During 1985-93 the U.S. Government provided $4.9 billion in subsidies to targeted foreign buyers of U.S. wheat under … of wheat have not opposed the program; and the program received an initial boost because of its use of large government …-owned wheat stocks, allowing it to be treated as budget neutral in Congress. An economic argument that carried political weight …

This paper uses regression analysis to study the causes and impacts of the Export Enhancement Program for wheat. We … attributable to the overvaluation of the dollar in the 1980s, not the increase in EC subsidies to wheat farmers in 1985. We also …

the result of mechanization rather than biological innovations. This paper shows that, to the contrary, U.S. wheat … grown and cultural practices employed. Without these changes, vast expanses of the wheat belt could not have sustained …

approach is illustrated in an application to the dynamics of productivity applied to historical data on wheat yield in Kansas …

While India is distinctive among developing countries for its fast-growing service sector, sceptics have raised doubts …

, firm-level data from India's organized manufacturing sector to show that market-share reallocations did play an important … role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate … attributed to India's trade liberalization and FDI reforms. Finally, we construct a panel dataset that allows us to track firms …

assemblies in India generated by national policies that cause reservations to be revised and the time lags with which revised …

/capita, shares in world trade and market capitalization attributable both jointly and single to China, India, and Brazil (the three … time. In contrast the North‐China gap falls from 57.2 to 13.1 between 1990 and 2009, and India from 70.4 to 38.1 using … market exchange rates and from 23.4 to 5.5 for China and from 20.7 to 11.4 for India using PPP rates. We calculate the …

) on total factor productivity (TFP) and labor productivity in India. Identification of the effect of EPL follows from a …

The threat posed by smoking to health in India is severe. Already 1 in 5 of all adult male deaths and 1 in 20 of all … adult female deaths at ages 30-69 are due to smoking and India will soon have 1 million smoking deaths a year. Increasing … smoked tobacco in India, are largely untaxed, while cigarettes are taxed at about 40% of retail price, well below the 65 …