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7 articles found for keyword search: Gender

  • Gender Gap in Mobile-Banking Use in Rural Northern Bangladesh

    Farhana Islam, Atsushi Chitose, and Motoi Kusadokoro
    Mobile banking (M-bank), a newly introduced technology, can improve women’s access to financial services. This study empirically estimates the effect of a husband’s and wife’s socioeconomic characteristics, relative differences in age and education, and household characteristics on...
    Volume 19 Issue No. 2 (December 2022)

  • The Role of Gender, Risk, and Time Preferences in Farmers' Rice Variety Selection in Eastern India

    Mamta Mehar, Takashi Yamano, and Architesh Panda
    Using data from 5,601 rice farmers in Eastern India, this study examined the role of gender, risk, and time preferences in farmers' rice variety selection in Eastern India. The determinants of the following were estimated: farmers' rice variety selection according to variety type (i.e....
    Volume 14 Issue No. 1 (June 2017)

  • Rural Labor Outmigration and Gender Dimension in an Assessment of Farm Technical Efficiency: A Case Study in Selected Rice Villages in the Philippines

    Joyce S. Luis, Thelma R. Paris, Maria Fay Rola-Rubzen, and Valerien O. Pede
    Several studies have shown that labor outmigration is one of the livelihood strategies of poor farming households. However, no studies have shown its effect on rice crop production including a gender dimension on technical efficiency in rice farming. This paper attempts to improve the understanding...
    Volume 12 Issue No. 1 (June 2015)

  • Determinants of Climate Change Adaptive Behavior in Coastal Communities in Southeast Asia

    Asa Jose U. Sajise, Paul Joseph B. Ramirez, Maripaz L. Perez, Jaimie Kim B. Arias, and Glaiza J. Zamora
    This study sought to understand the determinants of autonomous adaptation of households in coastal communities in three countries (Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam) as regards climate change. The study’s main innovation is its focus on households facing a confluence of related haz...
    Volume 14 Issue No. 2 (December 2017)

  • Does MGNREGS Promote Inclusive Growth? What do Evidence Indicate?

    Mahendran Arumugam and Indrakant Sulibhavi
    The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in India seeks to provide a specified number of days of employment at a specified wage rate to interested rural households, and ensures equal wages between male and female workers. MGNREGS will benefit wage seekers directly by...
    Volume 14 Issue No. 1 (June 2017)

  • Estimation of Technical Efficiency for Rice Farms in Central Thailand Using Stochastic Frontier Approach

    Kallika Taraka, Ismail Abd. Latif, Mad Nasir Shamsudin, and Shaufique bin Ahmad Sidique
    As one of Thailand's economic crops, rice plays an important role in generating national income and creating domestic employment for the country. Its production has been increasing because of the expansion of areas planted to rice and not due to increases in productivity. The national average...
    Volume 9 Issue No. 2 (December 2012)

  • Examining Malaysian Household Expenditure Patterns on Food-Away-From-Home

    Helen Lee Siew Heng and Andrew Tan Khee Guan
    The censored Tobit model is applied on data from the Malaysian Household Expenditure Survey (1998/99) to examine household expenditure patterns on food-away-from-home (FAFH). Results indicate that the Chinese population, the urban residents, or those with higher monthly household income have...
    Volume 4 Issue No. 1 (June 2007)

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