This paper compares the direct and indirect effects of rest-of-the-world (ROW) policy on welfare in country A: the … direct effect due to the change in world price caused by the policy in the absence of research/promotion-induced shifts in … supply/ demand, and the additional (or indirect) effect of the policy on the welfare gain to country A from its investment in …

This paper presents a spatial multi-agent programming model, which has been developed for assessing policy options in …

assess the options available to Chinese policy makers. We compare the welfare effects of import tariffs and domestic support …

underlying assumptions, and sets out to investigate the appropriate mix of policy variables necessary for establishing an … incorporate and utilize an appropriate mix of policy variables to enhance the effectiveness of the rural banks in Nigeria. …

This paper seeks to quantify the acreage responses of wheat, cotton, sugarcane and rice in Pakistan using co …-integration techniques and impulse response analysis. Results indicate that acreages of wheat and basmati rice do not respond significantly … to shocks in own-price while cotton, sugarcane and high yielding variety (HYV) rice do, and that long-run equilibrium is …

irrigation), are compared in terms of rice production efficiency. Using farm household data collected by the authors in Tamil … Nadu, India, it is found that the profit of rice production using well water only is low due to the high labour input …

The rice industry in New South Wales, Australia, has benefited from the international flow of germplasm, as have other …. Analysis is made of the origins and pedigrees of the rice varieties grown in New South Wales since the 1960s, and the … USA. The analysis also reveals that the International Rice Research Institute has had no impact on the germplasm used in …