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Input subsidies and demand for improved maize: Relative prices and household heterogeneity matter!
Holden, Stein - School of Economics and Business, Norges miljø- og … - 2013
This study uses simple non-separable farm household models calibrated to household, market, farming and policy context conditions in Central and Southern Malawi. The models are used to simulate how household characteristics, design and access to input subsidies affect the demand for improved...
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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints
Karlan, Dean S.; Osei, Robert; Osei-Akoto, Isaac; Udry, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
The investment decisions of small-scale farmers in developing countries are conditioned by their financial environment. Binding credit market constraints and incomplete insurance can reduce investment in activities with high expected profits. We conducted several experiments in northern Ghana in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083318
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Self-Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali
Beaman, Lori; Karlan, Dean S.; Thuysbaert, Bram; Udry, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We partnered with a micro-lender in Mali to randomize credit offers at the village level. Then, in no-loan control villages, we gave cash grants to randomly selected households. These grants led to higher agricultural investments and profits, thus showing that liquidity constraints bind with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083397
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GM Cotton Adoption, Recent and Prospective: A Global CGE Analysis of Economic Impacts
Anderson, Kym; Jackson, Lee Ann; Valenzuela, Ernesto - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of initial adoption of genetically modified (GM) cotton and of its potential impacts beyond the few countries where it is currently common. Use is made of the latest version of the GTAP database and model. Our results suggest that by following...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666568
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WTO's Doha Cotton Initiative: A Tale of Two Issues
Anderson, Kym; Valenzuela, Ernesto - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Four West African nations have demanded the WTO’s Doha Development Agenda include a Cotton Initiative that involves two issues: cutting cotton subsidies and tariffs, and assisting farm productivity growth in Africa. This paper provides estimates of the potential economic impacts of (a)...
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Eliciting Consumer WTP for Food Characteristics in a Developing Context: Comparison of four methods in a field experiment
Alphonce, Roselyne; Alfnes, Frode - School of Economics and Business, Norges miljø- og … - 2015
This paper aims at answering two objectives;1) assess consumer preference and willingness to pay for organic and food … safety inspected tomatoes in a traditional African food market; 2) compare willingness to pay for the tomato attributes in … four different elicitation techniques. We elicit willingness to pay for conventional, organic and/or food …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011191522
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Eliciting Consumer WTP for Food Characteristics in a Developing Context: Comparison of four methods in a field experiment
Alphonce, Roselyne; Alfnes, Frode - School of Economics and Business, Norges miljø- og … - 2015
This paper aims at answering two objectives;1) assess consumer preference and willingness to pay for organic and food … safety inspected tomatoes in a traditional African food market; 2) compare willingness to pay for the tomato attributes in … four different elicitation techniques. We elicit willingness to pay for conventional, organic and/or food …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011195697
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Amazing maize in Malawi: Input subsidies, factor productivity and land use intensification
Holden, Stein - School of Economics and Business, Norges miljø- og … - 2013
fertilizer causing fertilizer use inefficiency. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010819032
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Reverse Share-Tenancy and Marshallian Inefficiency: Bargaining Power of Landowners and the Sharecroppers’ Productivity
Ghebru, Hosaena H.; Holden, Stein T. - School of Economics and Business, Norges miljø- og … - 2012
Making use of a unique tenant-landlord matched data from the Tigray region of Ethiopia, we are able to show how strategic response of tenants - to varying economic and tenure security status of the landlords - is important in explaining productivity differentials of sharecroppers. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010584045
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Livestock and Land Share Contracts in a Hindu Society
Aryal, Jeetendra P.; Holden, Stein T. - School of Economics and Business, Norges miljø- og … - 2011
This paper examines factors related to the existence of a livestock rental market in western Nepal and assesses whether this is associated with caste differentiation and land rental market participation. This study brings new empirical evidence of livestock rental market against the established...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010584046