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France is the top agricultural producer in the European Union (EU), and agriculture plays a prominent role in the …
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schemes to strengthen mitigation incentives for the transportation, industry, building, forestry, and agricultural sectors …
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This paper reviews forestry reform in the Congo basin, focusing on Gabon. It argues that the key challenge for the … Congo basin countries is to manage their forests in a sustainable manner. It presents the current situation of forestry … taxation and forestry reform in Gabon. The paper analyzes optimal taxation in the forestry sector using a static model. The …
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Countries generally tax the forestry sector to achieve the twin objectives of revenue maximization and sustainability …-have limited the use of auctions so far, particularly in low-income countries. To establish transparency of the forestry sector …
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This paper analyses the economic costs of current agricultural policies in Turkmenistan. It argues that the opportunity cost of continuing with these policies is very high for the budget, the average farmer, and the economy as a whole. The paper calls for the development of nontraditional...
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This paper examines the recent difficulties experienced in U.S. agriculture, and discusses the role played by …
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This paper empirically assesses the role of structural and institutional reforms in driving productivity growth across countries at different stages of development, using a distance-to-frontier framework. It gauges whether particular policies and reforms matter more for increasing productivity...
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Lagging labor reallocations outside agriculture amid sustained low agricultural productivity have been a key feature in … the Philippines over the past 15 years. An analysis of the labor adjustments in and out of agriculture shows that a … from agriculture, whilst the lack of post-primary education and the presence of agricultural clusters hinder such outflows …
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A large share of cross-country differences in productivity is explained by differences in agricultural productivity. Using a combination of sub-national agricultural statistics and geospatial datasets on crop-specific potential yields, we study the main drivers of this variation from a...
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