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Land Market Integration, Structural Change, and Smallholder Farming in Zambia
Larson, Andrew M. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014
The bifurcation of Zambia's agricultural land markets prevents smallholder farmers from participating in modern food marketing channels. High transaction costs in terms of time and financial resources make conversion of customary land into commercial land title prohibitively expensive for...
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A Decade of Natural Gas Development: The Makings of a Resource Curse?
Weber, Jeremy G. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
Many studies find that areas more dependent on natural resources grow more slowly – a relationship known as the resource curse. For counties in the south-central U.S., I find little evidence of an emerging curse from greater natural gas production during the 2000s. Increases in population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880902
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Fertilizer Subsidies and Voting Patterns: Political Economy Dimensions of Input Subsidy Programs
Mason, Nicole M.; Jayne, T.S.; Walle, Nicolas van de - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
Agricultural input subsidies often have implicit or explicit political economy objectives. Using panel data from Zambia, this article empirically tests whether election outcomes affect targeting of subsidized fertilizer and whether fertilizer subsidies win votes. Results suggest that the Zambian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010916073
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Sensitive Product Treatment in Agricultural Trade Negotiations
Durand-Morat, Alvaro; Wailes, Eric J.; Sharp, Misti - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011
The fact that trade, and especially agricultural trade, remains far from free is puzzling, since the superiority of free trade receives overwhelming support among economists (Gawande and Krishna, 2003; Rodrik, 1994). International trade scholars have devoted significant resources to forecasting the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020997
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Policy Responses to 2008 High Food Prices: Domestic Incentives and Global Implications
Woolverton, Andrea E.; Kiawu, James - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009
Global food commodity price inflation beginning in 2006 and continuing through mid-2008 became a priority concern for global consumers, producers and policy-makers alike. In response, many governments across the world implemented policies targeting high food commodity prices in their domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024941
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Firm Birth and Death in U.S. Manufacturing: A Regional Adjustment Model
Brown, Jason P.; Lambert, Dayton M.; Florax, Raymond J.G.M. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009
Attracting manufacturing investment is a frequently used rural development policy. Previous research in the location ….S. manufacturing sector is developed from location theory and subsequent literature. Specifically, we test the relative importance of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012663
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Manufacturing Transition in Local Economies: A Regional Adjustment Model
Brown, Jason P.; Lambert, Dayton M.; Florax, Raymond J.G.M. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
rate of establishment births and deaths in U.S. manufacturing, 2000–2004. A theoretical concept called “localized creative … destruction” is tested as a mechanism to explain the dynamics impacting the spatial distribution of manufacturing establishment … concerned with business retention and the impact of new manufacturing establishments on their existing base. …
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Lessons from the California GM Labeling Proposition on the State of Crop Biotechnology
Zilberman, David; Kaplan, Scott; Kim, Eunice; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880946
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Political Economy of Crop Insurance Risk Subsidies under Imperfect Information
Bulut, Harun; Collins, Keith J. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
We consider a political economy where government cares about risk-averse farmers’ loss of income and yet incurs political cost if it provides monetary support to farmers. Government evaluates three options: 1) ex-post disaster aid; 2) ex-ante insurance option with perfect information; 3)...
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Missing Markets and Consumer Cooperation
Hueth, Brent - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
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