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This paper examines European Union (E.U.) demand for chilled fish fillets assuming product heterogeneity due to country … of origin and assesses the structural adjustment in demand as indicated by the increase in imports from Sri Lanka since … the tsunami in December 2004. The primary objective of this research is to assess how Sri Lanka’s fish exports affected …
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Endowed with 80 million hectares of arable land (of which only 10 percent are used), diverse climatic conditions, and abundant water resources, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has the potential to become the breadbasket of the entire African continent. Instead, the country is one of the...
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-term price effects between the world maize market and some Ethiopian regional markets. Using the Almost Ideal Demand System, we … characteristics of household demand across locations are more likely to induce misleading policy recommendations. " from authors …
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Though input vouchers are being publicized as a mechanism to simultaneously target subsidies and develop demand in … private markets, limited empirical evidence of their effect on private input demand exists. Few empirical studies, if any …, exist on the effect of targeted subsidies on private input demand in Nigeria or West Africa . Consequently this study begins …
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this paper, we present results from an experimental demand-elicitation exercise in rural Bangladesh to shed light on …Farmers in rural Bangladesh face multiple sources of uninsured risk to agricultural production and household assets. In … evenly split their endowment between life and disability insurance and agricultural insurance. Demand for area …
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In this paper we assess (a) consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for a recently developed variety of maize that is high in provitamin A in the context of a public health intervention and (b) the performance of three elicitation mechanisms in estimating WTP in a field experiment in Ghana....
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Those who study global poverty and ways to reduce it face a perennial set of questions: Do advances in knowledge, research, and technology make a real difference in the lives of poor people? What effect does research have on the poor? Who benefits? The contributors to Agricultural Research,...
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This book describes how Bangladesh transformed its food markets and food policies to free the country from the constant … developing countries in Asia. The authors examine the shifting structure of supply and demand in the grain markets, the history … and led to policy changes. The case of Bangladesh also has more general relevance as a study of the outcomes of a market …
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financial transactions. The authors cite successful endeavors including Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, SANSA in Sri Lanka and …
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