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Does Growth Enhancement Support Scheme (GESS) contribute to youth development in informal farm entrepreneurship? Evidence from rural communities in Nigeria

Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N.; Asongu, Simplice - 2020

) on youth development in informal farm entrepreneurship in Nigeria. Its special focus is to investigate the impact of the … GESS on rural youths' adoption of new technologies needed to sustainably increase food security in Nigeria. Design … 800 rural youths were sampled across the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria. Findings - The result from the use of a …

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Non-Farm Enterprise Productivity and Spatial Autocorrelation in Rural Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria

Owoo, Nkechi S.; Naudé, Wim - 2014

from the geo-referenced 2011 Ethiopian Rural Socioeconomic Survey (ERSS) and the 2010/2011 Nigeria General Household Survey … productive. In Nigeria, we find evidence for spatial autocorrelation at the individual enterprise level but not at the community … significant determinants of the labour productivity of non-farm enterprises in Ethiopia and Nigeria. This is the first time, to …

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The Transformation of Rural Labour Systems in Colonial and Post-Colonial Northern Nigeria

Kohnert, Dirk - In: Journal of Peasant Studies 13 (1986) 4, pp. 258-271

Northern Nigeria is meant to provide both a better qualitative and quantitative idea of this interrelation. After an analysis …La transformation des systèmes du travail ruraux dans l’époque coloniale et post-coloniale dans le nord du Nigeria: L … rural dans le nord du Nigeria est destiné à fournir à la fois une meilleure idée qualitative et quantitative de cette …

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Embeddedness of Entrepreneurs in Rural Areas: A Comparative Rough Set Data Analysis

Gulumser, Aliye Ahu; Nijkamp, Peter; Baycan-Levent, Tuzin; … - 2009

This study aims to identify the critical factor(s) that determine the embeddedness level (EL) of rural entrepreneurs. In order to achieve this aim, existing applied studies on the embeddedness of entrepreneurs undertaken in different rural areas were systematically collected to create a database...

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Prosperity in rural Africa? Insights into wealth, assets, and poverty from longitudinal studies in Tanzania

Brockington, Dan (contributor); Noe, Christine (contributor) - 2021

What does it mean to say that rural areas of Africa are poor? Many people insist that in rural African populations poverty is prevalent. This is either because the smallholder agricultural practices are unproductive or it is because economic policies have not protected and promoted African...

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Sustainability of Rural Tourism and Promotion of Local Development

Ivona, Antonietta (contributor) - 2021

This Special Issue contains articles include, but not limited to, empirical, analytical, or design-oriented approaches to the following topics: Monitoring of carrying capacity and mechanisms for managing tourist flows in rural areas; Systems and tools to measure the social, economic, and...

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Women Empowerment and Intra-household Dietary Diversity in Nigeria

Tanankem, Belmondo V.; Efobi, Uchenna R.; Atata, Ngozi S. - 2016

This study used a nationally representative survey from the 2012-2013 World Bank’s General Household Survey for Nigeria …

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Poverty in Rural Cambodia: The Differentiated Impact of Linkages, Inputs and Access to Land

Engvall, Anders; Sjöberg, Örjan; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2007

and landless and between different regions. Inputs to agriculture are critical to the landowning poor whereas linkages …

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Interregionale Disparitäten und Entwicklung ländlicher Räume als regionalpolitische Herausforderung für die neuen EU-Mitgliedstaaten

Baum, Sabine; Weingarten, Peter - 2004

Seit Beginn der Transformation haben in den Ländern Mittel- und Osteuropas (MOEL) die interregionalen Disparitäten zugenommen. Insbesondere die Stadt-Land-Gegensätze haben sich verstärkt. Dieser Beitrag zeigt die Entwicklung der Disparitäten auf und diskutiert auf der Basis theoretischer...

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Mobile Arbeit aus sozioräumlicher Perspektive: Co-Working Spaces als Chance für suburbane und ländliche Räume?

Krasilnikova, Nadezda; Levin-Keitel, Meike - In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung / Spatial Research and … 80 (2022) 3, pp. 360-372

Die Arbeitswelt ist starken Veränderungen unterworfen. Mit den Prozessen der Digitalisierung nehmen die Möglichkeiten zu, ortsunabhängig zu arbeiten. Digitalbasierte Arbeitsformen fördern die Entwicklung der mobilen Arbeit am Rechner, an einem selbstbestimmten Ort, beispielsweise im...

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