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The Political Economy of Food Pricing Policy in China
Huang, Jikun; Zhang, Jun; Rozelle, Scott - eSocialSciences - 2013
The overall goal of this paper is to analyse the political economy of food price policies in China during the global food crisis. The results show that given China’s unique economic and political context and the nature of its agricultural markets, the government’s reaction to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133192
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Natural Resource Conservation, Use and Sustainability in Drylands
Alagh, Yoginder - eSocialSciences - 2007
This keynote address of the conference on Natural Resource Conservation Use and Sustainability in Drylands, focuses mainly on some new concepts of resource assessments in dry areas, some recent debates on organizational ideas on communities and their institutions; larger issues to place the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487608
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Tamil Nadu Budget 2008-09
Government, Tamil Nadu - eSocialSciences - 2008
Speech of Prof. K. Anbazhagan, Minister for Finance, Government of Tamil Nadu, presenting the Budget for 2008-2009 to the Legislative Assembly on 20th March, 2008.
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Sustainability of Indian Agriculture: Towards an Assessment
Rao, V.M. - eSocialSciences - 2007
This paper presents a systemic framework to look at the prospects for sustainability of Indian agriculture. The … shaping the growth, efficiency and stability of agriculture. The domains are: Natural resources covering land, water, climate … prospects for agriculture are seen to depend in the final analysis not so much on nature or factors beyond control as on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699187
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Peasant Classes, Farm Incomes and Rural Indebtedness: An Analysis of Household Production Data from Two States
Banerjee, Arindam - eSocialSciences - 2009
The paper attempts to appraise the extent of the constraint of credit relations on agricultural production and its differential impact across peasant classes. Additionally, the analysis of the structure of rural indebtedness across peasant classes and size-class groups reveal the significance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004988398
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The Effect of Direct Foreign Investment on Domestic Firms: Evidence from Firm Level Panel Data in Emerging Economies
Konings, Jozef - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper uses firm level panel data to investigate empirically the effects of direct foreign investment (DFI) on the productivity performance of domestic firms in three emerging economies of Central and Eastern Europe, Bulgaria, Romania and Poland. To this end a unique firm level panel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008458161
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An Analysis of the Special Safeguard Mechanisms in the Doha Round of Negotiations A Proposed Price-trigger-based Safeguard Mechanism
Pal, Parthapratim; Wadhwa, Deepika - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper takes a detailed look at the SSM and analyzes its usefulness for developing countries. It also explores how the concept of a special agricultural safeguard has evolved in the present round of negotiations and what are the country positions on SSMs in the Doha Round. The paper then...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511371
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Agricultural Impact of Climate Change: A General Equilibrium Analysis with Special Reference to Southeast Asia
Zhai, Fan; Zhuang, Juzhong - eSocialSciences - 2009
distribution of productivity losses across global regions would bring significant structural adjustments in world wide agriculture …Capitalizing on the most recent worldwide estimates of the impacts of climate change on agriculture production, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512433
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Report of the Task Force on Plantations Sector
Commerce, Ministry of; GOI, Industry - eSocialSciences - 2011
Today there is no credible alternative facility available to a grower to meet the risks of price movements and the art of price risk management is unknown to the small growers. (In this entire report, the Task Force designates a grower upto 10ha of holding plantation land as a small grower). To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002227
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Report of the Task Force on Credit Related Issues of Farmers
eSocialSciences; National Bank for Agriculture and … - 2011
The Task Force visited 45 villages across 17 states and held state and regional level consultations to understand from women and men farmers, bankers, civil society, academicians, planners, activists, money lenders (both new and old) what the issues were and what now needs to be done to ensure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002233