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The Indirect Impact of Smallholder Vegetable Production on Children's Nutrition Outcomes in Rural Vietnam

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022
Childhood undernutrition, particularly stunting, wasting, and micronutrient deficiencies, remains a major health concern in rural Vietnam. While literature suggests leveraging agriculture to improve child nutrition via agricultural diversification ...
Christian Genova   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Market Participation and Sunspot Equilibria [PDF]

open access: yesThe Review of Economic Studies, 1995
Summary: We investigate the structure of competitive equilibria in an exchange economy parametrized by (i) endowments and (ii) restrictions on market participation. For arbitrary regular endowments, if few consumers are restricted, there are no sunspot equilibria.
Balasko, Yves, Cass, David, Shell, Karl
openaire   +2 more sources

The impact of diabetes on labour market participation: a systematic review of results and methods. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2019
BackgroundDiabetes mellitus is a major chronic disease, which is connected to direct and indirect costs and productivity losses. However, its effects on labour market participation are not straightforward to identify, nor are they consistently included ...
Pedron S   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Reference Dependence and Market Participation [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
This paper finds optimal portfolios for the reference-dependent preferences by Kőszegi and Rabin with piecewise linear gain–loss utility in a one-period model with a safe and a risky asset. If the return of the risky asset is highly dispersed relative to its potential gains, two personal equilibria arise, one of them including risky investments and ...
Paolo Guasoni, Andrea Meireles-Rodrigues
openaire   +2 more sources

How does who-you-sell-to affect your extent of market participation? evidence from smallholder maize farmers in Northern Ghana

open access: yesCogent Economics & Finance, 2023
This study examines the effect of marketing channel choice on the extent of market participation, with the goal of helping farm managers and policymakers to identify ways of enhancing market participation outcomes.
Agness Mzyece   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Commuting Time and the Gender Gap in Labor Market Participation

open access: yesSocial Science Research Network, 2020
This paper investigates the contribution of increasing travel times to the persistent gender gap in labor market participation. In doing so, we estimate the labor supply elasticity of commuting time from a sample of men and women in US cities using ...
Ĺıdia Farré   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Effect of Rural Road Transport on Crop Commercialization: Evidence from the Ethiopian Living Standard Measurement Survey

open access: yesEthiopian Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities, 2017
Ethiopia has adopted commercialization of smallholder agriculture as a policy tool for agricultural development and rural transformation thereby to improve rural welfare. Towards this end, the government has given policy focus to rual road infrastracture.
Noad Mekonnen, Bamlaku Alamirew
doaj   +1 more source

Integrated Multiscale Design, Market Participation, and Replacement Strategies for Battery Energy Storage Systems

open access: yesIEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 2020
Increased dependence on non-dispatchable energy sources has created a need for flexible energy storage systems capable of providing peak shaving and ancillary services.
Farshud Sorourifar   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Constraints to commercialisation of smallholder agriculture in Tanintharyi division, Myanmar

open access: yesJournal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics, 2019
Myanmar is a country in rapid economic and political transition, with opportunities emerging for its smallholders to benefit from current economic growth.
Shaun Snoxell, Michael Lyne
doaj   +1 more source

Determinants of market participation and intensity of marketed surplus of smallholder chickpea producers in Este woreda

open access: yesLegume Science, 2022
In Ethiopia, chickpea is an important legume crop, particularly in Este district. It is a source of food and provides cash income for majority of smallholder farmers.
Chernet Worku   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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