Results 91 to 100 of about 999,102 (311)
The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor +3 more
wiley +1 more source
Political Connections and Investment in Rural Vietnam [PDF]
This paper uses household panel data from rural Vietnam to explore the effects of having a relative in a position of political or bureaucratic power on farmers. agricultural investment decisions.
Finn Tarp, Thomas Markussen
core
Cost Pass‐Through in Crisis: Evidence From the German Malt‐Beer Supply Chain
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract Global agri‐food supply chains are increasingly exposed to geopolitical shocks, climate volatility, and market consolidation, factors that disrupt traditional price relationships and reshape market power dynamics. Nowhere is this more visible than in the brewing sector, where agricultural raw materials meet complex industrial processing and ...
Nikolas Bublik, Lukáš Čechura
wiley +1 more source
Politicians at work. The private returns and social costs of political connections [PDF]
We quantify the private returns and social costs of political connections exploiting a unique longitudinal dataset that combines matched employer-employee data for a representative sample of Italian firms with administrative archives on the universe of ...
Federico Cingano, Paolo Pinotti
core
Inscriptions of Sumatra; II. Short Epigraphs in Old Javanese [PDF]
, 2012 This article documents the existence of inscriptions using Old Javanese language on the island of Sumatra, by editing three short epigraphs, the first of which has previously been published but never satisfactorily interpreted, while the remaining two ...
Griffiths, A. (Arlo)
core
KDLM: Lightweight Brain Tumor Segmentation via Knowledge Distillation
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.A lightweight student network is designed, which is based on multiscale and multilevel feature fusion and combined with the residual channel attention mechanism to achieve efficient feature extraction and fusion with very few parameters. A dual‐teacher collaborative knowledge distillation framework is proposed.
Baotian Li +4 more
wiley +1 more source
Cogent Business & Management, 2020 This study investigates the differences between the SOEs and non-SOEs financial performance and how the presidential election affects their performance.
Iman Harymawan +3 more
doaj +1 more source
Political Persistence, Connections and Economic Growth [PDF]
Using data on a panel of 56 democratic countries in the period 1975-2004, we find evidence of a negative association between political stability and economic growth which is stronger and empirically more robust in countries with high bureaucratic costs ...
Carlotta Berti Ceroni +2 more
core
Red Capitalists: Political Connections and the Growth and Survival of Start-up Companies in China [PDF]
This paper analyses the role of political connections in the post-entry performance of private start-up companies in China. It documents robust evidence that political affiliation enhances firms’ survival and growth prospects, even if politically neutral
Jun Du, Sourafel Girma
core
AI &Innovation, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The rapid advancement of large language model (LLM) technology is profoundly transforming the practice of social science research. Scholarly discussions on Artificial Intelligence (AI)'s role in social science research can be organised into three levels: AI as a research tool, AI as a methodological infrastructure and AI as a quasi‐cognitive ...
Jie Xiong
wiley +1 more source