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-the-border policies like output subsidies, R&D subsidies, and public R&D investments. This is a new type of protectionism that becomes … restraints, and minimum price agreements) as well as “behind-the-border†policies (output subsidies, R&D subsidies, and public … on R&D, as well as the impact of production subsidies, public R&D investments, and minimum price agreements on private R …
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Food insecurity at the national and household level not only is a consequence of conflict but can also cause and drive conflicts. This paper makes the case for an even higher priority for food security–related policies and programs in conflict-prone countries.
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Fertilizer consumption rates in Nigeria remains among the lowest in the world despite decades of aggressive subsidization. The extension service in Nigeria has a double-edged impact on fertilizer use in the country; not only can their activities increase farmers’ demand for fertilizer, but...
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Identity theft is a common crime the world over. In developing countries, the damage caused by identity theft and identity fraud goes far beyond the individual victim, however, and ultimately creates a direct impediment to progress, particularly in credit markets. Recent research reveals that...
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. In response to the fiscal cost and ineffective implementation of these subsidies, as well as pressure from international … on fertilizer distribution and phased out universal subsidies." from text …
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"High production and export subsidies in developed countries and high protection in both developed and developing … markets in Latin America and shows that reduction of direct and implicit export subsidies in the US will benefit regional … tariff-rate quota and reduction in production subsidies would have significant impact on import volume and price. Prices and …
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Most countries in sub-Saharan Africa have reduced or eliminated fertilizer subsidies and liberalized input marketing as …
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, when developed countries fully remove their subsidies and trade barriers, welfare and GDP of the developing countries rise … increases $23 billion and agricultural exports by $37 billion. Second, when developing countries also eliminate their subsidies … productivity—the focal results cited above include this impact. Effects are distinguished between elimination of subsidies and …
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"Brazil is the world's largest producer of ethanol, a biofuel used mainly in automobiles as an additive or alternative to gasoline. In the mid-1970s the country undertook a major program to produce ethanol, and since then the industry has had both successes and failures. Although Brazil's...
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This paper uses project and household data to examine the ability of 100 or so public works projects in Western Cape Province, South Africa, to target benefits—both direct and indirect—to those living below the poverty line. We find that public works projects generally outperform...
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