This study assesses the reported farm income crisis in Canada and uses farm financial data to illustrate the importance and impact that management skills and practices have on farm income and net worth. For grain and oilseed farms, large farms produce higher revenues per hectare and achieve economies of scale on operating expenses, interest and depreciation, making them significantly more profi...

Abstract Non-farm income sources are important for livelihood sustenance, especially in the mountainous regions of developing countries. To implement effective policies to improve economic development, policymakers need insights at grassroots level. Yet, there is a lack empirical evidence context Pakistan. This study examines current situation and factors influencing decision by farmers engage ...

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Recent research on the impact of institutions su¤ers from historical, theoretical, and methodological problems. The historical issue is whether the initially poorer countries became wealthier, as Acemoglou, Johnson, and Robinson (2002) would have us believe. The theoretical question is whether the institutions that should matter are those that protect property rights or those that coordindate i...

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business related decisions become more perplexing as societies advance. environmental ambiguities which stem from new business models intensify the above mentioned complexity so far as many of the affecting variables and their interrelationships are non linear and complicated. in this circumstances data analysis and knowledge extraction is not practical via traditional methods. this research co...