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Most micro-level studies on the impact of agricultural technologies build on cross-section data, which can lead to … unreliable impact estimates. Here, we use panel data covering two time periods to estimate the impact of tissue culture (TC …) banana technology in the Kenyan small farm sector. TC banana is an interesting case, because previous impact studies showed …
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Private standards are gaining in importance in global markets for high-value foods. We analyze and compare impacts of three sustainability oriented standards – Fairtrade, Organic, and UTZ – on the livelihoods of smallholder coffee farmers in Uganda. Using survey data and propensity score...
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School-feeding is an important intervention to attract children to school and augment their learning. The benefits of school-feeding cover several domains. Key to the overall assessment of these benefits is understanding how different implementation models compare to each other and to other...
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under-estimation of the disaster risk facing low-lying atoll islands. Lastly, we constructed hypothetical policy scenarios …
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its impact, mainly at firm-level, remains scarce. Adopting the perspective that the ability to monitor the service … innovation process and to assess its impact is a pre-condition to properly manage it, we conduct a literature review of recent …) and concentrate on published empirical academic articles which clearly examine 'service innovation' and its impact on …
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This study has evaluated the impact of adoption of improved groundnut seed on the well-being of the farmers of Eastern … econometric analysis methods were employed. In the econometric analysis, Propensity Score Matching was used to measure the impact … study have indicated that adoption of improved groundnut seeds has a positive and significant impact on the welfare of the …
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reorganization, raising the number of working places). Foreign capitals increased significantly under the impact of globalization and … analyze the evolution of FDI flows in the period 2007 – 2010, emphasizing the strong impact that economic crisis exerts. The …
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as well as international literature. A distinction is thereby made between the role and impact of the education system …. The review concludes with a discussion of main findings and their policy implications. …
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In this report, we follow up the situation of individuals having re-entered the labour market with the help of a so-called job bank. The follow-up period extends over the next two years after their job-bank-mediated transition into the open labour market. We present two different sets of results...
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In this report, we re-assess the role of so-called job banks as mediators into the open labour market but also as employers of unemployed job-seekers. The focus is primarily on the unemployed who became job bank clients during 2013. We follow up the labour market situation of these individuals...
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