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Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor-Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities and Optimal Farm Size
Foster, Andrew D. - 2017
scales. Using data from the India ICRISAT VLS panel survey we find evidence consistent with these conditions, suggesting that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946022
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Analyzing the Impact of the World's Largest Public Works Project on Crime
Das, Satadru - 2016
India started the implementation of a rural public works program in 2006, covering all districts of the country within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985574
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Positive outcomes between crop diversity and agricultural employment worldwide
Garibaldi, Lucas A.; Pérez-Méndez, Néstor - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 164 (2019), pp. 1-12
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012193195
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Inter-district rice water productivity differences in Bangladesh : an empirical exploration and implications
Alauddin, Mohammad; Sharma, Bharat R. - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 93 (2013), pp. 210-218
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Human and nature dynamics (HANDY) : modeling inequality and use of resources in the collapse or sustainability of societies
Motesharrei, Safa; Rivas, Jorge; Kalnay, Eugenia - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 101 (2014), pp. 90-102
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Policies to Promote Growth and Economic Efficiency in Mexico
Arias, Javier - 2010
This paper discusses the problems facing the Mexican economy. It operates under a heavy burden of monopoly and regulation. We focus on two issues that should receive more attention in discussions of Mexican policy. (1) The family is under stress in Mexico and this retards the growth of skills of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135761
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How the West 'Invented' Fertility Restriction
Voigtländer, Nico - 2011
as servants in husbandry, where they remained unmarried until their mid-twenties. Where pastoral agriculture dominated …
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Changing Social Contracts : Beliefs and Dissipative Inclusion in Brazil
Alston, Lee J. - 2012
Social contracts about inequality and redistribution are country-specific. We rely on a model of inequality and redistribution where multiple steady states can emerge in given country. We link the model to the recent literature on beliefs and argue that beliefs are a major determinant of which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096858
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Convergence and Modernization Revisited
Barro, Robert J. - 2012
presence of beta convergence. For 34 countries-including China and India-observed since 1896, the dispersion of per capita GDP … particularly the incorporation of China and India into the world market economy. For 29 countries since 1919, the levels and trends …
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Genetic Diversity and the Origins of Cultural Fragmentation
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2013
Despite the importance attributed to the effects of diversity on the stability and prosperity of nations, the origins of the uneven distribution of ethnic and cultural fragmentation across countries have been underexplored. Building on the role of deeply-rooted biogeographical forces in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087880