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Examining Changes in the Value of Rural Land in New Zealand between 1989 and 2003

Stillman, Steven - EconWPA - 2005

Zealand between 1989 and 2003. The value of rural land reflects the profitability of agriculture as well as the returns to … to urban uses and commercial forestry, and less land initially devoted to horticulture and lifestyle uses. …

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Assessing the Economic Impacts of Incorporating Romania's Agricultural and Food Sectors into EU's Customs Union: an Applied General Equilibrium Approach

Scrieciu, Serban S. - EconWPA - 2004

Joining the European Union club implies, among many other policy changes, full integration of Romania's economy into EU's customs union. This is expected to have significant implications for domestic farmers and food processors. The paper constructs a single-country Applied General Equilibrium...

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AN EVALUATION OF POST-INDEPENDENCE AGRICULTURAL POLICIES IN RELATION TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA(1960 - 1987}

NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005

AGRICULTURE IN ITS COMMON PARLENCE INCLUDES PRODUCTION, RESEARCH AND TRAINING IN THE FIELDS OF CROPS, FORESTRY, FISHING … AND LIVESTOCK. NIGERIAN AGRICULTURE WAS CHARACTERIZED BY LOW FARM INCOMES; LOW CAPACITY LEVEL TO SATISFY FOOD AND FIBRE … APPROPRIATE STRATEGY FOR SECURING INCREASED FARM OUTPUT AND PRODUCTIVITY IN AN UNDERDEVELOPED AGRICULTURE. THIS PAPER THEREFORE …

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Investigating Non-Linearities in the Relationship Between Real Exchange Rate Volatility and Trade

Bonroy, Olivier; Gervais, Jean-Philippe; Larue, Bruno - EconWPA - 2005

Production and marketing lags in agri-food supply chains force competitive primary producers and food processors to commit to output targets before prices and exchange rates are realized. A theoretical model with one processor and many price-taking primary producers is developed to show that an...

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Investigating Non-Linearities in the Relationship Between Real Exchange Rate Volatility and Agricultural Trade

Gervais, Jean-Philippe; Larue, Bruno; Bonroy, Olivier - EconWPA - 2004

The article analyzes production and marketing lags in agri-food supply chains that force competitive producers and processors to commit to output targets before prices and exchange rates are realized. We show that export markets act as put options for exporters and an increase in the volatility...

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EXPORT DIVERSIFICATION IN LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES: AN INTERNATIONAL CHALLENGE AFTER DOHA

Bonaglia, Federico; Fukasaku, Kichiro - EconWPA - 2003

This paper discusses major policy issues related to commodity dependence and export diversification in low-income countries. Contrary to some widely-held view, it argues that natural resources are not necessarily a ‘curse’ that condemns low-income countries to underdevelopment but can...

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Market Power in International Commodity Processing Chains: Preliminary Results from the Coffee Market

Shepherd, Ben - EconWPA - 2005

Vector autoregressions are used to model price transmission through the coffee processing chain, from producers to the world market and from the world market to consumers. A comparison is made of price dynamics against a backdrop of two very different market structures: pre-1989, producers...

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The Impact of US Subsidies on the World Cotton Market: A Reassessment

Shepherd, Ben - EconWPA - 2005

Following a critical review of the existing quantitative literature on cotton subsidies, a vector autoregression (VAR) is used to model the effects of US subsidies on the world cotton market from 1965 to 2001. Surprisingly, subsidies are found to have only a limited impact on prices despite...

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INTERACTION OF FORMAL AND INFORMAL CREDIT MARKETS IN BACKWARD

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper, a model of interaction of formal and informal credit markets has been developed where the bank official (the ultimate provider of formal credit) faces a lending constraint. The bank official takes a bribe from the borrowers to disburse formal credit and he deliberately debars some...

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Poverty and Inequality in Rural Assam An Indicative Study of Seven Villages in Udalguri Subdivision, Assam (India)

Mishra, SK; Daimari, Prasen - EconWPA - 2005

This study is based on primary data collected from randomly chosen 182 households inhabiting seven sample villages in the Udalguri subdivision, Assam (india). It indicates that at least 35.85 percent of the population (and 33.52 percent of households) in the sample villages is below poverty line...

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