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The Uruguay Round and Welfare in Some Distorted Agricultural Economies

Anderson, James E. - 2021

There is widespread concern that the Uruguay Round may reduce the welfare of developing countries through its effect on world agricultural prices. Reduced agricultural price distortions among major supplying nations are predicted to increase basic food prices and decrease some important export...

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Agricultural Trade Reform and Rural Prosperity : Lessons from China

Huang, Jikun - 2015

Tariffs on agricultural products fell sharply in China both prior to, and as a consequence of, China's accession to the WTO. The paper examines the nature of agricultural trade reform in China since 1981, and finds that protection was quite strongly negative for most commodities, and...

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State-Owned Enterprises, Shirking and Trade Liberalization

Ghosh, Madanmohan; Whalley, John - 2021

effects on imports can also occur. These models when calibrated to 1995 data for Vietnam also suggest quantitatively much …

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Does Globalization Increase Child Labor? Evidence from Vietnam

Edmonds, Eric V.; Pavcnik, Nina - 2021

Vietnam in the 1990s. Greater market integration, at least in this case, appears to be associated with less child labor. Our …

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Heterogeneous Yield Impacts from Adoption of Genetically Engineered Corn and the Importance of Controlling for Weather

Lusk, Jayson - 2017

security. While numerous experimental and farm-level studies have found that adoption of genetically engineered crops has been … county-level corn yields from 1980 to 2015 in conjunction with data on adoption of genetically engineered crops, weather, and … genetically engineered crops have increased yields above trend. There is marked heterogeneity in the effect of adoption of …

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Modeling Processor Market Power and the Incidence of Agricultural Policy : A Non-Parametric Approach

Goodhue, Rachael E. - 2011

This paper examines interactions between market power and agricultural policy in the U.S. wheat flour milling industry using a non-parametric approach. The analysis focuses on marketing loan and pre-1986 deficiency payment programs; farmers' payments from these programs are dependent on whether...

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Farm Profits, Prices and Household Behavior

LaFave, Dan - 2020

The farm household model, in which decisions about production and consumption are made simultaneously, lies at the heart of many models of development. Empirically modelling these simultaneous choices is not straightforward. The vast majority of empirical studies assume that farm households...

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Estimating the Impact of Crop Diversity on Agricultural Productivity in South Africa

Bellora, Cecilia - 2017

Crop biodiversity has the potential to enhance resistance to strains due to biotic and abiotic factors and to improve crop production and farm revenues. To investigate the effect of crop biodiversity on crop productivity, we build a probabilistic model based on ecological mechanisms to describe...

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Financing Smallholder Agriculture : An Experiment with Agent-Intermediated Microloans in India

Maitra, Pushkar - 2014

Recent evaluations of traditional microfinance loans have found no significant impacts on borrower incomes or productive activities. We examine whether this can be remedied by (a) modifying loan features to facilitate financing of working capital needs of farmers, and (b) delegating selection of...

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Seasonal Liquidity, Rural Labor Markets and Agricultural Production

Fink, Günther - 2018

Many rural households in low and middle income countries continue to rely on small-scale agriculture as their primary source of income. In the absence of irrigation, income arrives only once or twice per year, and has to cover consumption and input needs until the subsequent harvest. We develop...

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