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Economic Analysis of Decentralisation in Rural Ghana
ISBN: 9783631503553 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Many countries around the world have been attempting for several reasons and with various degrees of intention and success to create or strengthen local governments in recent years. Ghana is one of these countries and since 1998 has been going through a decentralisation process, that is moving decision-making from the national (center) to the district and community levels a bottom up approach. Many rationales for decentralisation may be discerned in the literature and in practice. The most common theoretical rationales for decentralisation are: to attain allocative efficiency in the face of...
Many countries around the world have been attempting for several reasons and with various degrees of intention and success to create or strengthen loc...
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An International Nutrition Index: Concept and Analyses of Food Insecurity and Undernutrition at Country Levels
ISBN: 9783631504758 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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Robotics, Ai, and Humanity: Science, Ethics, and Policy
ISBN: 9783030541750 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This open access book examines recent advances in how artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics have elicited widespread debate over their benefits and drawbacks for humanity. The emergent technologies have for instance implications within medicine and health care, employment, transport, manufacturing, agriculture, and armed conflict. While there has been considerable attention devoted to robotics/AI applications in each of these domains, a fuller picture of their connections and the possible consequences for our shared humanity seems needed. This volume covers multidisciplinary research,... This open access book examines recent advances in how artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics have elicited widespread debate over their benefits... |
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Commercialization of Smallholder Horticultural Farming in Kenya: Poverty, Gender, and Institutional Arrangements
ISBN: 9783631653371 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This study assesses income and poverty effects of vegetable commercialization in Kenya with a special focus on gender issues and evaluates the performance of institutional arrangements that link small producers to the high-value vegetable supply chains. Using econometrics analysis of two rounds of rural household survey, the study reveals that the participation of smallholders in the domestic and export vegetable markets is declining. Weather risks, high costs of inputs and unskilled labour as well as erratic vegetable prices contribute to the declining trend. The impact evaluation of market...
This study assesses income and poverty effects of vegetable commercialization in Kenya with a special focus on gender issues and evaluates the perform...
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Determinants of Commercial Orientation and Sustainability of Agricultural Production of the Individual Farms in Romania
ISBN: 9783631546536 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 145 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Subsistence farming, a widespread phenomenon in developing countries, emerged as well in Central and East European and former Soviet Union countries during their transformation process from a centrally planned to a market economy. Romania is one of the Eastern European countries with a large share of subsistence farmers where the commercialization of agriculture could be a means of reducing rural poverty and increasing the competitiveness of agriculture, although with possibly detrimental effects on the environment. The study examines which constraints should be addressed to promote...
Subsistence farming, a widespread phenomenon in developing countries, emerged as well in Central and East European and former Soviet Union countries d...
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Education, Child Labor and Human Capital Formation in Selected Urban and Rural Settings of Pakistan
ISBN: 9783631626764 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Education is essential for human resource development and sustainable socio-economic development of a society, as it can facilitate economic growth through the broader application of knowledge, skills, and the creative strength of a society. The other positive and long-term outcomes of education include the reduction of poverty and inequality, improvement of health status and good governance in the implementation of socio-economic policies. Keeping in view the role that education through human capital formation can play in the development of Pakistan where the population of the children below...
Education is essential for human resource development and sustainable socio-economic development of a society, as it can facilitate economic growth th...
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The Impact of Information and Communication Technologies (Icts) on Rural Households: A Holistic Approach Applied to the Case of Lao People's Democrati
ISBN: 9783631506226 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Despite the plethora of discussions on the potentials of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for development, efforts to bridge the so-called digital divide have suffered from the lack of convincing evidences of the positive impact of the new technologies, especially on rural areas and households. The present study aims at identifying and measuring the positive impact of ICTs on rural households through a holistic approach integrating national, project and target group level analyses. With a case of the Rural Telecommunications Project in Lao PDR, the impact of telephone, the...
Despite the plethora of discussions on the potentials of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for development, efforts to bridge the so-c...
