The objectives of this paper are to: 1) understand the characteristics of manufacturing firms associated with ISO 9000 quality control certification and to assess the support these relationships provide for different explanations of the phenomenon; and 2) use these empirical relationships to identify firms most likely to benefit from technical assistance regarding quality control: i.e., firms w...

esee 2015, chania, greececonference dates: july 4 – 7, 2017conference theme: transformative learning: new directions in agricultural extension and educationthe 23rd european seminar on extension (and) education (esee) will be held in the mediterraneanagronomic institute of chania, and hosted by the lab. of agricultural extension, rural systems &rural sociology, dept. of agricultural economics &...

Time geography approach provides quantifiable measures in the form of Time-space prisms which are used for analyzing individual activity spaces resulting from household activity-travel decisions. In the recent concerns to improve accessibility of rural households in developing countries, the need to develop a framework to study economics of household decision-making in the light of their timesp...

Decomposing the occupational structure of rural and urban labor markets allows assessing whether these structures became more alike or more dissimilar between 1970 and 1990. A shift-share method is used to compute ‘predicted’ and ‘specialized’ shares for 9 inclusive occupations. A SUR model is used to estimate the convergence process. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Agricu...

This paper presents an empirical study of population growth and environmental change using cross-sectional district-level data from South, Central and West India. Environmental change is measured using a satellite-based “greenness” index. Unlike prior work, the analysis treats population and environmental change as jointly determined, distinguishes between rural and urban populations, and ident...

This study uses quantitative and qualitative survey data on the use of public-private partnership in provision and production of public services by municipalities in predominantly rural New Hampshire (USA). Descriptive analysis suggests that town officials are less satisfied with the quality of privatized services, suggesting that privatization involves some tradeoff between costs and quality. ...

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between rural poverty and environmental change using district-level data from South, Central and West India. Unlike prior works, this study puts the hypothesis of bi-directional link between poverty and environment to systematic econometric test by accounting for the joint endogeneity of poverty and environmental change. Environmenta...

The Directorate of Economics of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development maintains two publication series for research on food security issues. Publications under the Flash series are short (3-4 pages), carefully focused reports designated to provide timely research results on issues of great interest. Publications under the Research Paper series are designed to provide longer, more in...