The importance of promoting growth and eliminating poverty in the rural sector has been well documented in the literature of Philippine economic development. Yet the rural sector in the country seems to be often left behind during periods when the country would experience modest growth and is also often hardest hit during periods of crisis. Seventy percent of the poor still live in the rural ar...

The planning program serves for the economical calculation of the effects of development decisions in agricultural enterprises, put on a long-term basis. The program evaluates individual values of agricultural enterprises on the basis of fixed formulas. The use of default values offered by the Saxon State Institute for agriculture is also possible for comparative appreciations. The planning hor...

In an era of ‘permanent austerity’ (Pierson, 2001) and financial crisis, the issue of financing welfare state provisions is topical. Moreover, the future of welfare state funding in countries with ageing populations is no doubt raising increasing interest in scholarly as well as policy circles. Yet the financing side of welfare provision has traditionally been given little attention and remains...

The study examined the effect of women led self help group on micro-financing of farms in Isuikwuato Local Government Area of Abia State, Nigeria. Purposive and multistage random sampling technique was employed for collecting data from one hundred and twenty (120) women farmers in women led self help group by using structured interview schedule. The data were analyzed using descriptive statisti...

Can public campaign financing produce meaningful gains in competition within state legislative elections? A number of studies have confronted this question by employing a multitude of analytical techniques. This analysis adds to that body of work by taking a comparative approach that utilizes two distinct measures of competition in order to gauge the success of six different public financing pr...