The problem of food security during the last few decades has acquired a global character. Population growth, reduction of farmland suitable for agriculture and ecological factors has led to a sharp increase in food demand. In such conditions, the role of countries which are able to increase the export of agricultural production in short-term periods is rising. Ukraine has great opportunities fo...

The study investigated the levels of awareness and use of agricultural insurance scheme in Kogi State of Nigeria. A total of 240 respondents from eight communities were selected through a multistage random sampling technique. Data collected through structured questionnaire were analyzed using descriptive statistic, percentages and sigma scoring model. The results revealed that farmers in the St...

this paper tries to comparatively study agricultural products insurance factors and the international agricultural products insurance systems in developed and developing countries. it analyses these supporting systems typology form the view points of variables such as covered risk factors, program insurer and the insured, insurance projects operational fundamentals, insurance system type (priva...

this paper argues that a risk averse of workers after-tax reservation wage the difference between her reservation wage and the tax needed to fund the unemployment insurance system when liquidity constraint binds exists and it is unique. the optimality of unemployment insurance based on the responsiveness of reservation wage to unemployment benefit shows the disincentive effect, i.e. higher unem...

This paper argues that a risk averse of workers after-tax reservation wage the difference between her reservation wage and the tax needed to fund the unemployment insurance system when liquidity constraint binds exists and it is unique. The optimality of unemployment insurance based on the responsiveness of reservation wage to unemployment benefit shows the disincentive effect, i.e. higher unem...

The Innovation Fund for Agricultural Transformation (IFAT) is a proposed in-country agricultural funding initiative to support the transformation of the agriculture sector in the developing countries in Africa, through the Integrated Agricultural Research for Development (IAR4D) concept. The IAR4D concept fosters the generation of innovations, sustainability of smallholder farmer’s livelihood, ...

Health Care Services in the Republic of Srpska are provided through the primary, secondary, and tertiary care levels. Primary medical services provision happens throughout the network of 53 primary health care facilities and 1 family medicine polyclinic (1). There are approximately 500 pharmacies (2). Secondary and tertiary health care services are provided in two university hospitals, nine reg...

A broad range of economic assumptions are used to project the future income and outgo of the Social Security system. The assumptions adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance (OASDI) Trust Fund were rather consistently on the optimistic side of the actual experience that emerged. This article examines the experience of several key economic ...

the study investigated the levels of awareness and use of agricultural insurance scheme in kogi state of nigeria. a total of 240 respondents from eight communities were selected through a multistage random sampling technique. data collected through structured questionnaire were analyzed using descriptive statistic, percentages and sigma scoring model. the results revealed that farmers in the st...