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Assessing the Role of Trade and Reserve Cooperation in the Food Price Dynamics: Indonesia in the Regional and Global Economic Architecture
(2016-04-25)
The dissertation discusses the potential roles of trade and food reserve cooperation among countries in pursuing more stable food prices, with a special focus on Indonesia. The study starts by analyzing food price movements ...
Managing risk under climate change in Kenya: Multiple shocks, poverty, gender, and potential for group-based approaches
(2017-09-14)
Climate change and related shocks are major challenges facing agricultural performance, poverty reduction efforts, and economic growth in developing economies. Managing risks is vital because climate change and shocks lead ...
Efficient Water Allocation and Water Conservation Policy Modeling in the Aral Sea Basin
(2014-06-03)
Increasing water demand in the Aral Sea basin (ASB) challenges policy makers to implement in-time and effective water management measures to mitigate both the on-going and upcoming water crisis in the region. This study ...
Intergenerational Mobility and the Children of Migrants in Indonesia
(2022-02-23)
Although there has been substantial increase in human development in Indonesia, individual inequality has not reduced significantly.
This dissertation focuses on intergenerational mobility and its interplay with ...
This dissertation focuses on intergenerational mobility and its interplay with ...
Quantitative modelling of the Rural Development Programs of the Common Agricultural Policy - EU-wide and region-specific effects
(2021-03-18)
Rural Developments Programmes (RDPs) of EUs Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) are implemented to promote agricultural competitiveness, sustainable management of natural resources and climate protection, and a balanced ...
Effects of community-based health insurance on child health outcomes and utilisation of preventive health services: Evidence from rural south-western Uganda
(2018-10-23)
With the renewed focus on health for all through universal health coverage, community-based health insurance has been proposed both as a building block for health systems financing and also providing financial protection ...
Long-term effects of childhood work on human capital formation, migration decisions, and earnings in rural Ethiopia
(2018-10-16)
In Ethiopia, a quarter of children are child laborers, of which one in every three works full-time. Currently, more children than ever before also combine schooling with work. In addition, although net primary school ...
Investment and land-use decision under consideration of uncertainty
(2018-09-17)
Investment and land use decisions pre-determine the distribution of other farm resources and thus constitute core farm activities. Investments at the farm level often include sunk costs, risks, returns-to-scale, investment ...
Decentralized energy in India and its synergies with Water-Energy-Food security (WEF) nexus
(2018-11-15)
The majority of rural Indian households remain dependent on traditional, inefficient and harmful household energy technologies. Rural households make their energy decisions with respect to the Water-Energy-Food security ...
Conceptualising and estimating rationalised agricultural optimisation models
(2018-07-19)
Computational modelling for quantitative agricultural policy assessment in the EU employs more farm level oriented approaches in recent years. This follows policy instruments that increasingly target the farm level and ...