Andersson, Camilla - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2010
In this paper, we model the economic incentives surrounding opium crop production at farm level in Afghanistan …. Specifically, we examine the impact of eradication policies when opium is used as a means of obtaining credit, and when the crops … available, an increased risk of having the opium poppy eradicated will lead to less land being allocated to opium poppy. Thus …