Introducing a price on greenhouse gas emissions would not only contribute to reducing the
risk of dangerous anthropogenic climate change, but would also generate substantial public …

During recent decades, artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) in Africa has increased
tremendously. An unknown but significant part is constituted by activities that are not based …

Institutional reforms are structural changes in the rules and norms of authority, with effects
that are long-term and unpredictable on government, politics, and society. But leaders may …

Backed by studies finding only limited propensity for free-riding when communities have an
interest in self-provision, the last few decades have seen a surge of interest in community …

The agriculture system is under pressure to increase production every year as global
population expands and more people move from a diet mostly made up of grains, to one …

To reduce poverty, policy makers in developing and emerging markets have tried to connect
producers at the bottom of the pyramid (BoP) to high-income markets. With supermarkets …

What makes people agree to the extension of political rights to those they clearly dislike?
This book moves beyond the extensive research on this question in western contexts to …

Purpose This study explores the integration of smallholder farmers into the export market in
Vietnam, an emerging economy. By introducing a prospective framework, we seek to …

Financial inclusion has been one of the key agendas for poverty reduction in development
practices since the mid-2000s. However, informal finance has clearly not been completely …

Economists have touted partnerships between smallholders and agribusiness firms that
cultivate high-valued export crops as a means of raising smallholder incomes and achieving …