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This paper estimates a model of a farm that treats the choice of crops, livestock, and irrigation as endogenous. The model is composed of a multinomial choice of farm type, a binomial choice of irrigation, and a set of conditional land value functions. The model is estimated across over 2,000...
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This study examines the major constraints of rural business entry and performance in Yemen. The Yemen rural investment climate survey made it possible to analyze rural investment climate constraints for rural businesses. The survey was used to investigate both farm and nonfarm rural enterprises....
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Many African countries rely on sporadic land transfers from customary to statutory domains to attract investment and improve agricultural performance. Data from 15,000 smallholders and 800 estates in Malawi allow exploring the long-term effects of such a strategy. The results suggest that (i)...
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without a corresponding increase in research and development investment as a share of national income. The model predicts that … intellectual property rights determine global patterns of research and development effort, and intellectual property rights tend to … raise the effect of education on the incidence of research and development …
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The authors propose four economic principles for use in deciding taxing responsibilities for various levels of government. These are: 1) efficiency of the internal common market - for efficiency in internal common market, taxes on mobile factors and tradable goods should either be assigned to...
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outputs is patents. The main variables related to innovation inputs are investment in research and development (R&D) and …
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identified as a major source of the disequilibrium of world agriculture. Recently, as many high-performing economies in Asia … advantage from agriculture to manufacturing. In order to prevent this disparity from culminating in serious social and political …-income stage tinkering and ineffective. Greater research inputs in this area are called for in order to prevent the growth momentum …
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. Previous research, by contrast, has relied on either observed sale prices or net revenues, sometimes aggregated over …. Furthermore, it tackles the challenges involved in modeling the effect of climate on agriculture in a study that includes … countries in the northern and southern hemispheres, as well as the tropics. The study confirms that African agriculture is …
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policy should be developed to cope with the adverse effects of climate change on agriculture. It should focus on three areas …
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This report assesses the economic impacts of climate change on agriculture in Zambia, using the Ricardian method. A …
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