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Brey, Björn; Hertweck, Matthias S. - 2019

This paper examines the dynamic effects of monsoon rainfall shocks on yield, wages, and prices in the Indian agricultural sector. We distinguish between positive and negative rainfall shocks and explicitly consider their spatial dimension (local/regional). We find that particularly negative...

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Informal credit markets, interlinkage and migration

Khwaja, Yasmeen - 2002

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Rural transformation, inequality, and the origins of microfinance

Süße, Marvin; Wolf, Nikolaus - 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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Financial lives and the vicious cycle of debt among Thai agricultural households

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Do performance ranks increase productivity? : evidence from a field experiment

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Can a firm increase its workers' eff ort by introducing competition through performance-based ranking? On one hand such ranking can increase eff ort because of individuals' desire for status from high ranks, but on the other, it can demotivate them or make them wary of outperforming peers. This...

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Agriculture productivity growth in Brazilian micro-regions

Carvalho, Alexandre Ywata de; Laureto, Camilo Rey; … - 2016

assess the sector's productivity gain over time. However, the regional analysis of agricultural productivity still is not … investigated. This work focuses on mapping the gain of agricultural productivity in Brazil in the years 1990-2012 by micro …-region. After an overview of the behavior of productivity in the major regions, will be studied the ten major crops relative to the …

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Technological clusters in Brazilian agriculture : production and challenges

Vieira Filho, José Eustáquio Ribeiro - 2017

This study aims to analyze the evolution of Brazilian agricultural production from the 1960s to now. We will summarize some of the main findings from the historical view of Brazilian agriculture development. The arguments should rest here on how technical change and the national system of...

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The impact of uncertainty shocks : firm level estimation and a 9/11 simulation

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Volatility, labor market flexibility, and the pattern of comparative advantage

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Really uncertain business cycles

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