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Expenditures on agriculture have been rising over time, as expression of the state's commitment to reduce poverty …, raise rural incomes and household welfare, and promote food security. However, agriculture continues to exhibit … investment in irrigation, making it by far the largest single item for public spending on agriculture. Such investment plans …
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, progress in implementing market reform for agriculture was largely moribund until 2019, with the enactment of the Rice … support for agriculture should move away from market price support in favor of expenditure support; ii) Expenditure support …
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The current inflationary period has placed the spotlight on hunger and food insecurity, as the current Philippine Development Plan has strongly emphasized the attainment of food affordability for all Filipinos. This study offers a scenario analysis using computable general equilibrium modeling...
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); general services support; and public expenditures for agriculture. The study finds that these indicators are viable measures … played the biggest role in agricultural support. Low to negative support to agriculture up to the late 1980s was due largely … to indirect taxation of agriculture. From the 1990s onward though the protection structure swung in favor of agriculture …
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Under the World Trade Organization, the Philippines has maintained special treatment for rice, which expires on July 2017. Tariffication will involve greater competition from imports and the decline of domestic paddy prices, thereby reducing income of rice farmers. This study evaluates various...
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Modeling of crop supply frequently adopts separate treatment of area and yield variables. The advantage of this approach is that it conveniently imposes the property of land being a quasi-fixed factor, at least on the aggregate. Given an agricultural land frontier, total supply of land may be...
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not be found in agriculture, but elsewhere. Conversely, the agricultural sector does not face significant harm from a …
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, and droughts, on agriculture, food security, and the natural resources and environment in the Philippines. It aimed to … on rice production at the local level as opposed to the national level, assistance for rice farmers and the agriculture … agriculture. It may now be high time to provide concrete assistance to this sector, in particular by allocating for it defensive …
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liberalization and facilitation, services and investment liberalization, labor mobility, and agriculture. In assessing the progress …
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conditions in Philippine rural labor markets and agriculture can be characterized as casual or informal, with low skill … agricultural livelihood. Development involves the change in economic structure, anchored on productivity growth in agriculture …
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