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Agricultural Diversification at the Margin. Strategies and Determinants in Italian Mountain and Remote Areas

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Future directions for Public Health Education reforms in India

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2014
Health systems globally are experiencing a shortage of competent public health professionals. Public health education across developing countries is stretched by capacity generation and maintaining an adequate ‘standard’ and ‘quality’ of their graduate ...
Sanjay P Zodpey   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Democracy and Reforms [PDF]

open access: yes
Empirical evidence on the relationship between democracy and economic reforms is scarce, limited to few reforms and countries and for few years. This paper studies the impact of democracy on the adoption of economic reforms using a new dataset on reforms
Mishra, Prachi   +2 more
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Négocier les règles d’accès au marché d’eau urbain à Douala

open access: yesL'Espace Politique, 2018
In 1990s, the reforms of liberalization of urban water service led to the emergence of a private entrepreneurship, largely informal, in water distribution sector.
Virginie Nantchop
doaj   +1 more source

Four Tough Reforms to Revive the Manufacturing Sector in India

open access: yes, 2014
For the past four years, India's economy has seen a dispiriting collapse of growth. This issue brief identifies the four main reforms that new Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government must undertake to revive the manufacturing sector in ...
McAuley, Thomas, Green, Russell A.
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Import Wheat Tenders and the Effects of the Russian Invasion

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Risk and volatility for many commodities escalated sharply following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, creating numerous uncertainties for trading firms and importers. The purpose of this study is to analyze the bidding behavior in Egyptian wheat import tenders in the pre‐ and post‐invasion periods.
William W. Wilson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Public Choice Theory and Administrative Reforms in Government A Comparative Perspective [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات مدیریت بهبود و تحول, 1997
Public choice theory is based  on the idea that politicians, bureaucrats, and public administrators do not devote their lives for public good and other citizens' interests.
seyedmehdi alvani
doaj  

Paradigm shift from New Public Administration to New Public Management: theory and practice in Africa

open access: yesThe Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 2011
The African continent is facing a number of administrative crises. The recent decline of public administration on the continent has forced some African countries to re-assess their governance systems.
Shikha Vyas-Doorgapersad
doaj   +1 more source

Testing the Marketing Performance of German Wheat Farmers

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyses the marketing performance of wheat farmers in Germany. Wheat sales data from 465 individual farms over a 12‐year period are used to test against different market benchmarks. Market benchmarks are constructed by simulating passive trading agents using regional wheat prices.
Franziska Potts, Jens‐Peter Loy
wiley   +1 more source

Did Growth and Reforms Increase Citizens' Support for the Transition? [PDF]

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How did post-communist transformations affect people's perceptions of their economic and political systems? We model a pseudo-panel with 89 country-year clusters, based on 13 countries observed between 1991 and 2004, to identify the macro and ...
Golinelli, Roberto, Rovelli, Riccardo
core   +2 more sources

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