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Mosquitoes : The Long-Term Effects of Malaria Eradication in India
Cutler, David M. - 2010
prevalence in India prior to a nationwide eradication program in the 1950s. We find that the program led to modest increases in …
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Does Agriculture Generate Local Economic Spillovers? Short-Run and Long-Run Evidence from the Ogallala Aquifer
Hornbeck, Richard - 2012
Agricultural development may support broader economic development, though agricultural expansion may also crowd-out local non-agricultural activity. On the United States Plains, areas over the Ogallala aquifer experienced windfall agricultural gains when post-WWII technologies increased farmers'...
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Rural Transformation, Inequality, and the Origins of Microfinance
Suesse, Marvin - 2019
What determines the development of rural financial markets? Starting from a simple theoretical framework, we derive the factors shaping the market entry of rural microfinance institutions across time and space. We provide empirical evidence for these determinants using the expansion of credit...
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Measuring the Immeasurable : The Evolution of the Size of Informal Economy in the Agricultural Sector in the EU-15 Up to 2019
Schneider, Friedrich; Morkunas, Mangirdas; Quendler, Erika - 2021
This study is the first scientific attempt to calculate the size of the informal economy in agriculture. The Multiple … higher levels of informal economy in agriculture compared to the overall economy. The impact of subsidies and farm … organizations on the development of the informal economy are two important factors for these higher values in agriculture. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239559
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Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor-Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities and Optimal Farm Size
Foster, Andrew D. - 2017
scales. Using data from the India ICRISAT VLS panel survey we find evidence consistent with these conditions, suggesting that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946022
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Analyzing the Impact of the World's Largest Public Works Project on Crime
Das, Satadru - 2016
India started the implementation of a rural public works program in 2006, covering all districts of the country within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985574
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Impacts of Droughts and Floods on Agricultural Productivity in New Zealand as Measured from Space
Blanc, Élodie; Noy, Ilan - 2022
This study estimates the impact of excess precipitation (or the absence of rainfall) on productivity of agricultural land parcels in New Zealand. This type of post-disaster damage assessments aims to allow for quantification of disaster damage when on-the-ground assessment of damage is too...
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Promotion of trade and Investments between China and India : the case of Southwest China and East and Northeast India
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; De, Prabir - 2005
(China) and India - in trade, investments and infrastructure development can foster outward-oriented development and economic … economic integration between China and India involving common neighbouring countries could be increasing. This paper discusses … the above subject in the context of possible areas of China - India economic cooperation and integration in the Eastern …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261307
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Sinking Land: Optimal Control of Subsidence
Sen, Suphi; Verhoeven, Dewy; Weikard, Hans-Peter - 2023
Land subsidence threatens the living conditions of roughly 1.2 billion people worldwide in deltaic regions characterized by soft top soil. Economic activity in deltaic regions requires lowering the groundwater levels to keep the land sufficiently dry to maintain productivity, which, however,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469856
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Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests, and Targeting of Malaria Treatment : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Cohen, Jessica - 2012
Both under- and over-treatment of communicable diseases are public bads. But efforts to decrease one run the risk of increasing the other. Using rich experimental data on household treatment-seeking behavior in Kenya, we study the implications of this tradeoff for subsidizing life-saving...
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