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Impact of Technological Innovation on the Poor: Integrated Aquaculture-Agriculture in Bangladesh
ISBN: 9783631671412 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The author examines the dynamics of participation in and welfare impact of integrated aquaculture-agriculture (IAA) value chain by using three-year panel data from indigenous households in the northern and north-western regions of Bangladesh. By different panel estimation methods he analyses the IAA value chain participation dynamics and indicates that education and household size, access to extensions and market information, community-based organisations (CBO) membership are positively associated with participation and continuing participation in IAA value chain activities. Welfare impact...
The author examines the dynamics of participation in and welfare impact of integrated aquaculture-agriculture (IAA) value chain by using three-year pa...
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Marginality: Addressing the Nexus of Poverty, Exclusion and Ecology
ISBN: 9789400770607 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 389 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book takes a new approach on understanding causes of extreme poverty and promising actions to address it. Its focus is on marginality being a root cause of poverty and deprivation. Marginality is the position of people on the edge, preventing their access to resources, freedom of choices, and the development of capabilities. The book is research based with original empirical analyses at local, national, and local scales; book contributors are leaders in their fields and have backgrounds in different disciplines. An important message of the book is that economic and ecological approaches...
This book takes a new approach on understanding causes of extreme poverty and promising actions to address it. Its focus is on marginality being a roo...
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Bio-Economics of Sustainable Land Management in Uganda
ISBN: 9783631512173 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 181 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Land degradation is a serious economic and environmental threat contributing to declining agricultural productivity, poverty and food insecurity. The extent and rate to which land degradation occurs is of growing concern, particularly in developing countries. Why do poor farm households deplete their soils? This case study of Uganda provides a better understanding of farm household economics in the context of sustainability issues. A bio-economic model has been developed to run scenarios of high relevance for the current reform process in the agricultural sector. Economic and ecological...
Land degradation is a serious economic and environmental threat contributing to declining agricultural productivity, poverty and food insecurity. The ...
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Institutional and Welfare Aspects of the Provision and Use of Information and Communication Technologies in the Rural Areas of Bangladesh and Peru
ISBN: 9783631501610 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Information and communication technologies, henceforth ICTs, have received enormous attention in recent times. During the decade of the 90s, there was a significant expansion in ICT infrastructure both in the context of industrialized and developing countries. Notwithstanding these facts, a digital divide exists between industrialized and developing nations and between urban-rich and rural-poor within nations. The present study addressed this issue under four research questions. The first is why access to ICTs is important. The second is how to provide access for the households living in...
Information and communication technologies, henceforth ICTs, have received enormous attention in recent times. During the decade of the 90s, there was...
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Health Insurance Demand and Health Risk Management in Rural China
ISBN: 9783631526248 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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From Potentials to Reality: Transforming Africa's Food Production: Investment and Policy Priorities for Sufficient, Nutritious and Sustainable Food Su
ISBN: 9783631853283 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book identifies ways in which Africa can realize its potential to secure a supply of food for affordable and healthy diets through the sustainable use of its own resources. The focus is on investment, cooperation, and policy action. The agenda proposed here is intended to be a long-term one, but one that should be initiated in the short term with concrete actions.
This book identifies ways in which Africa can realize its potential to secure a supply of food for affordable and healthy diets through the sustainabl...
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Determinants of Bank Lending in Thailand: An Empirical Examination for the Years 1992 to 1996
ISBN: 9783631505823 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Thailand experienced some of the world s fastest economic growth rates over the past four decades until the 1997 Baht devaluation and subsequent financial crisis. The dramatic financial collapse has raised doubts about the general efficiency of the Thai financial system. Until now, empirical knowledge about the lending process or behaviour in emerging markets has been extremely thin due to the lack of appropriate and reliable data. This study, which uses micro level bank data, examines systematic analysis of risk, relationships, and other factors in Thai bank lending decisions to assess the...
Thailand experienced some of the world s fastest economic growth rates over the past four decades until the 1997 Baht devaluation and subsequent finan...
