With numerous challenges hindering smallholders’ adoption of externally developed technologies, it is often argued that farmer innovation can play an essential role in rural livelihoods. Yet a rigorous assessment of the impact of farmer innovation is lacking.
Uncertainty about the future is an important determinant of well-being, especially in developing countries where financial markets and other market failures result in ineffective insurance mechanisms.
This document elaborated by the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) and the German Development Institute (DIE) conducts an in-depth exploration of the statistics of the National Household Surveys (ENAHO) 2004-2013 and disaggregates essential information on the conditions of the populations that
This paper estimates the welfare impact of rural electrification in India using nationally representative household panel survey data for 2005 and 2012.
The Environmental Goods Agreement (EGA), initiated in 2014, is intended to reduce tariffs on a list of goods by the signatories, after which concessions will be extended to all WTO members based on the most-favoured-nation principle.