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

American 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, Gashaw T. Abate, Seid Yimam, Rui Benfica, David J. Spielman, Frank Place   +5 more
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A hybrid monthly electricity demand forecasting model combining an Hodrick-Prescott filter, recurrent neural networks, and autoregressive integrated moving average

Energy and AI
The coexistence of growth trends and seasonal fluctuations in monthly electricity demand presents significant forecasting challenges. Therefore, this study proposes a univariate time series forecasting approach that applies the Hodrick-Prescott (HP ...
Zhenyu Su, Juan Zhang, Zhehan Yang, Leihao Ma   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of the World Bank in Controlling Corruption [PDF]

, 1997
In 1997, Professor of Law and Political Science, Susan Rose-Ackerman of Yale University, delivered the Georgetown Law Center’s seventeenth Annual Philip A. Hart Memorial Lecture: The World Bank’s Role in Controlling Corruption.
Rose-Ackerman, Susan
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Redistributive land reforms, agricultural productivity, and structural change: New cross‐national evidence

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra, Abdulaziz B. Shifa, Lan Anh Tong, Mehmet A. Ulubasoglu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Election Law and White Identity Politics [PDF]

, 2019
The role of race in American politics looms large in several election law doctrines. Regrettably, though, these doctrines’ analyses of race, racial identity, and the relationships between race and politics often lack sophistication, historical context ...
Sellers, Joshua S.
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Inflation, Race, and Legislation—The Erosion in the Real Value of Monetary Compensation for Miners' Occupational Lung Disease in South Africa, 1973–2024

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background For much of the 20th century, the South African mining industry had a statutory compensation system for pneumoconiosis and tuberculosis characterized by gross racial inequality. This study examines the impact of inflation over the period 1973–2024 on the real value of miners' lung disease compensation, including the effect of the ...
Martin Nicol, Jim teWaterNaude, Barry Kistnasamy, Rodney Ehrlich   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The moderating role of academic achievement attribution in shaping the impact of negative life events on adolescent problem behaviors and school dropout tendency

BMC Psychology
Purpose This study explores how negative life events influence dropout tendencies through internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors, with a particular focus on the moderating effect of academic achievement attribution tendencies on the ...
Da Yi, Xing Xu, Qingqi Zhang, Ai Ma, Xiaoqian Liu, Cheng Lian   +5 more
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Institutional trust, Public Universities and Political Socialization in the Islamic Republic of Iran [PDF]

Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, 2019
In this paper, we try to examine the relationship between the three concepts of institutional trust, university, and political socialization. Institutional trust is one of the most important assets and needs of each institution to advance its functions ...
M.B. Khoramshad, F. Souri
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The Canon(s) of Constitutional Law: An Introduction [PDF]

, 2000
Any discipline has a canon, a set of themes that organize the way in which people think about the discipline. Or, perhaps, any discipline has a number of competing canons. Is there a canon of constitutional law?
Tushnet, Mark V.
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RIGHT TO ADEQUATE HOUSING IN LEBANON [PDF]

, 2020
“The right to adequate housing” is guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in its article (25) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in article 11.
HOURI, OMAR, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law and Political Science
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