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1998

Hatton MacDonald, Darla, Adamowicz, Wiktor, Luckert, Martin K.

Wood is the primary source of household energy for many African countries. Fuelwood is used for cooking meals, heating homes (as the season requires), making charcoal, etc. Much of the existing literature concerning fuelwood is broad in scope and does not provide insights into the microeconomic...

1995

Boxall, Peter C., Yen, Steven T., Adamowicz, Wiktor

Funding for the protection of the environment has traditionally come from general tax revenues. Fish and wildlife habitat enhancement and endangered species protection are prominent examples of this phenomenon. In the past few years, however, several aspects of this situation have changed. First,...

1997

Goebel, Allison

This paper is based on field world undertaken in Sengezi Resettlement Area (Hwedza District) during 1995-7. The research was qualitative in nature, beginning with Participatory Rural Appraisal workshops (PRA), which led to the development of five different formal interview schedules for villagers...

1993

Mataya, Charles S., Veeman, Michele M.

The effects of successive currency devaluations, since the 1980s, on Malawi's trade balance are analysed. The major hypothesis tested is that currency devaluation leads to an improvement in trade balance through changes in the real exchange rate. This hypothesis is not supported by the data for...

2002

Ng, Desmond

The concept of knowledge and its related dimensions of information and learning have traditionally received considerable research attention by scholars or organization and strategic management theorists. The increasing role of knowledge as a defining characteristic of the modern knowledge economy...

1996

Mumey, Glen, Unterschultz, Jim

Secondary asset market data for combines and tractors used to estimate and separate out historical economic depreciation, embodied technological change and time value change. Combines and tractors generally exhibit constant geometric economic depreciation on a year to year basis. Depreciation...

2012

Jeffrey, Scott, Yang, Jun, Unterschultz, Jim, Koeckhoven, Steve

Vegetative buffers, if established around riparian areas, represent a type of beneficial management practice (BMP) that provide ecological goods and services in the form of improved water quality, improve wildlife/waterfowl habitat, etc. Establishing these buffers result in reduced area for...

1996

Unterschultz, Jim, Quagrainie, Kwamena K.

Financial principles of project investment analysis with the cost and benefit flows over time. Invariably, the correct future cash flows and exact risks are unknown. The agricultural academic literature devotes substantial energy to discussing the estimation of the cash flows but it is relatively...

2004

Hu, Wuyang

It is a common practice to rescale data to assist the model estimation process. This paper describes a case where care is called upon when interpreting the results after rescaling. The case is shown as associated with the lognormally distributed coefficient in a mixed logit model. Implications of...

1994

Williams, Michael, Adamowicz, Wiktor, Swait, Joffre, Boxall, Peter C., Louviere, Jordan J.

Contingent valuation (CV) has been employed by economists for approximately 30 years to value changes in natural resources and environments. Estimating the value of resource improvements or damages is analogous to the problem in marketing research of estimating the demand for new products or...