This paper studies how cross-sector strategic trade policy affects wages, country-wide profits, and welfare. I develop … same technology, domestic country-wide profits benefit from small import tariffs whereas foreign counterpart is hit …. Consequences on income distributions are derived. Domestic social welfare is unambiguously penalized, suggesting political …

) endogenous growth model with international knowledge spillover to study the relationship between an import tariff and economic … growth and welfare. First, unlike the past literature, we do not need to make an assumption such that the growth rates …-point BGP with both countries being incompletely specialized. Third, a higher import tariff on the consumption good in the …

and supply of maize seed influence farmer’s production decisions, which in turn reflect total output of maize. However …This paper seeks to ascertain the role of intellectual property rights (IPR) on Zimbabwe’s maize output. Specific focus … Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) in influencing maize output in Zimbabwe. While there has been an appreciation of IPR …

maize seed and fertilizer markets and food security in Malawi. Farmers, traders and officials were interviewed in both the … of maize seed and fertilizer. There was reduced demand hence low volume of sales in wholesale and retail markets. It was … due to use of fertilizer and improved maize varieties. This positive impact on yields was also related to farm size, and …

to improve the welfare of the exporting country, as well as its international terms of trade and export revenues. …

services sector production tax reduction and import tariff increase have been simulated. Simulation results imply that … reduction of services sector production tax is better than increase of import tariff in both perfect competition case and …

reveals that the costs of inputs of sugarcane i.e. urea, DAP, FYM, land preparation, seed and its application, weeding and …

fertilizer-use and the adoption of hybrid maize. Results show that Malawian farmers exhibit absolute Arrow-Pratt risk aversion … risk premium related to fertilizer-use among 404 farmers from Malawi and examine the relationship between risk aversion on … towards the use of fertilizer. The findings also reveal that risk aversion towards the use of fertilizer is strongly …

classified as arid and semi-arid. Agricultural products depend on proper rainfall. Staple food of Kenya is maize, which accounted …