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The economic literature of property rights has been assessing the impact of different community based arrangements on the efficiency of natural resource management of specific areas. Differently, other strands of development economics and policy-oriented research have been concerned with issues...
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India's economic standing and its policy landscape have come a long way since the 1943 Bengal famine. History saw buffer stocking of food grains as a famine-combating tool. Today, apart from serving as an effective hedge in times of famines, such grain stocks are a conduit deployed by the...
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The study revealed the strong impact of policy measures on production, procurement, stocks and trade. We detected several market distortions and mounting fiscal costs. Wheat and rice supply strongly and significantly respond to the minimum support price (MSP). Wholesale prices at planting or...
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In this article we study the long-run average rate of forest conversion in Brazil. Deforestation results from the … be used in our model. The object of our simulation is Brazil and 27 states. Our aim is to compute under several scenarios …
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the state. Since then, Brazil has adopted a policy regime that combines both neoliberal policies - associated with those … outcomes, such as life expectancy and infant mortality, have improved significantly. What steps did Brazil take to achieve … agent in inducing development in Brazil opens a window of opportunity to create a virtuous complementarity between health …
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Patterns of change in citizenship regimes help explain differences in tax structure in Brazil and India. Changes to … progressivity, and the universality of application of tax across sectors and regions. Since the 1970s in Brazil and India, excluded … identities mobilized, the demands articulated, and the mechanisms of linkage between state and society. In Brazil, a cross …
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