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Trade and migration with renewable natural resources: Out-of-steady-state dynamics

López, Ramón; Schiff, Maurice - 2010

Commodity price increases associated with the entry of China, India and other countries into the world economy has led to increased pressure on common-property renewable natural resources (NR). The problem is particularly worrisome for economies that obtain a large share of their income from the...

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Trade and Migration with Renewable Natural Resources: Out-of-Steady-State Dynamics

López, Ramón; Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

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Building Trust in Rural Producer Organizations in Senegal: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Bernard, Tanguy; Frölich, Markus; Landmann, Andreas; … - 2015

Trust is crucial for successful collective action. A prime example is collective commercialization of agricultural produce through producer organizations. We conduct a cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural Senegal in which we vary the number and the type of smallholder farmers - members...

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Strengthening Producer Organizations to Increase Market Access of Smallholder Farmers in Uganda

Vargas Hill, Ruth; Maruyama, Eduardo; Olapade, Markus; … - 2020

procuring inputs and marketing produce, where smallholders face disproportionately high transaction costs. Producer …

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Short-Term Impacts of Targeted Cash Grants and Business Development Services: Experimental Evidence from Entrepreneurs in Burkina Faso

Grimm, Michael; Soubeiga, Sidiki; Weber, Michael - 2021

Most support programs targeted at small firms in low- and middle-income countries fail to generate transformative effects at a large scale due to bad targeting, too little flexibility, and the limited size of the support, among others. This paper assesses the short-term effects of a randomized...

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Can Crop Purchase Programs Reduce Poverty and Improve Welfare in Rural Communities? Evidence from the Food Reserve Agency in Zambia

Fung, Winnie; Liverpool-Tasie, Saweda; Mason, Nicole; … - 2015

The last decade has seen a resurgence of parastatal crop marketing institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, many of which cite improving food security and incomes as key goals. However, there is limited empirical evidence on the welfare effects of these programs. This article considers one such...

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Smallholders, Market Failures, and Agricultural Production: Evidence from India

Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2020

smallholders but am unable to do so for non-smallholders. This leads to important differences in production behavior: smallholders … reallocate labor across activities less in response to intra-seasonal crop price changes than do non-smallholders. A … counterfactual exercise indicates smallholders could increase revenue by almost nine percent if they were to reallocate labor …

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Does Access to Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Reduce Women Household Burden? Evidence from India

Su, Qinghe; Azam, Mehtabul - 2022

Using the nationally representative Indian Time Use Survey, we study whether the use of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) as cooking fuel affects the time spent in cooking and employment activities for Indian rural women. We instrument use of LPG by a leave-one-out spatial instrument constructed by...

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Minimum Wages and Unemployment during Economic Shocks

Merfeld, Joshua D.; Sharp, Matthew - 2023

This paper studies whether a minimum wage changes how labour markets respond to economic shocks. Using data from South Africa, we show that an agricultural minimum wage leads to higher mean wages with no significant impacts on mean employment. However, these positive aggregate outcomes hide...

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The Colonial Legacy in India: How Persistent Are the Effects of Historical Institutions?

Iyer, Lakshmi; Weir, Coleson - 2024

Using updated data, we analyze the long-run effects of two British colonial institutions established in India. Iyer (2010) showed that areas under direct colonial rule had fewer schools, health centers, and roads than areas under indirect colonial rule. Two decades later, we find that these...

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