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Implications of the fertilizer-subsidy programme on income growth, productivity, and employment in Ghana
Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Gafa, Dede; Abubakari, Maliha; … - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012267364
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Linking farmers to futures market in India
Chatterjee, Tirtha; Raghunathan, Raghav; Gulati, Ashok - 2019
Farmers, especially small and marginal, do not directly trade in agri-futures market in India. Their small size, lack … necessity of having forward looking cropping patterns, where farmers' planting decisions are based on future prices rather than … farmers to FPOs and second, FPOs to futures market. Based on this research about constraints, the paper puts forward a few …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052545
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Junior farmer field schools, agricultural knowledge and spillover effects : quasi-experimental evidence from Northern Uganda
Bonan, Jacopo; Pagani, Laura - 2016
We analyse the impact of a junior farmer field school project in Northern Uganda on students’ agricultural knowledge and practices. We also test for the presence of intergenerational learning spillover within households. We use differences-in-differences estimators with ex-ante matching. We...
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The value of terroir : hedonic estimation of Vineyard sale prices
Cross, Robin; Plantinga, Andrew; Stavins, Robert N. - 2011
We examine the value of terroir, which refers to the special characteristics of a place that impart unique qualities to the wine produced. We do this by conducting a hedonic analysis of vineyard sales in the Willamette Valley of Oregon to ascertain whether site attributes, such as slope, aspect,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008840967
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Money for wine? : complementarities in the provision of private and public goods to wine producers
Gibbons, María Amelia; Maffioli, Alessandro; Rossi, … - 2016
This paper evaluates the impact of two programs that provide public and private goods, in the form of irrigation canals and materials (such as hail nets). Using a twelve-year panel of wine producers from Mendoza and San Juan, Argentina, we find that the programs have had positive and significant...
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New evidence on using expert ratings to proxy for wine quality in climate change research
Kumar, Amogh Prakasha; Meriluoto, Laura; Watt, Richard - 2021
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Public expenditures and the performance of Latin American and Caribbean agriculture
Anriquez, Gustavo; Foster, William E.; Ortega, Jorge; … - 2016
Economic theory and econometric evidence support the thesis that the displacement of government expenditures on public goods by subsidies to private goods inhibits the performance of the farm sector. This paper presents an analysis of the influence of the mix of expenditures related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011545434
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Distributional and economy-wide effects of post-conflict policy in Colombia
Jiménez, Dora Elena; Saldarriaga-Isaza, Adrián; … - 2020
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A comprehensive approach to the euro-area debt crisis : background calculations
Darvas, Zsolt M.; Gouardo, Christophe; Pisani-Ferry, Jean; … - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008907698
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What ails Greece? : the two perspectives in macroeconomics
Phelps, Edmund S. - 2015 - Revised September 2015
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