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Rural Off-Farm Employment and Its Effects on Adoption of Labor Intensive Soil Conserving Measures in Tanzania
ISBN: 9783631546529 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 135 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This study analyzes two related aspects: households participation in off-farm employment as a livelihood strategy and the effects of participation in off-farm employment on households adoption of labor intensive soil conserving technologies. Several factors are significant but spatial econometric analysis reveals that model parameters vary substantially across space. In addition, households supplying labor off-farm are generally associated with reduced adoption of terraces, hedgerows and cut-offs. The negative impact of supplying labor off-farm can be moderately cushioned when households also...
This study analyzes two related aspects: households participation in off-farm employment as a livelihood strategy and the effects of participation in ...
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Incentives in Community-Based Health Insurance Schemes
ISBN: 9783631526873 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The author presents a promising tool to increase the coverage rate of community-based health insurance schemes (CBHI) and access to medical care for poor population groups in developing countries. He addresses a key problem of CBHI: Authorities cannot sanction non-members and membership cannot be enforced. Therefore, it is proposed to award membership by offering incentives such as raffle participation for joining a CBHI. This approach attracts new members and can be a motivation to continue membership payments of healthy insurance members. The results of an ex-ante demand analysis conducted...
The author presents a promising tool to increase the coverage rate of community-based health insurance schemes (CBHI) and access to medical care for p...
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Regional Integration Beyond the Traditional Trade Benefits: Labor Mobility Contribution: The Case of Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire
ISBN: 9783631533130 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) seeks at changing the weak intra-regional trade and the strong disparities between countries. How to achieve such an objective, given the heterogeneous profiles of the member countries such as Cote d Ivoire (Regional pole) and Burkina Faso (one of the poorest)? This is an important issue at stake. Intra-African migration flows is one of the best arguments for regional integration in the face of negligible goods and investment flows. The presence of migrants makes Burkina Faso a -share-holder- in Cote d Ivoire s economic success. Based on...
The West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) seeks at changing the weak intra-regional trade and the strong disparities between countries. How...
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The Economics of Volunteer Labor Supply: An Application to Countries of a Different Development Level
ISBN: 9783631513897 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 229 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Volunteerism represents a highly relevant institution for developed as well as developing countries. The potentials ascribed to voluntary work include its capacity to support public social welfare functions, build social capital, and mitigate unemployment problems. This study investigates four core aspects pertaining to volunteerism, and volunteer labor supply in particular, from an economic perspective. These encompass the analysis of the rise of the institution volunteerism, the estimation of the economic impact of voluntary labor contributions, the exploration of the underlying reasons for...
Volunteerism represents a highly relevant institution for developed as well as developing countries. The potentials ascribed to voluntary work include...
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Bio-Based Energy, Rural Livelihoods and Energy Security in Ethiopia
ISBN: 9783631666869 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This study explores issues of biomass energy use in relation to household welfare and it assesses Ethiopia s future energy security with a focus on long-term model of the energy sector, and institutional arrangements required for decentralized energy initiatives. Data from Ethiopian rural households reveal negative welfare effects associated with traditional biomass energy utilization, while increases in the opportunity cost of fuelwood collection is associated negatively with allocation of labour to agriculture and fuelwood use. It appears that investment on integrated energy source...
This study explores issues of biomass energy use in relation to household welfare and it assesses Ethiopia s future energy security with a focus on lo...
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Household Food Consumption, Women's Asset and Food Policy in Indonesia
ISBN: 9783631640043 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 179 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This study addresses the issue of household food consumption, its relation to gender and to food policy in Indonesia. Using econometric analyses of the Indonesian Family Life Survey, the study reveals that food expenditure patterns, particularly those of the poor households, warrant food policy attention. The poor households spent more on alcohol and tobacco goods when their income increased. The impact evaluation of the -Rice for the Poor- program reveals that the program enabled beneficiaries to increase expenditures on nutrient-rich, animal source foods; however, unintended program impacts...
This study addresses the issue of household food consumption, its relation to gender and to food policy in Indonesia. Using econometric analyses of th...
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