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Urbanization and poverty have a two-way relationship. Using fixed-effects regression andpanel data from household … surveys, we estimate the effect of urbanization on welfare andpoverty of rural households in Vietnam. We find that … urbanization tends to increaselandlessness of rural households and to reduce their farm income. However, urbanizationhelps rural …
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This paper studies the link between migration, remittances and productive assets accumulation for a panel of poor rural households in Mexico over the period 1997- 2006. In a context of financial markets imperfections, migration may act as a substitute for imperfect credit and insurance provision...
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We study the impact of transportation infrastructure on agriculture and development in colonial Ghana. Two railway …. This attracted migrants to producing areas and the economic surplus drove urbanization. Using data at a very fine spatial … show that the economic boom in cocoa-producing areas was associated with demographic growth and urbanization. We _nd no …
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Past and current experiences can be studied in order to understand the main phenomena driving urbanization and thus to …
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The objective of this paper is to investigate the impacts of urbanization on human capital andeconomic growth in Africa …. It seeks to contribute to the urbanization-growth debate byinvestigating how urbanization is linked to human capital … accumulation and economic growth.More precisely, compared to previous studies on the urbanization-growth nexus, we (i …
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This article presents a new decomposition of unit labour costs into compensation per worker and labour productivity, which, in turn, is decomposed into e ffciency gains, technical progress and capital deepening. Data for Western European countries and the US show that the evolution of labour...
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This study aims at evaluating the actual profile of marginal productivity across the age groups within the workforce. As age-productivity profile might differ between occupations, we differentiate the workforce simultaneously by skills (low-skilled, high-skilled) and by age (young, middle-aged,...
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La recherche publique agronomique au Cameroun, comme dans d'autres pays subit une baisse de ses financments structurels despuis une quizaine d'années. Pour combler cette perte de ressources, les chercheurs se tournent de plus en, plus vers les entreprises privées. Cet article interroge les...
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Cet article s'intéresse au développement et à la mise en place d'une charte de l'emploi saisonnier au sein du secteur du végétal spécialisé. Cette charte constitue aux yeux des acteurs impliqués dans ce projet un outil emprunt d'une philosophie gestionnaire à n'en pas douter "...
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l'agriculture et l'agroalimentaire, l'article examine en quoi les démarches de chaîne de valeur, chaîne globale de …
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