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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor +3 more
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Least-MSE calibration procedures for corrections of measurement and misclassification errors in generalized linear models [PDF]
Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST), 2012 The analyses of clinical and epidemiologic studies are often based on some kind of regression analysis, mainly linearregression and logistic models. These analyses are often affected by the fact that one or more of the predictors are measuredwith error ...
Parnchit Wattanasaruch +2 more
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A microeconometric analysis of factors affecting global value chain participation in Zimbabwe
Cogent Economics & Finance, 2019 Using firm-level data, this study explores the microeconomic factors affecting global value chain (GVC) participation in Zimbabwe. GVCs are important as a result of the fragmentation of global production across countries.
Stein Masunda, Norman Mupaso
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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
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Revista de Economía y Estadística, 2012 Una reversión de la cuenta corriente es, en general, un cambio brusco, sustancial y sostenido del déficit, pero existen diversas propiedades estadísticas para su identificación empírica.
Sergio Barone +2 more
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The Impact of Education Level on Home Ownership: Intertemporal Comparison [PDF]
Faslnāmah-i Pizhūhish/Nāmah-i Iqtisādī, 2016 With respect to the fact that housing satisfies a social need, in addition to the impact of economic factors, the social factors are alsoimportant in housing market.
Abd-ol-Rasul Ghasemi, Elham Shadabfar
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines whether information about production methods and social norms can increase consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) a price premium for food produced using climate‐friendly farming methods. A randomized survey experiment was conducted with 1568 respondents across Denmark, Lithuania, and Spain, who were assigned to one of four ...
Kassa Tarekegn Erekalo +5 more
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PREFERENSI INDIVIDU TERHADAP PENGOBATAN TRADISIONAL DI INDONESIA
Jurnal Ekonomi & Studi Pembangunan, 2015 :This study aims to determine the preferences of individuals to choose traditional medicine in Indonesia. The data used in this study obtained from the Indonesian Family Live Survey (IFLS) and it’s a longitudinal survey with a panel data study.
Herika Jennifer, Endah Saptutyningsih
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A comparison of multilevel ordinal regression models in the analysis of police force ratings
Croatian Review of Economic, Business and Social StatisticsIn the literature several methods have been developed to model ordinal data while considering their natural ordering. However, this study sought to compare two possible link functions for the multilevel ordinal regression using males’ ratings of the ...
Douglas Andabati Candia +3 more
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Factors explaining household payment for potable water in South Africa
Cogent Social Sciences, 2018 The critical role of clean water for sustaining life is enshrine in the Sustainable Development Goals 2030. However, water scarcity currently affects more than 40% of people globally and by 2030, demand for water is expected to grow by 50%.
B. E. Akinyemi +2 more
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