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Understanding immigrant entrepreneurship: a home-country entrepreneurial ecosystem perspective [PDF]

New England Journal of Entrepreneurship, 2021
Purpose – Given the importance of immigration and immigrant entrepreneurs in advanced economies, the authors take an entrepreneurial ecosystem perspective to study the home-country benefits possessed by immigrant entrepreneurs and how home-country ...
Carson Duan, Kamaljeet Sandhu, Bernice Kotey   +2 more
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Has mobile phone technology aided the growth of agricultural productivity in sub-Saharan Africa?

South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 2021
Background: A recent increase in the adoption of mobile phone technology generated a great deal of interest and optimism regarding its effect on economic development in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), particularly on the enhancement of agricultural development.
Omotomiwa Adenubi, Omphile Temoso, Isiaka Abdulaleem   +2 more
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Relationships between Farmer Psychological Profiles and Farm Business Performance amongst Smallholder Beef and Poultry Farmers in South Africa

Agriculture, 2023
Beef cattle and poultry are critically important livestock for improving household food security and alleviating poverty amongst smallholder farmers in South Africa.
Renato A. Villano, Isaac Koomson, Nkhanedzeni B. Nengovhela, Livhuwani Mudau, Heather M. Burrow, Navjot Bhullar   +5 more
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Embedding digital agriculture into sustainable Australian food systems: pathways and pitfalls to value creation

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2022
Digital agriculture is exciting attention because of an expectation that food systems will be disrupted by new digital technologies through improvements in precision, efficiency, volume, speed of process or identity of product.
Simon Cook, Elizabeth L. Jackson, Myles J. Fisher, Derek Baker, Dean Diepeveen   +4 more
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Embedding an institution-wide capacity building opportunity around transition pedagogy: First Year Teaching and Learning Network Coordinators

International Journal of the First Year in Higher Education, 2015
A First Year Teaching and Learning Network was established in a regional university with a strong focus on distance education for a very diverse student cohort.  The purpose of the Network, which consisted of a Coordinator in each of nine schools, was to
Jennifer Clark, Lisa Gurney, Sarah Lawrence, Rhonda Leece, John Malouff, Yvonne Masters, Jackie Reid, Isabel Tasker, Fredy-Roberto Valenzuela, Janelle Wilkes   +9 more
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The New World challenge: Performance trends in wine production in major wine-exporting countries in the 2000s and their implications for the Australian wine industry

Wine Economics and Policy, 2014
Anderson, K., Nelgen, S., 2011. Global Wine Markets, 1961 to 2009: A Statistical Compendium. University of Adelaide Press, Adelaide publication of an index of revealed comparative advantage suggests that the Australian wine industry had come under ...
Euan Fleming, Stuart Mounter, Bligh Grant, Garry Griffith, Renato Villano   +4 more
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Wineries and wine quality: The influence of location and archetype in the Hunter Valley region in Australia

Wine Economics and Policy, 2019
Geographical concentrations of wineries often occur within a region for obvious reasons of terroir. However, localised spatial concentrations of wineries may exist because of other factors.
Peter Lock, Stuart Mounter, Euan Fleming, Jonathan Moss   +3 more
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Modelling biocontrol of invasive insects using WaspSim: A MATLAB simulation model

SoftwareX, 2023
Globally, governments spend significant amounts of money attempting to prevent or mitigate the negative impacts of invasive species using different strategies, including classical biological control for species that are widespread in the landscape ...
Oscar J. Cacho, Susan M. Hester
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What are the dynamic links between agriculture and manufacturing growth and environmental degradation? Evidence from different panel income countries

Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, 2020
The study investigates the causal association between sectoral growth of agriculture and manufacturing in Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) framework for 115 countries over the period 1990–2016.
Mirza Md Moyen Uddin
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Payment Schemes in Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: The Case of 4Ps in the Davao Region, Philippines

Administrative Sciences, 2015
This paper evaluates current payment schemes employed by the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) in the Philippines using six assessment criteria: transaction cost, security/risks, speed and timeliness, acceptability, resilience and flexibility ...
Ma Cecilia Catubig, Renato Villano, Brian Dollery   +2 more
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