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The agricultural and food sector is an ideal case for investigating the political economy of public policies. Many of the policy developments in this sector since the 1950s have been sudden and transformational, while others have been gradual but persistent. This paper reviews and synthesizes...
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The paper proposes a modification of Baulch's parity bounds model to measure the market integration of food markets in developing countries. Instead of extrapolating a single observation of transaction costs, it estimates transaction costs. Predicted transaction costs compare well with survey...
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products in Bolivia, across the four most important cities, and with the world, over the period 1991-2008. Within Bolivia …. However, only chicken, sugar, cooking oil, and rice are integrated with world markets, with incomplete and slow transmission … faster when the world price increases than when it decreases. This points to a perennial recommendation: the importance of …
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This paper revisits the extent of seasonality in African livelihoods. It uses 19 years of monthly food prices from 20 markets and three years of nationally representative household panel surveys from Tanzania. Trigonometric specifications are introduced to measure the seasonal gap. When samples...
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With farms cultivating tens or hundreds of thousands of hectares, Ukraine is often used to demonstrate the existence of economies of scale in modern grain production. Panel data analysis for all the country's farms with more than 200 hectares in 2001-2011 suggests that higher yields and profits...
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combined effect of taxes and social spending helped substantially to reduce poverty and inequality in Poland in 2014, in line …
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The objective of the paper is (i) to help fill the gap in knowledge on the long-term economic history of Poland; (ii …) to provide a new perspective to the debate on the economic future of Poland, with a special focus on its historically … unprecedented post-transition growth experience; and (iii) to analyze critically long-term growth projections for Poland. The paper …
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2007 and Polish LFS data in order to: (a) analyze the development of the shadow employment in Poland in years 2003-2008 and … employment in Poland in years 2003-2008 was increasing until 2006 and then started to decrease in the years 2007 and 2008. Other …
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The last several years before the global downturn of 2008-2009 saw rapid credit growth in Poland. The credit … them from the negative consequences of the downturn. Some regulatory concepts that had been put into place in Poland in the …
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summarizes recent plans and developments in four countries (Poland, Hungary, Estonia, and Lithuania). The paper concludes by …
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