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This paper examines the effects of deforestation on the welfare of rural communities in the Congo Basin. Using moment conditions of agricultural and forest exploitations, findings indicate deforestation significantly improves welfare both at overall-rural and agricultural household per capita...
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Recent distressing trends in climate change, population explosion and deforestation inspired this paper, which completes existing literature by providing empirical justification to hypothetical initiatives on the impact of population growth on forest sustainability in Africa. Using three moment...
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This paper explores the impact of water management on output, labor, and capital growth for an agriculture …-based developing economy like Pakistan. According to empirical findings, capital stock and labor force in the agriculture sector …
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efficiency of agriculture, using mainly (among other) output per worker and output per square of arable land indexes, and … (per hour and industry PPP); novelty of application of Solow methodology to Russia`s agriculture industry. …
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early nineteenth centuries – such as real wages, labor productivity in agriculture, and urbanization – also fails to confirm …
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In the past 30 years, the historiography of colonial Pampean agriculture showed a radical change. The “Bonaerense …-producing regions of the Spanish Empire. This new hermeneutics of colonial agriculture differs radically from the descriptions and … for forming this "new vision" of colonial agriculture was the “Diezmos” (Tithe). In this research, we propose first to …
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We present a comprehensive macroeconomic model for the U.S. There exist strict long-term relations between real GDP, price inflation, labor force participation, productivity, and unemployment. The evolution of real GDP depends only on exogenous demographic forces. Other macro-variables follow up...
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An empirical model is presented linking inflation and unemployment rate to the change in the level of labour force in Switzerland. The involved variables are found to be cointegrated and we estimate lagged linear deterministic relationships using the method of cumulative curves, a simplified...
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forecast error (RMSFE) of 1.0% per year at a four-year horizon for the period between 1971 and 2004. The same RMSFE is … naive (no change) forecast, RMSFE at the same time horizon is 2.95% and 3.3% per year, respectively. Our model outperforms …
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inflation prediction, as described by the root-mean-square (forecasting) error is by 20% to 70% better than that estimated by AR …(1) model. The estimates of model forecasting error are available for those time series where the change in labour force … forecasting, which in turn, is not worse than any other forecasting model. The level of statistical reliability and the predictive …
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