) 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 …

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 …

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 …

marketing channels to ensure food security, realize welfare impacts from policies, bridge the gap between the affluent and …/slowly than others warrants examining the regional maize market linkages within the past decade. Using regional monthly wholesale … robustness and the limitations of other approaches. Results indicate that regional maize markets are integrated. Bidirectional …

A cereal in full expansion, maize is currently eaten by two out of every three Cameroonians. The NCRE (National Cereals … Research and Extension) project introduced and distributed new improved varieties to increase maize output. The objective of … this research is to study determinants guiding the adoption of new varieties of maize following the example of “Cameroon …

This paper presents a pair of models of the storage of maize. One is directly based on standard financial models of … agents optimize holdings of maize by choosing from a variety of storage locations. Agents face a tradeoff between the effort … of transporting maize to high elevation granaries versus the safety they offer from theft. The second model uses a multi …