The authors focus on policy interventions for improving irrigation water allocation decisions by including both macro and micro considerations in a unified analytical computable general equilibrium (CGE) framework. The approach is demonstrated, using the case of Morocco, by analyzing selected...

The pressure on an already stressed water situation in South Africa is predicted to increase significantly under climate change, plans for large industrial expansion, observed rapid urbanization, and government programs to provide access to water to millions of previously excluded people. The...

Agricultural production is heavily dependent on water availability in Turkey, where half the crop production relies on irrigation. Irrigated agriculture consumes about 75 percent of total water used, which is about 30 percent of renewable water availability. This study analyzes the likely...

Using data from the Groningen Growth and Development Center's Africa Sector Database and the Demographic and Health Surveys, we show that much of Africa's recent growth and poverty reduction has been associated with a substantive decline in the share of the labor force engaged in agriculture....

Purpose - In this paper, the authors suggest that Central Americans can use entrepreneurship to solve economic uncertainty in their home country and that entrepreneurship can contribute to reducing the number of undocumented migrants to the USA. Design/methodology/approach - The authors first...

It is increasingly emphasized that firms' innovation depends on external knowledge interaction in the field of economic geography. Global knowledge linkages and interaction plays crucial role in gaining competitive advantage for firms in developing countries because of their immature innovation...

Data heterogeneity, particularly noted in fields such as genetics, has been identified as a key feature of big data, posing significant challenges to innovation in knowledge and information. This paper focuses on characterizing and understanding the so-called "curse of heterogeneity" in gene...

The working-age share of Egypt's population (the share of the population 15-64) hovered around 54 percent between 1960 and 1990. Starting in 1990, fertility started declining significantly and the working-age share of the population reached an all-time high of 62.6 percent in 2010, before...

Purpose This paper theoretically and empirically analyzes the effects of the elderly's physical health status on their need for care and the choice of care models in China. Design/methodology/approach Empirically, the estimation results of a large-sample randomized intervention trial with...

Based on a panel fixed effect model, our paper explores the impact of digital transformation on the operation efficiency of Chinese A-share listed enterprises during 2009-2020. It conducts related robustness tests, mechanism analysis, and heterogeneity analysis to provide a comprehensive...