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Gender, assets, and agricultural development : lessons from eight projects

Johnson, Nancy; Kovarik, Chiara; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth; … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 83 (2016), pp. 295-311

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Spatially-aggregated temperature derivatives : agricultural risk management in China

Zong, Lu; Ender, Manuela - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 4 (2016) 3, pp. 1-17

In this paper, a new form of weather derivative contract, namely the climatic zone-based growth degree-day (GDD) contract, is introduced. The objective is to increase the risk management efficiency in the agricultural sector of China and to reduce the model dimension of multi-regional...

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Investigating the gender gap in agricultural productivity : evidence from Uganda

Ali, Daniel Ayalew; Bowen, Derick; Deininger, Klaus W.; … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 87 (2016), pp. 152-170

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The effect of occupational visas on native employment : evidence from labor supply to farm jobs in the Great Recession

Clemens, Michael A. - 2017

The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation – which is rarely directly measured – even if native and foreign labor are perfect substitutes in production. This paper uses two natural quasi-experiments to directly...

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Understanding the 4PL approach within an agricultural supply chain using matrix model and cross-case analysis

Mehmann, Jens; Teuteberg, Frank - In: International journal of logistics : research and … 19 (2016) 5, pp. 333-350

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Long-run structural and productivity change in U.S. agriculture : effects of prices and policies

Evenson, Robert E.; Huffman, Wallace B. - 1997

Long-Run Structural and Productivity Change in U.S. Agriculture: Effects of Prices and Policies by Wallace E. Huffman … U.S. agriculture. Farm size, farm specialization, and part-time farming are the structural dimension emphasized, and …

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The role of agriculture for economic development and gender in Iraq : a computable general equilibrium model approach

Al-Haboby, Azhr; Breisinger, Clemens; Debowicz, Dario; … - In: The journal of developing areas 50 (2016) 2, pp. 431-451

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VAT and agriculture : lessons from Europe

Cnossen, Sijbren - 2017

Farmers are often exempted from VAT for administrative and political reasons. But this means that the VAT on their inputs cannot be "washed out" through the tax deduction/credit mechanism. To compensate farmers for the uncompensated VAT on inputs, the EU has devised a flat-rate scheme that...

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Temporary work visas as US-Haiti development cooperation : a preliminary impact evaluation

Clemens, Michael A.; Postel, Hannah - 2017

We report a small-sample, preliminary evaluation of the economic impact of temporary overseas work by Haitian agricultural workers. This work occurs in the United States in the context of a pilot program designed as a form of post-disaster development assistance to Haiti. We find that the...

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A post-separation social accounting matrix for the Sudan

Siddig, Khalid Hassan Ali; Elagra, Samir; Grethe, Harald; … - 2016

The 2012 SAM for the Sudan, with a special focus on agriculture, water and energy, is built using data from domestic … sources in the Sudan including the Central Bureau of Statistics, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Finance and … government finances, FAO reports and data on agriculture and ILO reports on labor. The SAM distinguishes between agricultural …

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