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Food aid, food policy and the Uruguay round: implications for Bangladesh

Warr, Peter G.; Ahammad, Helal - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 15 (1997) 3

The relationship between the effects of food aid and those of the completion of the Uruguay Round of the GATT are studied in this paper, focusing upon the food aid recipient countries, and taking Bangladesh as an illustrative example. It is argued that, among other factors, the magnitudes of...

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Food demand in rural China: evidence from rural household survey

Fan, Shenggen; Cramer, Gail; Wailes, Eric - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 11 (1994) 1

The recent rural reforms in China have had great effects on agricultural production and productivity as well as rural household consumption. While much has been written on production and productivity effects of these reforms, very few Chinese studies have attempted to analyze the changes in...

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Determinants of agriculture's relative decline: Thailand

Martin, Will J.; Warr, Peter G. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 11 (1994) 2-3

During economic development, agriculture declines as a proportion of aggregate national output. A number of theoretical … explanations for changing sectoral GDP shares of agriculture, manufacturing and services. It is concluded that the movement in … Thailand's aggregate factor endowment relative to labor was the most important determinant of agriculture's relative decline. …

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Impact of eliminating government interventions on China's rice sector

Fan, Shenggen; Wailes, Eric; Cramer, Gail - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 11 (1994) 1

China's economy has undergone fundamental changes since 1978. Agriculture, industry and services are being transformed …

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Induced technical change in centrally planned economies

Fan, Shenggen; Ruttan, Vernon W. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 06 (1992) 4

It has generally been assumed that the inferences of the induced technical change model with respect to the direction of technical change could not be expected to hold for the centrally planned economies. In this paper we test three hypotheses generated from the induced technical change...

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Predictive performance of the World Bank's commodity price projections

Warr, Peter G. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 04 (1990) 3-4

The World Bank's commodity price projections are widely used for various planning purposes. Two aspects of the Bank's projections of relative prices are studied in this paper. The first is whether the forecasts make efficient use of the information available at the time the forecast is made. The...

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