This chapter focuses on the effect of private food production standards on the welfare of farm workers in Kenya. The chapter is divided into several sections. The section, Conceptual Framework and Methodology, describes the application of the Sen?s functionings approach in the context of production standards in horticulture. The section Survey Design and Data describes the design of the survey and the process of data collection. An overview of the collected data is given in section Empirical Models and Descriptive results. The descriptive results are followed by the results of the econometric model and a discussion. The chapter concludes with suggestions for policy design regarding the implementation of private food production standards.
This paper examines what regional characteristics drove economic growth throughout the European Union during the past decade and at what pace convergence proceeded in different regions of the new member states in Central and Eastern Europe. For a precise view of regional economic differentials, the analysis focuses on city regions, using the Urban Audit database provided by the European Commission as a source. Thus far, there is a lack of studies on Europe-wide urban economic differentials and dynamics. After the EU expansion of 2004, economic growth accelerated considerably in the least-developed peripheral regions, but also in the wealthier capital cities of the new member states. The growth analysis, which Uwe Neumann is a researcher at the Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI), Essen, Germany. Rüdiger Budde is a researcher at the Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI), Essen, Germany. Christoph Ehlert is a researcher at the Rheinisch-Westfälisches
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