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Agricultural Productivity And Poverty Reduction In Nepal, Satis Devkota, Mukti Upadhyay
Agricultural Productivity And Poverty Reduction In Nepal, Satis Devkota, Mukti Upadhyay
Economics & Management Publications
This paper provides for the first time a clear quantitative link between agricultural productivity and poverty among rural households in Nepal. Using data from a nationwide Nepal Living Standard Survey 2004, we first estimate household-specific productivity per worker under both Cobb–Douglas and translog production functions. Second, the paper identifies the determinants of productivity. Third, we explore a theoretical link between productivity and poverty using Sen's poverty index and find empirically that productivity growth substantially helps poverty reduction. Finally, the integrated effects of changes in productivity determinants are found to be stronger than the outcomes of sectoral policies taken in isolation.
Goal Commitments And The Content Of Thoughts And Dreams: Basic Principles, Eric Klinger
Goal Commitments And The Content Of Thoughts And Dreams: Basic Principles, Eric Klinger
Psychology Publications
A few empirically supported principles can account for much of the thematic content of waking thought, including rumination, and dreams. (1) An individual’s commitments to particular goals sensitize the individual to respond to cues associated with those goals. The cues may be external or internal in the person’s own mental activity. The responses may take the form of noticing the cues, storing them in memory, having thoughts or dream segments related to them, and/or taking action. Noticing may be conscious or not. Goals may be any desired endpoint of a behavioral sequence, including finding out more about something, i.e., exploring …
An Efficient Contracting Approach To Rural Electric Cooperatives And The Development Of Upper Midwest (U.S.) Wind Resources, Bart D. Finzel, Arne Kildegaard
An Efficient Contracting Approach To Rural Electric Cooperatives And The Development Of Upper Midwest (U.S.) Wind Resources, Bart D. Finzel, Arne Kildegaard
Economics & Management Publications
Many factors support the likelihood of major wind power deployment in the Upper Midwest of the U.S. over the next two decades. This paper specifically considers the dilemma faced by the existing rural electric co-ops (RECs), to whom wind development poses simultaneously a threat and an opportunity. We argue that the threat can be ameliorated through more appropriate tariff strategies, and that there is an efficient-contracting rationale for RECs to take the lead in future development of the wind resource.
History Of The Latino Experience In The Morris Area, Stacey L. Parker Aronson, Windy González Roberts, Cristina Montanez, Jordan Wente
History Of The Latino Experience In The Morris Area, Stacey L. Parker Aronson, Windy González Roberts, Cristina Montanez, Jordan Wente
Spanish Publications
The purpose of this study is to document the history of the Latino experience in the Morris area in the last ten years. We also wish to identify best practices in community building and intercultural awareness.