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explaining the economic theory that underpins NRA, contrasting welfare and sustainability as policy goals, and presenting various …
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In this paper, we use a simulation model to measure the potential market and welfare effects of recently introduced … commanding a premium. In the long run, GM technology appears to enhance aggregate welfare. However, when production cost savings … are trivial and consumers become highly concerned about GM food products, aggregate welfare may decline. The policy …
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In this paper we analyse the effects of microfinance programs upon household welfare in Vietnam. Our analytical … welfare effects of microfinance are proxied using measures of household income and consumption. The empirical results indicate … that participation in microfinance has a positive effect upon household welfare, with the size of the effect increasing at …
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Australian agriculture has suffered from a long-term decline in its terms of trade and a persistent cost-price squeeze. The effects on farm viability have led to declining and aging rural populations, rising rural unemployment, and substantial agricultural restructuring. To cushion these effects...
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We develop a theoretical welfare framework, which explicitly recognizes that research protected by intellectual …
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, raising the prospect of opportunity costs being imposed on irrigators. An important consideration in the development of these … modelling framework, based on stochastic dynamic programming linked to hydrological and biophysical models, to assess the farm …
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than previously if progress is to be made in the current round of multilateral trade negotiations. Modelling the impacts of … disaggregation, and information on bound and applied tariffs and the distribution of quota rents. Modelling with ATPSM suggests that …
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methodology and modelling framework adopted to analyze the economic impacts of environmental flow policies on the Macquarie …
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This paper reports on an analysis of irrigator water demand and profit changes across varying annual water availability, crop water requirements, and river salinity conditions for irrigation along the South Australian portion of the Lower Murray. The paper also investigates the validity of the...
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