Resultados de búsqueda - "capitalism"

Market institutions and transaction costs influencing trader performance in live animal marketing in rural Ethiopian markets por Jabbar, M.A., Benin, Samuel, Gabre-Madhin, E.Z., Paulos, Z.

“…In this paper, the hypothesis that performance of trading firms depends on their assets (physical, financial, human capital and social capital) and trading practices is tested with data from a sample of 131 live animal traders in 38 rural Ethiopian highland markets. …”
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Evaluación integral del impacto de los bienes y servicios ecosistémicos provistos por el Parque Nacional Marino Ballena sobre las estrategias y medios de vida locales por Steinvorth Rojas, Karine

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Socialt kapital hos Svenska skogsägare : från grannar till sektorsråd por Lager, Kristoffer

“…Social capital is a relatively new concept that has received considerable attention in various community branches. …”

Learning from a learning initiative por Mosquera Echeverry, Diana Marcella, Mosquera Echeverry, Ėrika Eliana, Rendón Gallón, Álvaro, Pemberthy Gallo, Luz Stella

“…In Colombia, the Inter-Institutional Research Group on Regional Competitiveness Models has been running a series of experience capitalization processes for several years, modifying the approach to meet the needs of its members and partner organisations. …”
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Getting institutions “Right” for whom? Credit constraints and the impact of property rights on the quantity and composition of investment por Carter, Michael R., Olinto, Pedro

“…Yet when the credit supply effect is muted, property rights reform would be expected to induce liquidity‐constrained farms to reduce investment in movable capital even as they increase investment in attached capital. …”
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A better programme for mentoring youths por Atuya, Caleb A.

“…The Kenya Livestock Producers Association (KLPA) is working to institutionalise the experience capitalization approach in its M&E department by developing specific Terms of Reference (TOR) which will be used in the ongoing and subsequent projects that KLPA is engaged in. …”
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Leadership as community capacity building A study on the impact of leadership development training on community por Emery, Mary, Fernandez Baca, Edith, Gutiérrez Montes, Isabel A., Butler Flora, Cornelia

“…Keywords: Appreciative Inquiry, capacity building, Community Capitals Framework, evaluation, leadership development…”
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Perceived social norms and agripreneurial intention among youths in eastern DRC por Ephrem, A.N., Dontsop Nguezet, Paul M., Murimbika, M., Bamba, Z., Manyong, Victor

“…This study examined the extent to which perceived social norms and psychological capital affect youths’ intentions to pursue agribusiness opportunities in the Eastern DRC. …”
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Smallholder farmer resilience to water scarcity por Aguilar, F.X., Hendrawan, D., Cai, Z., Roshetko, J.M., Stallmann, J.

“…We studied the association between rural livelihood capitals (natural, human, social, financial, and physical) and resilience to water scarcity. …”
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The impact of PROGRESA on community social relationships: final report por Adato, Michelle

“…The research reported here examines these social costs, focusing on community social relationships, which can be seen as forms of social capital. Social capital is widely believed to be a factor in people’s ability to move out of poverty and facilitating development; thus, in addition to the intrinsic importance of strengthened or weakened social relationships, the extent to which PROGRESA contributes to or detracts from social capital has implications for the achievement of the program’s ultimate aims. …”
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Transfers, nutrition programming, and economic well-being: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh por Ahmed, Akhter, Hoddinott, John F., Roy, Shalini, Sraboni, Esha

“…In particular, few studies have assessed whether nutrition programming may induce reallocation of transfer resources from physical capital to human capital. Scarce evidence also exists as to whether these tradeoffs depend on the transfer modality. …”
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Determinants of household food access among small farmers in the Andes: Examining the path por Leah, J., Pradel, W., Cole, Donald C., Prain, Gordon, Creed-Kanashiro, Hilary M., Carrasco, M.V.

“…We examined the associations among domains representing livelihood assets (human capital, social capital, natural capital, physical capital and financial capital) and household food access.Cross-sectional survey (two questionnaires) on livelihood assets.Metropolitan Pillaro, Ecuador; Cochabamba, Bolivia; and Huancayo, Peru.Households (n570) involved in small-scale agricultural production in 2008.Food access, defined as the number of months of adequate food provisioning in the previous year, was relatively good; 41 % of the respondents indicated to have had no difficulty in obtaining food for their household in the past year. …”
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Prosperity prospects in contested forest areas: evidence from community forestry development in Guatemala and Nicaragua por Stoian, D., Rodas, A., Arguello, J.

“…Human capital was sufficiently developed for managing forests, but less so for processing wood and doing business. …”
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Individers användning av socialt kapital i den kollektiva utvecklingen av lokalsamhällen por Elf, Frans

Livelihood assets’ influence on Ugandan farmers’ control practices for Banana Xanthomonas Wilt (BXW) por Pagnani, Tiziana, Gotor, Elisabetta, Kikulwe, Enoch Mutebi, Caracciolo, Francesco

“…Farmers’ decisions about the extent of adoption are instead negatively influenced by natural capital and positively associated with social capital. …”
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The impact of CAFTA on employment, production, and poverty in Honduras por Morley, Samuel, Nakasone, Eduardo, Piñeiro, Valeria

“…That is what the maquila simulation does, because maquila uses a lot of unskilled labor relative to skilled labor and capital. Alternatively the supply of capital can be increased by increasing the rate of capital formation. …”
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A qualitative study exploring women’s empowerment in coffee cooperatives in Chiapas, Mexico por Eissler, Sarah, Rubin, Deborah, de Anda, Victoria

“…In this report, we present findings of a qualitative study of coffee cooperatives supported by Root Capital in Chiapas, Mexico and how Root Capital engages with them to advance women’s economic empowerment, among other objectives. …”
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中国产品市场与资本市场中的渐进改革与扭曲 por Zhang, Xiaobo, Tan, Kong-Yam

“…In this paper we argue that as rents from the product markets were squeezed out during the reform process, rent-seeking behavior shifted to the factor markets, especially the capital and land markets. The reform process now needs to be deepened to ensure that the factor markets also become more integrated and efficient.…”
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Livelihood Interest Groups for sustainable initiatives por Verzola, Leonora K.

“…LAF provides start-up capital to farmer groups to enable them to initiate group businesses. …”
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1974 CGIAR Integrative Report por CGIAR Secretariat

“…It closes with a discussion of the outlook for system finance.Revisions were made in paragraphs dealing with center capital expenditures and working capital. The section on variations from planned expenditure was redrafted. …”
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