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Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Index insurance, while heralded as a potential solution to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among agricultural households, has its own set of challenges, notably basis risk. Basis risk is the discrepancy between the insurance payout and losses incurred, posing a significant deterrent to the adoption of index insurance.
S. Lucille Blakeley +4 more
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Administrative SciencesCurrently, one of the most widely used marketing techniques is influencer marketing, but is its true impact on Romanians truly understood? This article aims to establish the perception of influencer marketing activities by Romanian consumers.
Anita Cornelia Szakal +6 more
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Public ‘say on pay’ activism in South Africa: Targets, challengers, themes and impact
South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 2019 Background: Shareholders and other stakeholders in South Africa are increasingly raising their concerns in public about seemingly excessive executive remuneration. Most of their criticism is rooted in the large and growing wage gap in the country.
Suzette Viviers +3 more
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Crop Insurance Design and On‐Farm Risk Adaptation
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The United States spends billions annually on crop insurance premium subsidies, yet the prevailing distance‐based guarantee design unintentionally rewards risk‐taking by linking subsidies to yield variability. We consider a simple redesign: define guarantees in terms of probability so that coverage reflects a consistent likelihood of indemnity.
Gerald Van Tassell, Alan P. Ker
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High School Vocational Counseling Role in Leveraging Students` Professional Inclinations
Amfiteatru Economic, 2014 The experience of many countries with a well-educated workforce highlights the important role of vocational counselling services for advantageous youth professional orientation.
Gabriel Brătucu +4 more
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10 year anniversary of the Journal APSTRACT: The history of an open access journal
Apstract: Applied Studies in Agribusiness and Commerce, 2017 The idea initiating the birth of the journal APSTRACT was initiated by András Nábrádi, during a 2005 AGRIMBA1 executive board meeting held in Aberdeen, UK.
Krisztián Kovács +3 more
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مجلة الدراسات الاقتصادية والادارية, 2023 The current research aims to explore the impact of servant leadership on the creative behavior of employees at a private college in Baghdad governorate, as the research adopted the subject of servant leadership as an independent variable, as well as ...
Muhammad Jassim Waheed +1 more
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On the Economics of US Agricultural Policy
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents an economic analysis of US agricultural policy, building on a modified version of Gardner's efficient redistribution. We argue that agricultural policy is motivated as an attempt to implement an efficient redistribution scheme that redistributes income toward farmers who, as a group, have been adversely affected by ...
Jean‐Paul Chavas
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Analysing employers’ expectations of employee skills in the South African tourism industry
SA Journal of Human Resource Management, 2014 Orientation: Owing to the nature of the tourism industry, which is highly service orientated, employees should possess certain skills such as self-reliance, people and certain specialist skills, and general employability when working in this industry ...
Faith N. Zwane +2 more
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Psychiatry Research, 2020 Implementation researchers have made notable progress in developing and testing implementation strategies (i.e., highly-specified methods used to help providers improve uptake of mental health evidence-based practices: EBPs). Yet, implementation strategies are not widely applied in healthcare organizations to improve delivery of EBPs.
Andria B, Eisman +4 more
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