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Does Climate Change Make Foodgrain Yields More Unpredictable? Evidence from India
Verma, Saumya - 2020
How would climate change affect India's agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact … of climate change on the level and variability of yields of rice (India's major food crop) and two key millet crops … (sorghum and pearl millet), using an all India district level panel dataset from 1966-2011. A stochastic production function is …
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Trends and Patterns of Growth, Development, Achievements of China and India: A Comparative Analysis
Bhattacharyay, Biswa Nath; Bhattacharyay, Madhurima - 2016
given to the re-emergence of the Asian giants, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and India. Both countries have attained … unprecedented growth and economic development—PRC and India became the second and fourth largest economies of the world … from US$341 in 1990 to US$4,421 in 2010 whereas India posted a four times growth from US$384 in 1990 to US$1,342 in 2010 …
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Does Climate Change Make Foodgrain Yields More Unpredictable? Evidence from India
Verma, Saumya; Gupta, Shreekant; Sen, Partha - 2020
How would climate change affect India's agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact … of climate change on the level and variability of yields of rice (India's major food crop) and two key millet crops … (sorghum and pearl millet), using an all India district level panel dataset from 1966-2011. A stochastic production function is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207926
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Inefficient Water Pricing and Incentives for Conservation
Chakravorty, Ujjayant - 2019
We use two randomized controlled trials in Bangladesh to study a simple water conservation technology for rice production called “Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD)”. Despite proven results in agronomic trials, our first experiment shows that AWD only saves water and increases profits in...
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PRC Industrial Policies Postdate Rather than Lead Economic Activity
Holz, Carsten A. - 2020
Industrial policies are widely credited with upgrading the economic structure of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and advancing its economy towards and beyond the current technological frontier. Yet the data suggest that the PRC's economy-wide investment patterns—with investment embodying...
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The Intellectual Spoils of War? Defense R&D, Productivity and International Spillovers
Moretti, Enrico - 2019
which governments shape innovation, and dwarf all other public subsidies for innovation. We examine the impact of government …
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Optimal monitoring to implement clean technologies when pollution is random
Macho-Stadler, Inés; Pérez-Castrillo, David - 2007
We analyze a model where firms chose a production technology which, together with some random event, determines the final emission level. We consider the coexistence of two alternative technologies: a "clean" technology, and a "dirty" technology. The environmental regulation is based on taxes...
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Optimal liability sharing and court errors: An exploratory analysis
Boyer, Marcel; Porrini, Donatella - 2010
We focus in this paper on the effects of court errors on the optimal sharing of liability between firms and financiers, as an environmental policy instrument. Using a structural model of the interactions between firms, financial institutions, governments and courts we show, through numerical...
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Satisfaction with democracy and the environment in Western Europe : a panel analysis
Wagner, Alexander F.; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2006
We construct a panel of satisfaction with democracy (SWD) and economic, institutional, and environmental variables for 1990-2001 for fifteen European countries. In this sample, controlling for a number of factors, we find that average SWD is higher where (1) there exists an energy / CO2 tax,...
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Toward a sustainable transport development in Asia and the Pacific
Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - 2011
Despite remarkable growth during the last decade, Asia and the Pacific still faces extensive basic infrastructure needs. Furthermore, to cope up with the reduced export demand from advanced economies arising out of the ongoing financial crisis, the region needs to enhance its connectivity...
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