this study was initiated to characterize urban and peri-urban sheep production systems and their economic importance in and around the towns of debre berhan and dessie, ethiopia. the study was undertaken using group discussions, structured questionnaire and personal observations. in both locations the majority of sheep producers were male household heads and predominantly traders in urban and f...

In recent literature the famous Kuznets relationship between inequality and income has been reformulated in terms of levels of inequality and subsequent rates of growth. In this paper we criticize the World Bank data set on which these studies have been based, and present contrasting evidence on pay differentials derived from the 2000 release of the UNIDO Industrial Statistics, a rich source of...

The study analyzed adoption of ICTs as source of information on agricultural innovations in Nigeria. Data were collected through a structured questionnaire administered to one hundred and twenty (120) Agricultural Development Programme (ADP) farmers sampled in Benue State. Results show that Radio (46.7%), Newspapers (45.8%), contact farmers (42.5%), and extension agents (41.7%) ranked first, se...

The paper examines Puerto Rican trends in income distribution during the 1970s and 1980s, then attempts to ascertain the source of the changes in income inequality through a decomposition of the Gini coefficient by factor income source. The study finds that poverty and inequality declined unambiguously during the twenty-year period. The source of the fall in income concentration was found to ha...

Based on data from the 2004 National Physician Survey, physicians whose primary payment method was fee-for-service saw more patients per week than physicians remunerated by other methods, including salary or blended payments. This result did not change when examined according to specialty or specialty grouping (Table 1), physician age (Table 2) Family physicians versus specialists, type of prac...

This paper studies optimum income taxation in a small open economy where households differ with respect to their endowments with wealth. The government raises taxes on income from labor and wealth and a source tax on capital used in domestic production. To avoid taxes, households may, at some cost, shift capital to labor income and vice versa. The government can only observe income after shifti...

OBJECTIVES The source of research may influence one's interpretation of it in either negative or positive ways, however, there are no robust experiments to determine how source impacts on one's judgment of the research article. We determine the impact of source on respondents' assessment of the quality and relevance of selected research abstracts. DESIGN Web-based survey design using four hea...