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The Emergence of Agriculture: Trickle-Down Growth and Climate Change
Teraji, Shinji - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 1, pp. 913-922
This paper analyzes a model of the transition to agriculture by allowing heterogeneous agents to make the decision on whether to engage in farming or foraging. The threshold level, which divides foragers from farmers, depends on both agricultural productivity and foraging efficiency. As...
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Price Convergence in the EU Poultry and Eggs Markets
Fousekis, Panos - In: Economics Bulletin 3 (2008) 18, pp. 1-11
This paper uses the notions of convergence in ratio and of convergence in difference to investigate price convergence … strong convergence of prices in the poultry markets but not in the egg markets. The latter appear to be fragmented into a … number of price convergence clubs. …
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Price Convergence in the EU Poultry and Eggs Markets
Fousekis, Panos - In: Economics Bulletin 3 (2008) 18, pp. 1-11
This paper uses the notions of convergence in ratio and of convergence in difference to investigate price convergence … strong convergence of prices in the poultry markets but not in the egg markets. The latter appear to be fragmented into a … number of price convergence clubs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010629612
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Policy Reforms and Incentives in Rice Production in Bangladesh
Selim, Sheikh; Parvin, Naima - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 1, pp. 461-471
) of rice production in Bangladesh. The incentive component of TFP assists in explaining how farmers responded to the …
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Crop Diversification to Mitigate Flood Vulnerability in Bangladesh: An Economic Approach
Rayhan, Md. Israt; Grote, Ulrike - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 1, pp. 597-604
conducted just two weeks after monsoon and flash floods had occurred in four districts of Bangladesh in 2005. After estimating … flood is riskier for staple crops. This study suggests a mixed cropping system in rural Bangladesh to minimize households …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010630283
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Policy Reforms and Incentives in Rice Production in Bangladesh
Selim, Sheikh; Parvin, Naima - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 1, pp. 461-471
) of rice production in Bangladesh. The incentive component of TFP assists in explaining how farmers responded to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008562908
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Crop Diversification to Mitigate Flood Vulnerability in Bangladesh: An Economic Approach
Rayhan, Md. Israt; Grote, Ulrike - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 1, pp. 597-604
conducted just two weeks after monsoon and flash floods had occurred in four districts of Bangladesh in 2005. After estimating … flood is riskier for staple crops. This study suggests a mixed cropping system in rural Bangladesh to minimize households …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563052
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GDP per Capita among African Countries over the Period 1950–2008: Highlights of Convergence Clubs
Rey, Serge; Deisting, Florent - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 4, pp. 2779-2800
Using intradistribution dynamics and panel unit root tests, this study considers the economic convergence processes of … 53 African countries during the period 1950–2008. The stochastic evidence reveals no global convergence among African … countries but provides indications of convergence clubs. The poorest countries remained relatively poor, stuck in a poverty trap …
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Innovation, Growth and Convergence in the Euro-Mediterranean Area: Implications for MENA Countries
Péridy, Nicolas - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 4, pp. 2978-2986
implications in terms of growth and convergence. Using a large set of innovation variables, we estimate a growth model à la Barro … the estimation of a convergence model, which shows that differences in innovation between MENA countries explain … differences in the convergence process of these countries toward EU GDP per capita. These results have important policy …
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What about regions in regional science? A convergence exercise using different geographic scales of European Union
Resende, Guilherme Mendes; Cravo, Tulio A. - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 3, pp. 1381-1395
in the analysis of the convergence process of European Union (EU15) regions by systematically applying a method to … results suggest that convergence pattern of EU regions depends on the spatial scale of analysis and that convergence occurs …
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