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Recalibrating the Reported Rates of Return to Food and Agricultural R&D
Rao, Xudong; Hurley, Terrance M.; Pardey, Philip G. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
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The Effects of Agricultural Market Liberalization and Commercialization on Household Food Security in Rural China
Baylis, Katherine R.; Fan, Linlin; Nogueira, Lia - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
China underwent tremendous agricultural market reforms in the 1990s prior to its accession to the WTO, drastically decreasing domestic market distortions. We ask whether these reforms have led to agricultural commercialization and have improved the welfare of rural Chinese households measured by...
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THE IMPACT OF TRADE COSTS IN INDONESIAN AGRI-FOOD SECTORS: AN INTERREGIONAL CGE ANALYSIS
Boys, Kathryn A.; Willis, David B.; Rum, Irlan A. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
Indonesia is a Developing Country (DC) where more than 13 percent of her population live below the poverty line and approximately half of all households are near the national poverty line. While at the national level, Indonesia has sufficient food production to be self supporting, not all...
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Conflict, Food Price Shocks, and Food Insecurity: The experience of Afghan households
D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010916629
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Spousal Accord and the Costs of Household Decision-making in Tanzania and Mali
Anderson, C. Leigh; Reynolds, Travis William; Gugerty, … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
-making within households in Tanzania and Mali. We develop a theoretical model of intrahousehold “accord,” defined as the level of … (n = 1,766) and Tanzania (n = 1,997). Cluster analysis and binary logistic regression suggest that variation in intra … of intra-household accord both vary significantly by country (Mali versus Tanzania), but are consistent with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011070122
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Estimating the Relationship between Education and Food Purchases among Food Insecure Households
Hogan, John J.; Berning, Joshua P. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
As food insecurity and obesity become more severe, researchers and policy makers have increased their efforts to understand the causes of these problems. The purpose of this paper is to examine what effect education has on household expenditure for healthful foods, especially among the food...
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Price Dynamics in Food-Energy Market in China
Yang, Juan; Leatham, David J. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
In this paper we examine price transmission for major agriculture (food) and energy products in China for the years 2004 to 2010. The Error correction model (ECM) and the directed acyclic graphs (DAG) are applied to identify price dynamics among these six variables: rice, wheat, corn, coal,...
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The Role of Rural Producer Organizations for Agricultural Service Provision in Fragile States
Ragasa, Catherine; Golan, Jennifer - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
Using structural equation models and data from three provinces in the Democratic Republic of Congo, we assess the factors affecting external linkages among rural producer organizations and determinants of performance in agricultural service provision in a post-conflict setting. Environmental...
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Measuring Market Integration in the Presence of Threshold Effect: The Case of Bangladesh Rice Markets
Alam, Mohammad Jahangir; McKenzie, Andrew M.; Buysse, Jeroen - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
Spatial price integration among five major Bangladesh rice markets is examined in the presence of threshold effects to account for the impact of transaction costs in the price adjustment process. Hansen and Seo (2002) threshold cointegration tests and threshold vector error correction models...
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The Sophistication and Diversification of the African Agricultural Sector: A Product Space Approach
Badibanga, Thaddee Mutumba; Ulimwengu, John M. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
We use the concept of the product space to analyze the key features of the transformation process in Africa with a focus on the agricultural sector. Between 1962 and 2008, we find that both specialization and diversification occur for the overall economy and across sectors. Our findings also...
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