This paper examines the extent to which garment industry in Swaziland has contributed to the economic empowerment of the Swazi people through creation of new jobs and improvement in their overall welfare. In Swaziland as elsewhere in many African countries, unemployment has been and is still a...

This paper analyses the effect of non-credit services of joint liability credit institutions on smallholder women beekeepers’ honey income. The non-credit services offered to the beekeepers are mainly enterprise development services (training on marketing, business, production and subsector...

This study determines the factors that influenced contract choice, labour demand and examines the existence of labour hoarding practice in Western region of Kenya. Data from Egerton University’s Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development was used for the analysis.. A two step...

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This paper begins by arguing that agricultural economics has an important contribution to make to the economic transition of the new democratic South Africa. Policies are required to reduce unemployment, poverty and inequality, but does the work of agricultural economists provide the policy...

This paper presents two models in explaining time allocation to micro credit (MC) by households in North America. The single-period model explains the optimal allocation of time to a microenterprise in any given period, conditional on the household having self-selected into the MC program. A...

The worsening degradation of natural resources urgently requires the adoption ofmore sustainable management practices. This need has led to growing interest andinvestment in monitoring systems for tracking the condition of natural resources.Although grounded in concepts of sustainability, the...

This paper examines the relationship between community participation and theefficacy of interventions designed to reduce poverty. We develop some simple analyticsthat are used to structure a review of the extant literature and motivate the analysis of theimpact of participation on the efficacy...

This paper reviews the literature on the performance of commonly found socialsafety net programs in developing countries. The evidence suggests that universal foodsubsidies have very limited potential for redistributing income. While targeted foodsubsidies have greater potential, this can only...

This paper synthesizes the results of five studies using household panel data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Mali, Mexico and Russia, which examine the extent to which households are able through formal and/or informal arrangements to insure their consumption from specific economic shocks and...