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Heliyon, 2022 Rigorous efforts should be channeled to the current low adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices (CSAPs) in sub-Saharan African countries to improve food production.
Collins M. Musafiri +7 more
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Heliyon, 2020 Most smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are adversely affected by low soil fertility, land degradation and climate change-related shocks such as drought. These problems lead to low productivity and low household income.
George Magambo Kanyenji +3 more
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Forest depletion in Ghana: the empirical evidence and associated driver intensities [PDF]
Forestry Economics Review, 2020 Purpose – This study seeks to provide a robust piece of evidence of forest depletion in Ghana and its associated driver intensities to inform national policy decisions towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 15 and beyond. Design/methodology/
Anthony Amoah, Kofi Korle
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The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Regime in Developing Countries [PDF]
جستارهای اقتصادی, 2022 The main purpose of this study is to investigate the extent and manner of the impact of political economy factors on the de facto exchange rate regime in developing countries and to extract implications for the political economy of the Iranian exchange ...
Ehsan Mousavi +2 more
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Journal of Probability and Statistics, 2012 This paper presents a Bayesian analysis of bivariate ordered probit regression model with excess of zeros. Specifically, in the context of joint modeling of two ordered outcomes, we develop zero-inflated bivariate ordered probit model and carry out ...
Shiferaw Gurmu, Getachew A. Dagne
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Journal of Modern Transportation, 2017 During the past two decades, several methodologies are endorsed to assess the compatibility of roadways for bicycle use under homogeneous traffic conditions.
Sambit Kumar Beura +2 more
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Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2023 ObjectiveThere is limited evidence for mapping clinical tools to preference-based generic tools in the Chinese thyroid cancer patient population. The current study aims to map the FACT-H&N (Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Head and Neck Cancer)
Qing Yang +4 more
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Does a rise in BMI cause an increased risk of diabetes?: Evidence from India.
PLoS ONE, 2020 BackgroundOvernutrition increases the risk of diabetes. Evidence on the causal impact of overnutrition on diabetes is scarce for India. Considering a representative sample from India, this study examines the causal effect of a rise in the Body Mass Index
Shivani Gupta, Sangeeta Bansal
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Sovereign ratings: Determinants and policy implications for India
IIMB Management Review, 2018 This paper studies sovereign rating models of Moody's, Standard & Poor's (S&P) and Fitch to identify important determinants of sovereign ratings. Ordered logit and probit are employed to check for robustness of empirical results.
Sanjay Sehgal +3 more
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Canadian journal of civil engineering (Print), 2020 The study analyzed injury severity of teenage and older drivers using 2015–2016 crash data from New Mexico. The fitness of the random-parameter ordered probit models developed for each age group was tested using likelihood ratio, comparing them to a ...
S. D. Khales +2 more
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