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Differentiated management of GM diffusion in China: Further hampering the self-sufficiency in cereal production?

Fok, Michel; Liang, Weili; Wang, Guiyan; Wu, Yuhong - HAL - 2004

China is a big country in terms of biotech achievements. It is also a rare country demonstrating crop …

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Taux de change réel et productivité en Chine

Jeanneney, Sylviane Guillaumont; Hua, Ping - HAL - 2011

This article investigates the impact that the appreciation and the stability of the real exchange rate in China between … 1993 and 2001 have exerted on productivity growth. We give theoretical arguments explaining the impact of the real exchange … rate on productivity via its effects either on efficiency growth or on technical progress. Then for the twenty-nine Chinese …

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Technical Efﬁciency, Farm Size and Tropical Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazonian Forest

Marchand, Sébastien - HAL - 2011

This paper analyses the impact of farm productivity as well as farm size on deforestation in Brazil. A two step … impact of productivity and farm size on deforestation. Analysis of agricultural census tract data suggests that technical …

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Explaining Productivity Differentials in Eastern European Agriculture: Efficiency or Class Structure ?

Arcand, Jean-Louis; Borodak, Daniela - HAL - 2011

productivity differentials in Moldovan agriculture. We compute non-parametric measures of technical efficiency for a sample of … productivity observed in our sample, while class membership is slightly more successful. Our empirical model of class structure …

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Bankruptcy law and practice in 19th century France

Hautcoeur, Pierre-Cyrille; Levratto, Nadine - HAL - 2007

In this paper, we try to measure the impact of the changes in French bankruptcy law in the 19th century focusing on the behaviour of economic agents as users of bankruptcy law for the sake of finding the best solution to their economic problems. Debtors used bankruptcy law in order to minimize...

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Product market regulation, firm size, unemployment and informality in developing economies

Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Terra, Cristina - HAL - 2011

This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality and unemployment in a general framework where formal and informal firms are subject to the same externalities, differing only with respect to some parameter values. Both formal and informal firms have monopoly...

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Transition to IFRS and value relevance in a small but developed market: A look at Greek evidence

Tsalavoutas, Ioannis; André, Paul; Evans, Lisa - HAL - 2009

We examine the value relevance of accounting fundamentals after the mandatory transition to IFRS in Greece. We find no significant change in the value relevance of book value of equity and earnings between the 2004 pre IFRS and 2005 post IFRS periods and conclude that the accounting framework is...

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Comparing and combining energy saving policies : Will proposed residential sector policies meet French official targets ?

Giraudet, Louis-Gaëtan; Guivarch, Céline; Quirion, … - HAL - 2011

This paper assesses the impact of French policies for residential space-heating energy consumption, both enacted (tax credits for the purchase of energy efficient durables, soft loans for retrofitting actions, stringent building codes) and anticipated (carbon tax, retrofitting obligation). It...

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Lessons from the Current Food Crisis in Southern Africa

Wiggins, Steve - HAL - 2003

The food crisis in Southern Africa that stems from the crop failures of the 2001-2002 crop season has, not surprisingly, prompted much reflection on the causes of the problem and policy responses. Several official donors and NGOs have set in motion reviews, including, for example the EU and CARE...

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The Southern African Food Security Crisis, Causes and Responses

Mbaya, Sue - HAL - 2003

Over the last few decades, Southern African governments have identified the eradication or alleviation of poverty as a key objective of developmental programmes. In spite of these repeated articulations and ongoing efforts poverty levels have not fallen. In fact, poverty has gradually worsened...

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