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Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Factors influencing the place of delivery in rural Meghalaya, India: A qualitative study

open access: yesJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2018
Background: In Meghalaya, only 51.4% expectant mothers go for any institutional delivery with a wide rural-urban gap causing morbidity and mortality in the mothers and the neonates.
Amrita Sarkar   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Food inflation pass‐through from agricultural imports in a small open economy

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper develops a new framework for quantifying cost pass‐through in a small open economy by estimating firm‐level markup responses to agricultural import price shocks. We show theoretically that markup adjustments depend on firms' reliance on imported inputs and demand curvature, generating heterogeneous inflationary effects across firm ...
Minseong Kang, Seungki Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Fungstien auf Terrmach (Fungus of Terror) and Hate from Ignorance concert flier, Walt Whitman High School, Bethesda, MD, October 8, 1982

open access: yes, 1982
Flier promoting a concert by Fungstien auf Terrmach (also known as Fungus of Terror) and Hate from Ignorance.

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Academic Integrity in the Era of Generative AI: Students’ Perceptions, Ethical Boundaries, and Risk-Taking Behavior in Nigerian Universities

open access: yesSystems and Computing
Context: This study examined the intersection of academic integrity and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) adoption among students in Nigerian universities, addressing a critical gap in empirical, student-centered research from the Global South.
Ignatius Ogbaga   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Can Ignorance Be Bliss? Imperfect Information as a Positive Influence in Political Institutions

open access: yesMichigan Law Review, 1990
I. THE VALUE OF INFORMATION IN PUBLIC DECISIONMAKING UNDER THE LAW-AND-ECONOMICS MODEL 925 A. General Problems with Limited Information ........ 925 B. The Influence of Special Interest Groups in Public L aw 930 C. Solutions to the Special Interest Group Problem ..... 932 II. THE VALUE OF INFORMATION UNDER THE CIVIC VIRTUE MODEL 934 A .
openaire   +2 more sources

Using pre‐ and post‐entry data to identify the effect of ethanol plant entry on the spatial pattern of corn prices: A study in Indiana

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract We estimate the long‐run effect of ethanol plant entry on local corn prices using a long‐horizon difference‐in‐differences framework that combines matching with fixed effects while explicitly accounting for treatment intensity and spatial heterogeneity.
Jinho Jung   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Evolutionary Stability of Optimism, Pessimism and Complete Ignorance [PDF]

open access: yes
We provide an evolutionary foundation to evidence that in some situations humans maintain optimistic or pessimistic attitudes towards uncertainty and are ignorant to relevant aspects of the environment.
Schipper, Burkhard C.
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John Rawls and the Pursuit of Social Justice in Contemporary Nigeria: A Philosophical Study

open access: yesJournal of Political Science: Bulletin of Yerevan University
This article examines the potential application of John Rawls's theory of justice as fairness to the contemporary sociopolitical situation in Nigeria. With a population of over 235 million people representing diverse ethnic and religious groups, Nigeria
Oladele Daniel Idowu   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

B/ordering and healthcare access for migrants with precarious status: The role of healthcare workers in counteracting restrictive policies

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In Canada, precarious migration is largely invisibilized. Nonetheless, b/ordering greatly affects people's realities by limiting access to social rights. In Quebec, migrants with precarious status (MPS) do not have access to healthcare, although Quebec has a “universal” healthcare coverage.
Émilie Pigeon‐Gagné   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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