Resultados de búsqueda - "capitalism"

Can labor market imperfections explain changes in the inverse farm size-productivity relationship? Longitudinal evidence from rural India por Deininger, Klaus, Jin, Songqing, Liu, Yanyan, Singh, Sudhir K.

“…A key reason was the substitution of capital for labor in response to nonagricultural labor demand. …”
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Strengthening resilience of rural households through improved social protection por CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets

“…Adequate social protection programs help vulnerable people address immediate needs, protect and augment their assets and human capital, and move out of poverty. PIM’s research on social protection, led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in partnership with governments and development agencies, has supported increased investment in social protection programs, reaching roughly 8 million beneficiaries in Ethiopia, more than one million beneficiaries in Bangladesh, and more than one million in Tanzania.…”
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Firm heterogeneity in food safety provision: Evidence from aflatoxin tests in Kenya por Moser, Christine, Hoffmann, Vivian

“…We find a strong negative correlation between price and contamination rates, which is consistent with certain brands investing more in quality to avoid loss of reputational capital.…”
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Collective action within the household: Insights from natural resource management por Doss, Cheryl, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

“…Comparison with the household literature also points to areas to strengthen the resource management literature through greater emphasis on human capital issues, including gender, health, and education.…”
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Africa's manufacturing puzzle: Evidence from Tanzanian and Ethiopian firms por Diao, Xinshen, Ellis, Mia, McMillan, Margaret S., Rodrik, Dani

“…Large, more productive firms use highly capital-intensive techniques, in line with global technology trends but significantly greater than what would be expected based on these countries’ income levels or relative factor endowments.…”
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Ending hunger by 2050: crucial investments and policies por Runge, C. Ford, Senauer, Benjamin, Pardey, Philip G., Rosegrant, Mark W.

“…To end hunger and prevent the recurrence of famine and starvation, we need to take the following steps: invest in public health, child nutrition, education, women’s and girls’ social status, and other components of human capital; reform public institutions and create innovative funding and partnership arrangements; change government policies at all levels to be both pro-poor and pro-growth; increase funding for scientific and technological research to boost agricultural production and efficiency; and develop specific policies and institutions to deal with environmental degradation caused by population growth. …”
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Is PROGRESA working? Summary of the results of an evaluation by IFPRI por Skoufias, Emmanuel, McClafferty, Bonnie

“…Mexico’s Programa Nacional de Educación, Salud y Alimentación (PROGRESA) is a major government program aimed at developing the human capital of poor households. Targeting its benefits directly to the population in extreme poverty in rural areas, it seeks to alleviate current poverty through monetary and in-kind benefits, as well as to reduce future levels of poverty by encouraging investments in education, health, and nutrition. …”
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Does Guanxi matter to nonfarm employment? por Zhang, Xiaobo, Li, Guo

“…Previous studies have identified human capital as a key factor determining the selection of workers in the rural nonfarm economy. …”
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Structural change and economic growth in China por Fan, Shenggen, Zhang, Xiaobo, Robinson, Sherman

“…It is found that the returns to capital investment in both agricultural production and rural enterprises are much higher than those in urban sectors, indicating underinvestment in rural areas. …”
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Biofuels, poverty, and growth: A computable general equilibrium analysis of Mozambique por Arndt, Channing, Benfica, Rui, Tarp, Finn, Thurlow, James, Uaiene, Rafael

“…Our results indicate that an outgrower approach to producing biofuels is more pro-poor, due to the greater use of unskilled labor and accrual of land rents to smallholders in this system, compared with the more capital-intensive plantation approach. Moreover, the expected benefits of outgrower schemes will be further enhanced if they result in technology spillovers to other crops.…”
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Marriage behavior response to prime-age adult mortality: Evidence from Malawi por Yamauchi, Futoshi, Ueyama, Mika

“…The death of prime-age adults decreases household income and, thus, decreases investment in human capital for the next generation. For individuals, high prime-age adult mortality influences people’s perceptions on potential risks in family formation such as finding a marriage partner. …”
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2019 Social Accounting Matrix for Colombia por International Food Policy Research Institute, Bioversity International

“…Factors are disaggregated into labor, agricultural land, and capital. Labor is further disaggregated across three education categories. …”
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Socially inclusive and equitable approaches for resilient livestock systems por Bullock, Renee, DuttaGupta, Tanaya, Triana-Angel, Natalia

“…Women, men, youth and marginalized social groups obtain differential access to essential resources that underpin resilience (e.g. services, knowledge and capital). Context-specific factors that significantly influence these processes include geography and rurality, livestock systems, mobility, ethnicity and conflict. …”
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The crop–livestock–soil nutrient–water nexus in mixed farming system: a research gap in West Africa Region por Igbadun, H. E., Ojeleye, O. A., Mabhaudhi, T., Cofie, Olufunke O.

“…Mixed farming systems are a sustainable closed-loop model for crop–livestock systems, focusing on structure, practices, logic, social, cultural, economic, climatic, and institutional capital interactions. However, literature on crop–livestock–soil–water interactions is scarce, with few separating crop and livestock water productivity in mixed systems. …”
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Ceasefire talks: What’s at stake for Ukraine’s agriculture sector and global food security? por Welsh, Caitlin, Dodd, Emma, Glauber, Joseph W.

“…At the same time, Russia has capitalized on Ukraine’s agricultural losses and the related increase in global food insecurity by increasing exports of its own grain to food-insecure countries. …”
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2018 Social Accounting Matrix for Rwanda por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Factors are disaggregated into labor, agricultural land, and capital. Labor is further disaggregated across three education categories. …”
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Investing in resilience: Climate risks and opportunities in Ethiopia's Key agricultural value chains. Investor brief for policymakers por ImpactSF, Tetratech, Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), Mercy Corps Agrifin, Ethiopian Agricultural Tranformation Agency (ATI), Ministry of Agriculture, Bioversity International and International Center of Tropical Agriculture, Gates Foundation

“…Investor brief for commercial capital providers: hdl.handle.net/10568/177045 …”
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Constraints and opportunities in rattan production-to-consumption systems in Asia por Belcher, B.

“…Cases were selected to represent a range of management and capital intensity at different stages. Strong similarities among the cases are explained by characteristics of the material and similar policy treatments among the four countries. …”
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Agricultural technology and forests: a recapitulation por Angelsen, A., Kaimowitz, D.

“…Another critical effect is that new technologies can help relax farmers' capital constraints, which may lead to higher or lower deforestation depending on how they invest their additional funds. …”
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Technological change and deforestation: a theoretical overview por Angelsen, A., Soest, D.P. van, Kaimowitz, D., Bulte, E.

“…The latter has to do with how the technologies modify the labour and capital constraints that farmers face. Then, the chapter shifts to the macro level and discusses how aggregate changes in output supply and input demand affect prices, wages, and migration. …”
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