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Regulatory Constraints to Agricultural Productivity
Divanbeigi, Raian - 2017
The economic thinking around the role of agriculture for development has evolved since the 1950s. Over the past decades …, the agriculture sector has been rediscovered as a sector with great potential for triggering growth, reducing poverty and … measures of regulatory quality and regulatory efficiency in agriculture. Second, the paper employs cross-section data to test …
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If it Pays, it Stays : Can Agribusiness Internalize the Benefits of Malaria Control?
Sedlmayr, Richard - 2017
Might a malaria control intervention entail agricultural effects that allow a commercial agribusiness to offset its costs? The randomized allocation of 39,936 insecticide-treated mosquito nets among 81,597 smallholder cotton farming households in 1,507 clusters helps evaluate this in the context...
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Financial Development and Survival of African Agri-Food Exports
Jaud, Melise - 2017
This paper investigates the link between export survival of agri-food products and financial development. It tests the hypothesis that financial development differentially affects the survival of exports across products based on their need of external finance. The authors test whether exports of...
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Optimal Locational Choice for Agrobusinesses in Madagascar : An Application of Spatial Autoregressive Tobit Regression
Iimi, Atsushi - 2018
The traditional location theory predicts that firms' locational choice is independent of the output demand. However, firms are often concentrated in large markets. In Africa, agrobusinesses are expected to play an important role to facilitate agricultural growth but are hardly available in rural...
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Crop Production, Transport Infrastructure, and Agrobusiness Nexus : Evidence from Madagascar
Iimi, Atsushi - 2018
The literature suggests a wide range of impacts of improved transport connectivity on agricultural growth. Still, the infrastructure-growth nexus remains somewhat mysterious, particularly in the African context, because many rural farmers do not have their own transport means. Using data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912341
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Capital Adjustment and the Optimal Fuel Choice
Hyland, Marie - 2017
This paper analyzes the important, yet often ignored, link between capital adjustment and the choice of fuels used by manufacturing firms. A novel econometric framework, which explicitly incorporates heterogeneous fuel-using capital stocks in the estimation of optimal fuel choice, is applied to...
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Explaining the Last Consumption Boom-Bust Cyclein Ireland : The Role of News and Noise Shocks
Diaz Sanchez, Jose Luis - 2017
The objective of the paper is to explain the last boom and bust in consumption in Ireland by the failure of consumers …
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Moderate Inflation
Dasgupta, Susmita - 2017
Inflation persists at moderate rates (15-30 percent) in all the countries that successfully reduced triple-digit inflation in the 1980s. Several other countries--for example, Colombia--have experienced moderate inflation for prolonged periods. The authors introduce types of theories of...
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Growth Recovery in Southern Europe : A Dozen Lessons, Old and New
Islam, Roumeen - 2017
Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain entered a period of severe economic and financial stress in the aftermath of the …
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Water When it Counts : Reducing Scarcity Through Irrigation Monitoring in Central Mozambique
Christian, Paul - 2018
Management of common-pool resources in the absence of individual pricing can lead to suboptimal allocation. In the context of irrigation schemes, this can create water scarcity even when there is sufficient water to meet the total requirements. High-frequency data from three irrigation schemes...
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