According to Awokuse and Xie (2015), agriculture is a food source that creates more jobs, contributes to production and economic development in rural areas, and helps the economy grow sustainably. Therefore, agricultural variables also have a significant influence on economic growth. Pasara and ...
1), mainly driven by the search for more affordable housing, better jobs, and for family reasons such as change in marital status29. Long distance moves, captured by inter-state flows, represent the remaining 17% of domestic flows, which comprises about 7.5 million moves per year. Here, we...
Artisanal and small-scale mining is an important livelihood activity in many biodiversity hotspots. There is substantial international concern about the negative impact of artisanal and small-scale mining on biodiversity, yet in most places this remains
Provinces like Pichincha, Guayas, El Oro and Galápagos show higher economic development and lower poverty levels, whereas Bolívar and Chimborazo remain among the poorest, with high child labour ratesFootnote 5 and significant portions of their populations engaged in agriculture or unskilled jobs (...
in Pakistan. However, a few studies described the role of government education spending in human capital, for instance, Jung and Thorbecke (2003), explained that Zambia and Tanzania can get maximum benefits from education expenditure only if they invest a sufficiently high level of investment in ...
industrialisation (Abreha et al.2021). Further, the SSA region experienced a 148% increase in jobs in the manufacturing sector between 1990 and 2018 (Abreha et al.2021). Third, despite the low institutional development in SSA, Oduola et al. (2022) strongly argued that an opportunity exists...
It’s not hard to make the connection between the economic climate and the nation’s mental wellbeing. When jobs are under threat, pay packets are being frozen, and workloads are increasing, employees’ mental health is always likely to be affected. Over the last ten years, we have all no...
After recoding the availability of work, the results showed that rural residents with jobs accounted for 89.7% of the total sample. The average social security was 1.636, and most rural residents had purchased 1–2 social insurance. The average number of houses owned by rural families was 1.110...
(e.g. jobs outside the fisheries or agricultural sectors, such as the service industry) could reduce sensitivity in lower socioeconomic status communities. However, decades of research on livelihood diversification has highlighted a multitude of reasons why alternative livelihood projects frequently fail...
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