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An analysis of the potential effectiveness of aPayment-by-Results approach to the delivery ofenvironmental public goods and servicessupplied by Agri-Environment Schemes
Schwarz, Gerald; Moxey, Andrew; McCracken, Davy; … - Universität <Berlin, Humboldt-Universität> / … - 2008
Agri-environment schemes (AES) have been an important policy tool within the EU for over 15 years and are viewed as a central element of the Rural Development Regulation (RDR) in seeking to secure certain environmental public goods. Currently, AES tend to be action-based rather than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009305165
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Land reform and agricultural productivity in India: a review of the evidence
Ghatak, Maitreesh; Roy, Sanchari - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
productivity in India. We find that, overall for all states, land-reform legislation had anegative and significant effect on … land reform had a marginal positive effect relative to the rest of India.[...] …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008860723
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Programming ruraldevelopment funds –An interactivelinear programming approachapplied to the EAFRD programin Saxony-Anhalt
Schmid, Julia; Häger, Astrid; Jechlitschka, Kurt; … - Universität <Berlin, Humboldt-Universität> / … - 2010
-Mitteln (Europäischer Landwirtschaftsfondsfür die Entwicklung ländlicher Räume) in Sachsen-Anhalt zu modellieren. Wir zeigen, wieein solcher … Landwirtschaft und Umwelt, zu unterstützen.Derzeit sind verschiedene Schlüsselelemente des Programmierungsansatzes spezifiziert … Strategieentwicklung für dieländliche Entwicklung in Sachsen-Anhalt zu unterstützen.... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009302579
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Wildlife value, trophy hunting and rural development – with illustrations from Tanzania
Bohne, Andreas - Universität <Berlin, Humboldt-Universität> / … - 2008
Since the late 1980s slogans like ‘use it or lose it’ or ‘conservation through sustainable use’ emphasized the economic use of wildlife for conservation and rural development. In addition, a stronger involvement of local communities instead of displacement and curtailing of their access...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009305163
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360875
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The Modern Development of the Finance, Tourism and Agricultural Industries in Jersey
Thomas, Brychan C. - Welsh Enterprise Institute <Pontypridd> - 2006
Agriculture due to too much concentration on one crop and competition from other areas. Also, the continued importance of the … involving Finance, Tourism and Agriculture. It has drawn primarily on archival material, existing research and secondary data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009022283
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Technology and Innovation in World Agriculture:Prospects for 2010-2019
Huffman, Wallace E. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2009
. Second, adiscussion of the organization of science and technology for agriculture is presented. Third, newagricultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360769
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IMPLEMENTING HEALTH INSURANCE FOR THE POOR: THE ROLLOUT OF RSBY IN KARNATAKA
Rajasekhar, D; Berg, Erlend; Ghatak, Maitreesh; Manjula, R - Institute for Social and Economic Change <Bangalore>; … - 2011
quality health care in India. This paper looks at the implementation of the scheme in Karnataka, drawing on a large survey of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008860712
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Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India
Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther; Ghatak, Maitreesh; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010
This paper analyzes how preferences for a non-economic characteristic, such as caste, canaffect equilibrium patterns of matching in the marriage market, and empirically evaluates thisin the context of arranged marriages among middle-class Indians. We develop a model thatdemonstrates how the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008860715
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The Unequal Effects of Liberalization: Evidence from Dismantling the License Raj in India
Aghion, Philippe; Burgess, Robin; Redding, Stephen; … - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2007
We study whether the effects on registered manufacturing output of dismantling the license raj - a system of central controls regulating entry and production activity in this sector - vary across Indian states with different labor market regulations and different nancial development. To guide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005857782