During economic crises, governments often increase fiscal spending to stimulate the economy. While the fiscal spending surge is sometimes temporary, recessions are opportunities to revise the spending composition often in favor of expenditures in social programs and other public goods which tend...

The objective of this report is to take stock of the activities, motivations, impacts and challenges faced by the farms in Washington as they relate to agritourism and direct marketing. We characterize the agritourism entrepreneurship and direct marketing activities in different counties of the...

The objective of this article is to empirically estimate the effect of changes in extreme climatic temperature on different types of labor in the manufacturing and services sectors in the Philippines. We use a dataset compiled by pooling firm-level survey data in the Philippines from the World...