income Distribution 20 (2011) 2, pp. 23-37

an empirical household survey. Results show a high dependency on non-farm incomes; smaller farms particularly benefit …

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Marketing for Pro-Poor Development: Deriving Opportunities for Development from the Marketing Literature

Ingenbleek, Paul T.M.; Tilburg, Aad van - In: Review of Business and Economics LIV (2009) 3, pp. 327-344

-scale fishermen at Lake Victoria, master weavers in India and smallholder farmers of fruits and meat producing pastoralists in Africa. …

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Regulatory Environment and Subsidies and It's Impact on Rice Sub-Sector in India

Singh, Krishna M. - 2015

Agricultural growth has been largely responsible for India's desire for long term food security for its rapidly growing … effective competition policy regime in India, has constrained the farm sector gains from trade reforms, and farmer's capacity to … productivity in India. The current paper is an attempt to understand the various regulatory provisions and subsidies which affect …

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Framework for Assessing Environmental Management in Agriculture

Bachev, Hrabrin - 2012

This paper incorporates interdisciplinary New Institutional Economics and suggests a holistic framework for assessing the forms and efficiency of environmental management in agriculture. First, it defines environmental management as a specific system of social order regulating behaviour and...

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Rural crime in developing countries : theoretical framework, empirical findings, research needs

Grote, Ulrike; Neubacher, Frank - 2016

Anecdotal evidence and selected information from the International Crime Victims Survey suggest that crime is higher in developing countries than in developed countries and that there are regionally big differences. Explanations and solutions to the persistence and prevalence of rural crime in...

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Rural Areas and Agricultural Holdings in China: What Has Changed Within Ten Years from the 1996 to the 2006?

Ackerman, Frank - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2011) 4

The aim of this article is to outline the main effects of the 1978 agricultural reform and the consequent shift from collective land utilization to family household management (Household Responsibility System). Specific focus will be on the structural changes occurring in rural areas and on the...

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Rural Areas and Agricultural Holdings in China: What Has Changed Within Ten Years from the 1996 to the 2006?

Fanfani, Roberto; Calò, Nica Claudia - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2011) 4

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Off-farm employment participation among paddy farmers in the Muda Agricultural Development Authority and Kemasin Semerak granary areas of Malaysia

Man, Norsida; Sadiya, Sami Ismaila - In: Asia-Pacific Development Journal 16 (2009) 2, pp. 141-153

their likelihood to engage in off-farm employment. Evidently, the variables of farm size and level of education were …

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