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"This paper brings together the literatures on the political economy of public expenditures and the determinants of economic growth. Based on a new dataset of rural public expenditures in a panel of Latin American economies, the econometric evidence suggests that non-social subsidies reduce...
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The objectives of the study are to assess the impact of operational efforts in farmland restructuring and sustainable agricultural land management on vulnerability amongst rural households in Tajikistan; and to provide context and improve strategies for current operations in land reform, rural...
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in agriculture. The study finds that, while rural households are increasingly diversifying their income sources out of … farming, they have not moved away from rural areas because of the incentives to hold onto small agriculture plots and because … of the high costs of formal employment outside agriculture. Instead, households have increasingly relied on so …
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"The claim by global trade modelers that the potential contribution to global economic welfare of removing agricultural subsidies is less than one-tenth of that from removing agricultural tariffs puzzles many observers. To help explain that result, the authors first compare the OECD and...
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"The authors provide estimates of the impact that removing all merchandise trade distortions (including agricultural subsidies) would have on food and agricultural production, trade, and incomes. Using the latest versions of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) database and the World Bank's...
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commodity prices and reducing export shares of countries which do not support agriculture. One-and perhaps the only … to all sectors in the economy, not just agriculture) or at least non-sector-specific within agriculture. A simple and … sectors within agriculture should be in the form of taxpayer-funded payments. There should be no requirement of production …
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