Institutional Development, Technology Adoption and Redistribution: A Political Economy Perspective

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zivanemoyo Chinzara ◽  
Radhika Lahiri
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Technology Adoption ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
Development Technology

scholarly journals Adopsi Teknologi Budi Daya dan Strategi Pengembangan Perkebunan Karet Rakyat di Kecamatan Teweh Tengah Kabupaten Barito Utara

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-143
Author(s):  
Nurul Huda ◽  
Budi Suharjo ◽  
Ani Suryani
Keyword(s):  
Technology Adoption ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Rubber Plantation ◽  
Logit Analysis ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Adoption Rate ◽  
Cultivation Technology ◽  
Farmer Groups

Although Indonesia has the largest rubber plantation in the world, the productivity is still very low. About 85% of the plantation belongs to the majority of farmers whose adoption level of cultivation technology is still low. This study aimed to determine the internal and external characteristics that greatly affect the level of farmers' adoption of technology in rubber cultivation to come up with the formulation of development strategy in the management of rubber plantation in Teweh Tengah Sub-district, Barito Utara regency. Processing and data analysis was done by analysis of descriptive and inferential statistics using the percentage distribution tables, Chi-square statistical analysis, correspondence analysis and logit analysis. Descriptively, the technology adoption rate of rubber farmers was categorized as 54% low, 40% moderate and 6% high. A Chi-Square test showed a correlation between the level of adoption by gender, age, course/training, Information Seeking activities of cultivation technology, Extension Support, Farmer Group Support, and Government support. The analysis result of Logit Method of Stepwise showed that there were two characteristics of internal and external variables that influenced the adoption rate of rubber cultivation technology: Support of Farmer Groups and Activities of Seeking for Cultivation Technology Information. A strategy for the development of rubber plantation Management should be based on growth, strengthening and development of farmer groups. The support of farmer groups can foster the process of increasing the information and skills for farmers. Development strategy included establishment and institutional development. improvement and development of information for farmer groups.Key words: Logit Regression, Rubber Plantation, Technology Adoption, farmer group

The Political Economy of Carbon Capture and Storage Technology Adoption

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-148
Author(s):  
Elena V. McLean ◽  
Tatyana Plaksina
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Technology Adoption ◽  
Carbon Capture ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Carbon Capture And Storage ◽  
Potential Method ◽  
The Political ◽  
Storage Technology ◽  
And Storage

Carbon sequestration through capture and storage in subsurface porous geologic formations is one potential method for mitigating the problem of climate change due to emission of anthropogenic CO2. In fact, in a world highly dependent on energy derived from hydrocarbons and coal, carbon capture and storage may represent the most promising approach to maintaining industrial development in the present period, while implementing other solutions that will deliver sustainable reductions in CO2 emissions in the long run. Some countries have initiated pilot and large-scale projects to develop and improve carbon capture and storage technology, while others are slow to follow. What explains this variation? We develop a theory of the political economy of technology adoption to explore conditions under which countries are more likely to implement carbon capture and storage projects. We find that the likelihood of such projects depends on governments’ policy positions and industries’ research and development capacity. Data analysis of carbon capture and storage projects provides evidence in support of our theoretical expectations.

scholarly journals What Turns a Blessing into a Curse? The Political Economy of Natural Resource Wealth (Invited Lecture)

2007 ◽  
Vol 46 (4I) ◽  
pp. 351-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed Mansoob Murshed
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Growth Failure ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
Rent Seeking ◽  
Resource Rents ◽  
Resource Endowment ◽  
Resource Wealth ◽  
Natural Resource Wealth

I review the relationship between natural resource endowment type and economic growth in developing countries. Certain types of natural resources, such as oil and minerals, tend to exhibit concentrated production and revenue patterns, while revenue flows from other resources such as agriculture are more diffuse. Most developing countries that export products from the first group have been prone to growth failure in recent times. The most important channels are political economy mechanisms, where there are negative relationships between natural resource rents and institutional development. An explicit model of growth collapse with micro-foundations in rent-seeking contests that have increasing returns in rent-seeking outlays is presented.

scholarly journals Understanding Business Environments and Success Factors for Emerging Bioeconomy Enterprises through a Comprehensive Analytical Framework

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 9018
Author(s):  
Muluken Elias Adamseged ◽  
Philipp Grundmann
Keyword(s):  
Success Factors ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Training And Education ◽  
Business Environments ◽  
Development Technology ◽  
Critical Action ◽  
Funding Resource

The development toward the bioeconomy requires, among others, generating and institutionalizing knowledge that contributes to technical and nontechnical inventions and innovations. Efforts to support innovation are often linked with the development of business models that facilitate the development in bioeconomy. However, the interdependences between the business models and their business environments are not sufficiently well understood in a way where misalignments that can obstruct the development can be dealt with adequately. Given this lacuna, this research aims to contribute to the development of a comprehensive analytical framework for better understanding the conditions of business environment as well as empirically apply the framework in an empirical study on cases of bioeconomy enterprises in Europe. In this paper, a comprehensive business environment framework is developed and applied for analyzing over 80 cases, thereby allowing for critical action arenas and crucial success factors to be identified. The findings are derived from a systematic application of the framework to relevant action arenas for business development: institutional development, technology and knowledge, consumers’ agency, market structure, funding, resource and infrastructure, and training and education. The results show that businesses in the bioeconomy, unlike other businesses, have to deal with more and very specific constraining legislative issues, infant and non-adapted technology and knowledge, as well as unclear values and perceptions of consumers. Due to this, businesses have to develop new forms of cooperation with different stakeholders. Successful businesses are characterized by the fact that they develop specific strategies, steering structures, and processes with a particular focus on learning and innovation to overcome misalignments between the business environment and their business models. Focusing efforts on learning and innovation in institutional development, technology and knowledge, consumers’ agency, and funding are especially promising as these turned out to be particularly critical and in particular need of institutional alignment for reducing different kinds of transaction costs in the development of bioeconomy.

Human Rights, Law, and Political Economy

2019 ◽  
pp. 165-191
Author(s):  
Anna Chadwick
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Right ◽  
World Hunger ◽  
Adequate Food ◽  
Regulatory Law

The final chapter of the book explores the potential of international human rights law as a means of addressing the persistence of world hunger. The chapter begins by relating the institutional development of the human right to adequate food. The analysis highlights some of the main advances that have been made in protecting the right, and it considers the emegence of two particular approaches taken to realizing socio-economic rights on the domestic level. The chapter then considers some of the limitations of human rights law as a tool to remedy complex socio-economic problems. The challenges of financialization and world hunger serve as referents for this analysis. Next, the author discusses the rise of the ‘food sovereignty’ movement and considers whether this approach overcomes some of the limitations of rights-based solutions to hunger. The chapter concludes with a two-fold argument concerning the limitations of existing international responses to hunger, which is that they simultaneously underweight the embeddedness of regulatory law in political economy, and, relatedly, that they pay insufficient attention to the operations of constitutive legal regimes that function to obstruct efforts to realize a right to adequate food.

The political economy of technology adoption: The case of Saharan salt mining

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 328-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Kuan ◽  
Seraphima Rombe-Shulman ◽  
Ekundayo Shittu
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Technology Adoption ◽  
The Political ◽  
Salt Mining
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