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Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland - Umweltökonomische Gesamtrechnungen (UGR)

Deutschland / Statistisches Bundesamt

Energieflüsse, Flächennutzung, Umweltschutzmaßnahmen, Verkehr und Umwelt, Landwirtschaft und Umwelt, Waldgesamtrechnung, UGR und …

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Ein "Dritter Weg" in Chinas Dörfern? - Das "Aktien-Genossenschaftssystem" und die Transformation der ländlichen Unternehmen

Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten; Katō, Hiroyuki - 1997

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Developments in the Organization and Finance of PublicAgricultural Research in the United States, 1988-1999

Huffman, Wallace E. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2005

This paper describes major external changes to the U.S. public agricultural researchsystem over 1988-1999; describes the reactions of the public agricultural research system to theexternal changes, specifying the innovations that have occurred over the last decade; and drawsconclusions about the present...

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The Role of Agriculture and Human Capital inEconomic Growth: Farmers, Schooling, and Health

Huffman, Wallace E.; Orazem, Peter F. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2004

This survey reviews the existing literature, identifying the contribution of agriculture, schooling, and nutrition to … and service economies. The evidence is that positive technology shocks to agriculture have played a key role in igniting a … transition from traditional to modern agriculture and to long-term economic growth in almost all countries. Improvements in …

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New Econometric Evidence on Agricultural Total FactorProductivity Determinants: Impact of Funding Sources

Huffman, Wallace E.; Evenson, Robert E. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2003

This paper examines the impact of public and private agricultural research andextension on agricultural total factor productivity at the state level. We test the hypothesis thatthe composition of agricultural experiment station funding—share of funding from impact offederal competitive grants...

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Determinants of the Demand for State AgriculturalExperiment Station Resources: A Demand-SystemApproach

Huffman, Wallace E.; Evenson, Robert E. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2003

This paper presents new econometric evidence on state government’s demand for resources to support local agricultural experiment station research. The econometric model consists of a complete-demand system covering four major resource sources, and it is fitted to annual observations on 48...

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Immigration in the U.S. Midwest during the1990s: A Decade of Rapid Change

Huffman, Wallace E. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2003

This paper examines immigration trends and economic impacts of immigration on the Midwestover the 1990s, especially for rural and agricultural labor markets and places them in contextrelative to changes in California, Florida, and Texas and the whole United States. The 1990swas a period of rapid...

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A Comparison of Production Costs, Returns andProfitability of Swine Finishing Systems

Kliebenstein, James B.; Larson, Ben; Honeyman, Mark; … - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2003

Pork production has seen a period of volatility that it has not seen before. Duringthis period, there has been a rise in a number of issues. Pork producers must deal withnarrowing margins, environmental issues, animal welfare issues, integration, andslaughter capacity concerns. These issues have...

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Pluriactivity, Entrepreneurship and Socio-economic Success of Rural Households

De Silva, Ranmuthumalie; Kodithuwakku, Sarath - Manchester Business School - 2010

Pluriactivity has been identified in literature as a capital accumulation strategy. However, it has also been recognized as a survival strategy particularly in a resource constrained environment. Accordingly, it is questionable as to what extent pluriactivitity leads households to be...

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The ‘Labour Question’ in Nineteenth Century Brazil: railways, export agriculture and labour scarcity

Lamounier, Lucia - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

railways andexpansion of export agriculture. It addresses the 1850s-1880s period,decades when the `labour question' became a …

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