Sustainability and Localization of Health Infrastructure under CPEC 2.0: Toward a Self-Reliant Health System in Pakistan. [PDF]
Rui Y, Qiumei Q.
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How Video‐Based Information Affects Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Drone Services
ABSTRACT Professional service for digital technology like agricultural drones lowers transaction costs and scope thresholds for smallholders. Meanwhile, perceptual adoption barriers remain underexplored. We conduct a two‐stage choice experiment with a randomized video‐based information treatment among 384 Chinese crop farmers to measure its effect on ...
Hua Zhang +4 more
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Optimizing Budget Allocation for Digital Health Investments Using Metaheuristic Algorithms: A Cost-Impact Analysis for Public Health Systems. [PDF]
Dayi F +4 more
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ABSTRACT To increase farmer adoption of green practices, the EU Common Agricultural Policy includes both mandatory (conditionality) and voluntary instruments (eco‐schemes–ECS– and more demanding, multi‐annual agri‐environment‐climate measures –AECM–). Building on the experiment of Barreiro‐Hurle et al.
L. Sanchez‐Mata +4 more
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A project-level dataset of Chinese Belt and Road energy investments 2013-2023. [PDF]
Yin G, Calzadilla A, Bleischwitz R.
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Keeping Pace or Falling Behind? The Depth of Latin American Trade Agreements
ABSTRACT This article examines whether Latin American countries are keeping pace with global trends in trade agreement depth or falling behind. Using 681 agreements (1970–2019), we develop the Depth Index of Trade Agreements (DITA) to weight provisions endogenously through factor analysis based on co‐occurrence patterns.
Raphael Gomes da Silva +2 more
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Plasticity of vibratory courtship in response to nuptial gift quality in male <i>Pisaura mirabilis</i>. [PDF]
Oberweiser MM, Hébert ME, Eberhard MJB.
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Temporary Programs, Lasting Questions: Ad Hoc Assistance in the U.S. Farm Safety Net
ABSTRACT Large ad hoc assistance programs have returned to U.S. farm policy since 2017, operating alongside a more developed safety net built around federally subsidized crop insurance, Title I commodity programs, and standing disaster assistance. This paper reviews the renewed use of ad hoc assistance, documents its recent scale using USDA data, and ...
Alejandro Plastina +1 more
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Equity of opportunity in China's essential public health services: influencing factors and moderating mechanisms. [PDF]
Zhang Y, Cheng J, Liu L, Wang H, Zhan X.
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Rural Labor Supply and Economic Opportunities: Commuting, Migration, Tariffs, and Immigration
ABSTRACT Some rural counties remain dependent on agricultural or manufacturing jobs, but an increasing proportion have diversified economics. Rural counties also differ in their abilities to commute to an urban market characterized by higher wages and labor productivity.
Peter F. Orazem, Mary C. Ahearn
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