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  • The SWS Surveys of Philippine Hunger, 1998–2024

    Mahar K. Mangahas and Christine Belle Torres
    In September 2024, the Social Weather Stations (SWS) reported that 22.9 percent of Filipino households experienced involuntary hunger—being hungry and not having anything to eat—at least once in the past three months. This paper focuses on the surveys of Philippine hunger conducted by...
    Volume 21 Issue No. 2 (December 2024)

  • Seasonal Migration and Moving Out of Poverty in Rural India: Insights from Statistical Analysis

    Guvvala Venkata Anupama, Uttam Kumar Deb, Ma. Cynthia S. Bantilan, and Haragopal Vajjha
    Rural households in many countries have used temporary or seasonal migration as a strategy to cope with natural shocks such as drought, means of employment and income generation during lean season, and to move out of poverty. This paper studies the linkages between migration, employment in economic...
    Volume 13 Issue No. 2 (December 2016)

  • Expert Elicitation for Assessing Agricultural Technology Adoption: The Case of Improved Rice Varieties in South Asian Countries

    Takuji W. Tsusaka, Ma. Lourdes Velasco, Takashi Yamano, and Sushil Pandey
    Cultivar-specific adoption information is imperative for agricultural research organizations to make strategic research plans for crop-genetic development. However, such data are often unavailable in developing countries or obsolete and unreliable even when they exist. A budget-friendly and reliable...
    Volume 12 Issue No. 1 (June 2015)

  • Transaction Costs of Exchange in Agriculture: A Survey

    Agham C. Cuevas
    The concept of transaction cost has been around for more than 75 years. It has been used to explain every economic phenomenon that does not fit with standard neoclassical predictions. It has been applied to so many fields, its definition varying with every application. This paper surveys the...
    Volume 11 Issue No. 1 (June 2014)

  • Agriculture, Markets, and Poverty: A Comparative Analysis of Lao PDR and Cambodia

    Raghav Gaiha, Md Shafiul Azam, Samuel Annim, and Katsushi S. Imai
    Lao PDR and Cambodia have been transitioning to a market-oriented policy regime. Both are agrarian economies with agriculture contributing about one-third of the gross domestic product (GDP). This study assessed their prospects of achieving the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG 1, extreme...
    Volume 9 Issue No. 1 (June 2012)

  • Progress of Mongolian Microfinance: A Case Study of Khan Bank and XacBank

    Orosoo Dulamragchaa and Yoichi Izumida
    This paper examines the activities of Mongolian financial intermediation and the factors influencing the progress of Mongolian microfinance. These were evaluated using data from household surveys in selected areas, financial statements of Khan Bank and XacBank, and information obtained from...
    Volume 8 Issue No. 2 (December 2011)

  • Integrated Agriculture-Aquaculture Systems in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam: An Analysis of Recent Trends

    Le Thanh Phong, Henk M.J. Udo, Martinus E.F. van Mensvoort, Roel H. Bosma, Le Quang Tri, Dang Kieu Nhan, and Akke J. van der Zijpp
    In order to explain the trends in the development and farm attributes of Integrated Agriculture-Aquaculture (IAA) systems in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, a participatory community appraisal and two surveys are carried out in three districts with contrasting fish culture input systems. The first...
    Volume 4 Issue No. 2 (December 2007)

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