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ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers are reverting to traditional production methods due to the high opportunity costs and unintended consequences of new technologies. This study focuses on row planting technology, which is labor‐intensive and slow without mechanized operations.
Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah +4 more
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Increase of Residential Electricity Consumption in Urban and Rural China by Province [PDF]
We have developed a projection model to investigate the inter-regional and intra-regional urban-rural characteristics of the current residential electricity demand in China.
Honda, Manabu +3 more
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Proposed EITC Expansion Would Increase Eligibility and Dollars for Rural and Urban “Childless” Workers [PDF]
This brief uses data from the 2013 Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey to examine how President Obama’s proposed expanded eligibility and higher credit values might affect tax filers in both rural and urban America ...
Carson, Jessica A. +1 more
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ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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Prevalence Of Hypertension and It’s Correlates in Elderly Population of Coastal Karnataka
Background: Hypertension is becoming an important public health problem worldwide. It exhibits iceberg phenomena were unknown morbidity exceeds the known morbidity. The prevalence of hypertension is rapidly increasing in developing countries and is said
Shahul Hameed +5 more
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ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang +3 more
wiley +1 more source
The effects of New Cooperative Medicine Scheme coverage on health outcomes and health care in rural China [PDF]
health insurance, rural population, China, Health Economics and Policy,
Chu, Xueling +2 more
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Rural America Growing Again Due to Migration Gains [PDF]
For the first six years of this decade, rural America experienced overall population loss for the first time in history. New Census Bureau estimates suggest that last year overall growth accelerated in nonmetropolitan America where 46.1 million people ...
Johnson, Kenneth M.
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