Download or read book Understanding the Investment and Abandonment Behavior of Poor Households An Empirical Investigation written by Ruth Vargas Hill and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2008 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Investment and Abandonment Behavior of Rural Households written by Ruth Vargas Hill and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article uses models of irreversible investment under uncertainty to examine the investment and abandonment behavior of poor rural households. It considers the decision of Ugandan coffee-farming households to invest in or abandon coffee trees. The observed levels of investment and abandonment are found to be consistent with models of investment that allow for irreversibility, uncertainty, fixed costs, and liquidity constraints. The findings highlight the importance of addressing volatility, irreversibility, fixed costs, and liquidity constraints in order to increase households' responsiveness to changes in the fundamentals and to enable households to recover from shocks to their capital stock.

Download or read book Migration Poverty and Inequality Evidence from Burkina Faso written by F.S. Wouterse and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2008 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Analyzing the Determinants of Farmers Choice of Adaptation Methods and Perceptions of Climate Change in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia written by Temesgen Deressa, R. M. Hassan, Tekie Alemu, Mahmud Yesuf, and Claudia Ringler and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Biosafety at the Crossroads An Analysis of South Africa s Marketing and Trade Policies for Genetically Modified Products written by Debdatta Sengupta and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2008 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Economic Transformation in Theory and Practice What are the Messages for Africa written by Clemens Breisinger and Xinshen Diao and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2008 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Race to the Top and Race to the Bottom Tax Competition in Rural China written by Xiaobo Zhang and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2008 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Updated Look at the Recovery of Agricultural Productivity in Sub Saharan Africa written by Alejandro Nin Pratt and Bingxin Yu and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book India Shadow WTO Agricultural Domestic Support Notifications written by Munisamy Gopinath and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Agricultural Growth and Investment Options for Poverty Reduction in Uganda written by Samuel Benin, James Thurlow, Xinshen Diao, Allen Kebba, and Nelson Ofwono and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book China Shadow WTO Agricultural Domestic Support Notifications written by Fuzhi Cheng and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Agricultural Growth and Investment Options for Poverty Reduction in Zambia written by James Thurlow, Samuel Benin, Xinshen Diao, Henrietta Kalinda, and Thomson Kalinda and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Biofuels Poverty and Growth A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis of Mozambique written by Channing Arndt, Rui Benfica, Finn Tarp, James Thurlow, and Rafael Uaiene and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2009 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper assesses the implications of large-scale investments in biofuels for growth and income distribution. We find that biofuels investment enhances growth and poverty reduction despite some displacement of food crops by biofuels. Overall, the biofuel investment trajectory analyzed increases Mozambique's annual economic growth by 0.6 percentage points and reduces the incidence of poverty by about 6 percentage points over a 12-year phase-in period. Benefits depend on production technology. 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, compared with the more capital-intensive plantation approach. Moreover, the benefits of outgrower schemes are enhanced if they result in technology spillovers to other crops. These results should not be taken as a green light for unrestrained biofuels development. Rather, they indicate that a carefully designed and managed biofuels policy holds the potential for substantial gains.

Download or read book Vulnerability and the Impact of Climate Change in South Africa s Limpopo River Basin written by Sharon Shewmake and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2008 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Agricultural Growth and Investment Options for Poverty Reduction in Malawi written by Samuel Benin, James Thurlow, Xinshen Diao, Christen McCool, and Franklin Simtowe and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2009 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agriculture employs three-quarters of the population of Malawi. It makes up more than forty percent of the economy and sixty percent of all exports. Yet productivity in agriculture--measured as the amount of output for a given amount of inputs--is considerably lower than it could be, given Malawi's agricultural resources. Efforts to expand the economy and reduce poverty must involve agriculture. Where should the Government of Malawi invest?

Download or read book Publish or Patent Knowledge Dissemination in Agricultural Biotechnology written by Bonwoo Koo and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2008 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Agricultural Exit Problems Causes and Consequences written by Derek Headey, Dirk Bezemer, and Peter B. Hazell and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: