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Mosquitoes : The Long-Term Effects of Malaria Eradication in India
Cutler, David M. - 2010
prevalence in India prior to a nationwide eradication program in the 1950s. We find that the program led to modest increases in …
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Does Agriculture Generate Local Economic Spillovers? Short-Run and Long-Run Evidence from the Ogallala Aquifer
Hornbeck, Richard - 2012
Agricultural development may support broader economic development, though agricultural expansion may also crowd-out local non-agricultural activity. On the United States Plains, areas over the Ogallala aquifer experienced windfall agricultural gains when post-WWII technologies increased farmers'...
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Groundwater irrigation in India : gains, costs and risks
Gandhi, Vasant P.; Namboodiri, N. V. - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003846784
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Agricultural economy of India and macro-economic effects : some empirical results and a research agenda based on the literature
Alagh, Munish - 2011
This paper focuses on macroeconomic linkages with agriculture. From an extensive literature review the question that … emerges is: is there a structural constraint in Indian agriculture or does Indian agriculture work in a system in which as … are the impacts of such policies on agricultural prices and interest rates for agriculture? How do they impact on …
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High-value agriculture in India : past trends and future prospects
Sharma, Vijay Paul; Jain, Dinesh - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009303156
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Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor-Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities and Optimal Farm Size
Foster, Andrew D. - 2017
scales. Using data from the India ICRISAT VLS panel survey we find evidence consistent with these conditions, suggesting that …
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Analyzing the Impact of the World's Largest Public Works Project on Crime
Das, Satadru - 2016
India started the implementation of a rural public works program in 2006, covering all districts of the country within …
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Inter-sectoral terms of trade and aggregate supply response in Gujarat and Indian agriculture
Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Sapre, Amey A. - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781323
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Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests, and Targeting of Malaria Treatment : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Cohen, Jessica - 2012
Both under- and over-treatment of communicable diseases are public bads. But efforts to decrease one run the risk of increasing the other. Using rich experimental data on household treatment-seeking behavior in Kenya, we study the implications of this tradeoff for subsidizing life-saving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108271
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Estimating the Impact of Means-Tested Subsidies Under Treatment Externalities with Application to Anti-Malarial Bednets
Bhattacharya, Debopam - 2013
Regular use of effective health-products such as insecticide-treated mosquito nets (ITN) by a household benefits its neighbors by (a) reducing chances of infection and (b) raising awareness about product-effectiveness, thereby increasing product-use. Due to their potential social benefits and...
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