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, Uganda experienced gradual and sustained economic growth and poverty reduction. The benefits of growth, however, are not …
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This paper attempts to provide alternative estimates of income distribution in South Africa, utilizing data that allow … we then combine to arrive at estimates of overall poverty from 1970 to 2000. However, data for the last few years of this … that these estimates are worst case estimates of poverty trends after 1995. An alternative, less pessimistic estimate is …
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Among the most prominent contributions of agricultural economists to the development field is the analysis of issues in commodity marketing. The topics include the role of competition among market intermediaries in determining marketing margins, analysis of price risks and the theory of...
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This paper documents producer price setting in 6 countries of the euro area: Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium and Portugal. It collects evidence from available studies on each of those countries and also provides new evidence. These studies use monthly producer price data. The following...
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The United States Department of Agriculture has issued statistics on prices received by farmers since 1866. Beginning in 1924, prices received were collected as of the middle of the month instead of the first of the month. In this research analysis both univariate and transfer function...
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The United States leads the world in agricultural biotechnology research, adoption, commercialization, and exports. Our biotech commodities are highly dependent on international markets. Thus, any biotech policy changes by key importing countries may affect U.S. agricultural biotech product...
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among theinternal and external prices of the cotton of january of 1990 to february of 2009. Forthat, they were employees the … of the analyzed samples, indicating that variations of price of the cotton happened at a market is reviewed to the other …
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the crude oil market. In the long-run, around 2-7 percent of the variability in grains, oilseeds, and cotton prices can be …
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Traders, on the well-functioning of futures markets and underlyingcommodity markets. Cotton is a relatively under … changes in cotton economic fundamentals? (2) Have seasonaland long-run patterns of convenience yield and price volatility … suggest that traditional, well-established economicrelationships for cotton futures markets clearly have been disrupted during …
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government policies. Both export taxes and import tariffs are used as policy tools to regulate cotton markets. Domestic price … of economic inefficiency associated with government intervention in Turkish cotton markets. A two-region partial … equilibrium model of cotton exports and imports is developed under the "small country assumption" to obtain empirical estimates of …
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