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6 articles found for JEL code search: O12 (Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development)

  • Growth, Poverty, and Food Policy in the Philippines: Lessons for the Post-COVID-19 Era

    Majah-Leah V. Ravago, Arsenio M. Balisacan, and Enrico G. Trinidad
    The Philippine economy’s growth has accelerated since 2010, outperforming its Asian peers in the current decade. However, poverty reduction is comparatively weak in response to growth, suggesting that growth has been less inclusive than expected. Poverty in the Philippines is still largely a...
    Volume 21 20th Anniversary Issue (October 2024)

  • The Microeconomics of Agricultural Development: Risk, Institutions, and Agricultural Policy

    James A. Roumasset
    Assertions of pervasive inefficiency in the behavior and organization of developing agriculture are found to be based on unsound methodologies. Models apparently based on expected utility theory are theoretically flawed and use highly restrictive assumptions that make them largely irrelevant for...
    Volume 21 20th Anniversary Issue (October 2024)

  • 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)

  • Information Acquisition and Conservation Farming Practices for Sustainable Agriculture in Rural Vietnam

    Thi Quynh Anh Le, Yasuharu Shimamura, and Hiroyuki Yamada
    Soil fertility conservation has become an increasing concern in Vietnamese agriculture owing to the excessive use of agrochemicals. The use of organic fertilizers is considered an environment-friendly practice for sustainable agriculture. Although environmental awareness has emerged and production...
    Volume 18 Issue No. 1 (June 2021)

  • Commercialization and Mission Drift in Microfinance: Implications for Rural India

    Kaustav K. Sarkar and Rukmini Thapa
    The emergence of microfinance has been justified as a measure to occupy the empty space that was created with the retreat of formal banking as part of structural and neoliberal reforms for rural India in post-1990s. Worldwide, although the microfinance institution (MFI) has been flouted to provide...
    Volume 17 Issue No. 1 (June 2020)

  • Assessment of Neighborhood and Spillover Effects on Technical Efficiency of Irrigated Rice Farmers

    Donald B. Villanueva, Zenaida M. Sumalde, Valerien O. Pede, Yolanda T. Garcia, and U-Primo E. Rodriguez
    Neighborhood and spillover effects on technical efficiency were investigated among 270 randomly drawn farming households from 18 irrigated villages in Guimba, Nueva Ecija, Philippines, using a two-step procedure. In the first stage, stochastic frontier production function was used to estimate...
    Volume 14 Issue No. 2 (December 2017)

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