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Impact of human resource development training on crop damages by wild animals in developing countries: experimental evidence from rural Pakistan

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  • Takashi Kurosaki
  • Hidayat Ullah Khan

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Based on a 4-year panel dataset of households collected in rural Pakistan, we examine the impact of a randomised intervention on households’ capacity to reduce income losses due to attacks by wild boars. We find that the intervention to teach indigenous techniques of scaring and trapping and modern ones of drugs to induce infertility was highly effective in eliminating the crop-income loss immediately after the intervention, but effects disappeared later. Our finding suggests the difficulty in technology transfer through the training or the high implicit cost in implementing the treatment. Therefore, the intervention was not sustainable at the household level.

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  • Takashi Kurosaki & Hidayat Ullah Khan, 2016. "Impact of human resource development training on crop damages by wild animals in developing countries: experimental evidence from rural Pakistan," Journal of Development Effectiveness, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 8(3), pages 388-403, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jdevef:v:8:y:2016:i:3:p:388-403
    DOI: 10.1080/19439342.2016.1160420
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