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Forthcoming in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
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Replaced with revised version of paper on 10/26/10.
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Since 2003, the NEPAD Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) has been endorsed by African Heads … Africa. The program aims at stimulating agriculture-led development that eliminates hunger and reduces poverty and food …
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This article is concerned with the methodological question of frontier production functions estimation for agriculture …
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Colombia negotiated bilateral Trade Agreements (TAs) with the United States and with the MERCOSUR region (Argentina …, consumers are better off and there are net gains to society with free trade agreements. These net gains tend to increase over … compete with imported beef, primarily from MERCOSUR. We argue that this is possible because the elimination of trade barriers …
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Vaccines against several common foodborne pathogens are being developed and could substantially alter the policy tools available to address foodborne illness. However, little analysis is available to suggest how social welfare would be affected by these new vaccines. To address this void, we use...
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This paper assesses the cost efficiency of indicator-based targeting. Using household survey data from Malawi, we examine whether an indicator-based targeting of the poor is more target- and cost-efficient than the currently used mechanisms for targeting agricultural subsidy programs in the...
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We report results of an analysis of the attribution of relative responsibility across the stages of the food chain for ensuring food safety. Specifically, we identify perceptions of the share of the overall responsibility that each stage in the food chain has to ensure that the meat people cook...
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Replaced with revised version of paper 08/06/10.
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