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Over the last two decades, China has sustained a rapid economic growth at about 8-10%, part of which is attributed to the positive total factor productivity (TFP) growth. However, this extraordinary…
| Peer Reviewed | ChinaThe European Union has been relatively cautious about using biotechnology in food production. A label regime combined with the right of individual member states to ban introduction of new genetically…
| Peer Reviewed | SwedenThis paper investigates and ranks a set of policy and technological interventions intended to reduce such health costs in the high population density areas of South Africa. The paper’s policy messages…
| Peer Reviewed | South AfricaUsing an experimental approach, we investigate the risk preferences of artisanal fishermen in Tanzania waters of Lake Victoria. The experiment concerns pairwise comparisons of hypothetical fishing…
| Peer Reviewed | Sweden, TanzaniaUsing a contingent valuation survey, we elicit Swedish households' willingness to pay (WTP) to avoid power outages. In the study respondents are asked to state their WTP for avoiding nine different…
| Peer Reviewed | SwedenThis study stakes on the debate on whether or not increased off-farm employment compromises the adoption and the intensity of adopting some labor intensive soil conserving technologies. The research…
| Peer Reviewed | TanzaniaThe choice of domestic fuel is a matter of great concern for households and policy makers in India. This paper investigates the demand for domestic fuels when households face four choices: Fuelwood…
| Peer Reviewed | Global HubLand degradation poses a serious problem for the livelihoods of rural producers. Furthermore, there is rarely enough private investment taking place to commensurate the scale of the problem. This…
| Peer Reviewed | EthiopiaNation-states rarely go to war over water, but it is equally rare that water conflicts in an international river basin are resolved through cooperation among the riparian countries that use the shared…
| Peer Reviewed |The paper analyzes the adoption of various environmental management systems (EMS) by industrial firms in Central and Eastern Europe approximately eight years after economic transitions began. Of…
| Peer Reviewed | Sweden