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Even though the intention of the government is to promote private sector-led mechanization, findings suggest that the AMSEC model is unlikely to be a profitable business model attractive to private investors even with the current level of subsidy. The low tractor utilization rate as a result of...
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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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