Resultados de búsqueda - "capitalism"

Agricultural diversification and poverty in India por Birthal, Pratap S., Roy, Devesh, Negi, Digvijay S.

“…Although the diversification effect on poverty is in general positive, it seems to wither after a threshold probably because of some operational constraints, such as capital on smaller farms and labor on larger ones.…”
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Integrating livestock in the CAADP framework: Policy analysis using a dynamic computable general equilibrium model for Ethiopia por Gelan, Ayele, Engida, Ermias, Caria, A. Stefano, Karugia, Joseph T.

“…A separate herd dynamics module enables us to specify stock–flow relationship, distinguishing between the capital role of livestock and the flow of livestock products. …”
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Food price volatility in Africa: Has it really increased? por Minot, Nicholas

“…In addition, the results suggest that price volatility is lower for processed and tradable foods than for nontradable foods, that volatility is lower in the largest (usually the capital) cities than in secondary cities, and that maize price volatility is actually higher in countries with the most active intervention to stabilize maize prices. …”
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Dynamic agricultural supply response under economic transformation: A case study of Henan province por Yu, Bingxin, Liu, Fengwei, You, Liangzhi

“…This research links supply response to exogenous factors (weather, irrigation, government policy, capital investment, and infrastructure) and endogenous factors (prices). …”
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Impacts of climate change on agriculture and policy options for adaptation: The case of Vietnam por Yu, Bingxin, Zhu, Tingju, Breisinger, Clemens, Hai, Nguyen Manh

“…However, investment in rural infrastructure, such as irrigation and road, and human capital can mitigate the negative impacts of climate change. …”
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The impact of oportunidades in Mexico: An integrated CGE-microsimulations modeling approach por Dorosh, Paul A., Debowicz, Dario, Golan, Jennifer

“…Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) have become a popular tool to reduce poverty and inequality in the short run and to promote investments in human capital. CCTs are now present in almost all parts of the developing world, especially in Latin America. …”
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Impact of PROGRESA on achievement test scores in the first year: final report por Behrman, Jere R., Sengupta, Piyali, Todd, Petra E.

“…Increasing human capital investments in children is considered to be among the most effective ways of alleviating poverty and encouraging growth in developing countries. …”
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Cross-country typologies and development strategies to end hunger in Africa por Zhang, Xiaobo, Johnson, Michael E., Resnick, Danielle, Robinson, Sherman

“…Next, using the newly developed classification and regression tree technique (CART), we link the outcome variables, such as per capital GDP and the prevalence of child malnutrition, with this smaller set of factors. …”
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Social accounting matrices for Vietnam 1996 and 1997 por Pohl Nielsen, Chantal

“…In terms of institutional detail, the SAMs include five factors of production (three types of labor distinguished by skill level, one type of capital and one type of land), six household types (distinguished by rural/urban, agricultural/non-agricultural, wage/self-employed), and one account each for enterprises, government, investment/savings and rest-of-world. …”
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What has happened to growth in Latin America por Morley, Samuel

“…The paper finds that neither falling investment, volatile capital inflows nor the implementation of structural reforms is the problem. …”
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Incentives and constraints in the transformation of Punjab agriculture por McGuirk, Anya, Mundlak, Yair

“…The use of more sophisticated techniques requires human capital, and farmers with inadequate schooling will be unable to adopt them quickly. …”
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Public spending and poverty in Mozambique por Heltberg, Rasmus, Simler, Kenneth R., Tarp, Finn

“…Poverty reduction strategies often highlight public spending to improve health and education, focusing on investments in human capital among poorer members of society. In addition, debt relief programs such as the enhanced Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative often require increased spending on health and education in return for debt cancellation. …”
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Conflict, food insecurity, and globalization por Messer, Ellen, Cohen, Marc J.

“…For more than two centuries, proponents and critics of an open global economy have debated whether the free flows of goods, services, and capital make the world more peaceful and food secure or instead exacerbate inequalities and hardships, fanning interclass or interethnic violence motivated by grievance and greed. …”
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Escaping poverty traps?: Collective action and property rights in post-war rural Cambodia por Weingart, Anne, Kirk, Michael

“…Findings indicate that access to and use of natural capital still contributes significantly to rural incomes. …”
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Globalization of food and agriculture and the poor por von Braun, Joachim, Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio

“…They examine the different interactions between the forces influencing and driving globalization—politics and governance; markets, capital investment, and labour; information and innovation; and health, social policies, and conflicts—and elements of the food chain—production, marketing, and consumption. …”
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A 1995 social accounting matrix for Zambia por Hausner, Ulrich

“…The result is a consistent and balanced SAM for Zambia in 1995 that comprises 28 activities, 27 commodities, 6 factors of production (4 labor categories, 1 capital, and 1 land account), 4 household types, and one account each for enterprises, government, rest-of-the-world, and investment/ savings. …”
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Agroindustrialization through institutional innovation: transactions costs, cooperatives and milk-market development in the Ethiopian highlands por Holloway, Garth, Nicholson, Charles F., Delgado, Christopher L., Staal, Steven, Ehui, Simeon

“…The techniques considered are a modern production practice (cross-bred cow use), a traditional production practice (indigenous-cow use), three intellectual-capital-forming variables (experience, education, extension), and the provision of infrastructure (as measured by time to transport milk to market). …”
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Impact of prime-age adult mortality on labor supply: Evidence from adolescents and women in South Africa por Yamauchi, Futoshi, Buthelezi, Thabani, Velia, Myriam

“…This, in turn, reduces investments in child schooling, given that the period over which capital is formed is long and the loan market is imperfect. …”
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Agriculture and climate change: Adaptation to climate change: Household impacts and institutional responses por Yamauchi, Futoshi, Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…In low-income settings, where formal insurance and government supports are limited, households tend to rely on informal coping strategies, such as transfers from friends and neighbors, remittances, or investments in a diverse range of assets, from livestock to human capital. When disaster-related shock affects only a few households at a time, informal mechanisms can be quite effective in dealing with the situation. …”
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Economic growth and distribution of income: A growth model to fit Ghanaian data por Nelson, Harumi T., Roe, Terry L., Diao, Xinshen

“…This paper exploits this literature by adapting and extending it to a multisector growth model with intermediate inputs, composite capital, and government revenue and expenditures, while accounting for income and expenditure, by quintile, of households in the modeled economy. …”
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