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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"rural household"”.
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Trihalomethane formation in rural household water filtration systems in Haiti
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2001.
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An Investigation of Current Rural Household Furniture in East Hebei (Jidong) Province, China
… application of lifestyle theory to the study of rural household furniture in Jidong Province, China. Departing from conventional mixed-method and purely ethnographic approaches, this research integrates qualitative methods, including open-ended interviews, participatory observations, and …
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Impact of protected forests on rural household fuel tree planting and deforestation: Chiro District, Ethiopia
… impact of forest protection intervention on rural households’ private fuel tree planting in Chiro district of eastern Ethiopia. The study results revealed a robust and significant positive impact of the intervention on farmers’ decisions to produce private household energy by growing fuel …
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The Contribution of Subsistence Farming to Rural Household Food Systems: A Case Study of Mamokgadi Village
… is regarded as a primary strategy adopted by the rural households for increasing their access to food for their families. Food system options for rural households are mainly through own production and purchase from markets. In some cases people require more than what they produce hence they access …
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Determinants of financial managers' perception of rural household economic well-being: An analysis of a composite measure
… and social-psychological variables on household financial manager's index of perceived economic well-being.
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The impacts of rural-to-urban labor migration on the rural environment in Chongqing municipality, southwest China: Mediating roles of rural household livelihoods and community development
… particularly circular labor migration in the rural communities from which migrants originate. The increasing rural-to-urban labor migration in China since the early 1980’s has formed the largest population flow in world history. The primary objective of this doctoral dissertation research …
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Willingness to pay for insecticide-treated mosquito nets in rural South-East Nigeria : an integration of socio-economic and socio-psychological models
… is considered to be beyond the reach of many households. Therefore, it is essential to ascertain how much the average rural household is willing to pay for a family-size ITN.
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Essays on Rural-Urban Migration in China
… world's largest peacetime out-migration of its rural labor force to urban areas. The temporary nature of the labor migration complicates the control on this mobile population, and its multi-faceted influence on the whole economy makes the migration policy controversial. Based on cross-sectional …
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The Settlement Patterns and Social Power of Cahokia's Hinterland Households
… here in a settlement study of building, household, and village organization. During late prehistory (A.D. 950-1400) trends of change at small-scale settlements paralleled regional developments as rural households played new roles in the increasingly complex regional systems. The …
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Natural resource degradation and household time allocation among rural activities : empirical evidence from Uganda
… degradation on production and well-being of rural households in Uganda. In the face of growing concerns about the environment, policy makers in Uganda are finding themselves increasingly pressured to choose between environmental degradation in the long run and the ever-growing needs of the …
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Three essays on forestry economics and management
… from institutional weaknesses that distorts household decision making. The third essay therefore investigates impacts of village democracy on rural household welfare in China through changes in production efficiency in forestry and agriculture sectors using data collected from a household …
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Analyzing the intersection of climate vulnerability and household food insecurity in northern ghana: a sustainable livelihoods approach
… agriculture and food systems, especially in the rural settings of developing countries. In Africa, rural households are adversely impacted by climate change. This is because, besides institutional challenges regarding effective implementation of adaptation policies, rural households depend on …
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Individual differences in rural children's video word learning
… previous experience with videos, location (i.e. rural vs. non-rural), household income, maternal education, and receptive language skills. Preschool-aged children between the ages of 3 and 5 years and their parent or guardian were recruited from two vastly different populations, one rural and one …
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Rural income, welfare and migration : a study of three Ciskeian villages
The on-going significance of the rural areas in policy formation in South Africa has its roots in the country's spatially skewed population distribution and the persistence of 'oscillating' or 'circular' migration. Thus, rural income (its level, sources and distribution) and rural welfare remain …
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The frontier of the middle class: how farmers and fishers pursue better lives in the coastal landscapes of eastern Indonesia
… The people who live in these remote and rural places are often comparatively poorer than Indonesians living in urban and regional areas, with limited access to infrastructure, government services and markets. They, like most Indonesians, have participated in the massive economic …
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The frontier of the middle class: how farmers and fishers pursue better lives in the coastal landscapes of eastern Indonesia
… The people who live in these remote and rural places are often comparatively poorer than Indonesians living in urban and regional areas, with limited access to infrastructure, government services and markets. They, like most Indonesians, have participated in the massive economic …
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Not yet Soko Huru : the local appropriation of 'free market' discourse in the coffee industry of rural Kenya, Meru District (1998)
… adjustment programmes are transforming rural social relations in Meru District. Discussions on the relevancy of age, sex, and 'class' as social categories and as analytic constructs are placed in relation to the social changes witnessed in rural Kenya in the late 1990s. The conclusion …
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A Multi-tiered Framework for Renewable Energy Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa
… SSA countries have given more than 50% of their rural household access to electricity, even though 54.1% of SSA population still lives in rural areas. SSA countries believe that the only viable way to bridge this gap is through the use of renewable energy, or RE. However, SSA faces several main …
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Essays on the effects of rural-urban migration on migrants' behaviour in china : marriage, fertility, and cigarette smoking
The thesis examines the effects of rural-urban migration on migrants' marriage, fertility and smoking behaviour. This research attempts to fill these gaps. The data used are from the Chinese Rural Household sample of Rural-Urban Migration in China and Indonesia (RUMiCI) project. Chapter 2 analyses …
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Essays on the effects of rural-urban migration on migrants' behaviour in china : marriage, fertility, and cigarette smoking
The thesis examines the effects of rural-urban migration on migrants' marriage, fertility and smoking behaviour. This research attempts to fill these gaps. The data used are from the Chinese Rural Household sample of Rural-Urban Migration in China and Indonesia (RUMiCI) project. Chapter 2 analyses …
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