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In this study, we analyze the effects of trade liberalization and productivity growth in agricultural activities on Turkey by using a dynamic CGE model calibrated to 2008 data. The simulation results suggest that Turkish economy is capable of accommodating the adverse effects of trade...
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. In particular, the article will show that contrary to expectations, agriculture is no longer a major source of income to … proportion of the rural population that depend on agriculture that is poor is smaller than the non-poor, as is that among the … agriculture to show that no significant improvement in rural economic activities has been observed. During the period 1995 …
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The Chilean economy is strongly export-oriented, which is also true for the Chilean agribusiness industry. This paper … effects of labour-quality, the extent of export orientation and the impact of paid subsidies to the agribusiness firms. Raw … materials and labour have to largest impact on the output, but with a different input-intensity for the different agribusiness …
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This paper reports on and analyzes primary survey data obtained from a survey of household heads on the rural village of Nshakazhogwe, a typical rural village in northeast Botswana. It examines the associations between the incidence of poverty of household heads in this village and the values of...
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Although middle income countries such as Botswana are credited with reliable data that are used in poverty measures, it is sometimes argued that the time lags between data generations or surveys are too wide. The Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) in Botswana takes place every 10...
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Reports responses to interviews conducted in three rural villages in Eastern India in January 2000 as well as replies to questions asked at a forest meeting in West Bengal of groups/persons interested in rural women and development. The questions were designed to provide information on...
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This note gives a simple, but useful characterization of optimism and pessimism represented by a convex and concave shift of probability weighting functions, and applies it to two comparative static analysis.
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