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Has Imported Rice Crowded-out Domestic Rice Production in Ghana? What has Been the Role of Policy?
Asuming-Brempong, Samuel; Osei-Asare, Yaw Bonsu - 2008
Commercial rice imports have accounted for approximately 61%, food aid in rice accounted for about 2%, and domestic rice accounted for some 37% per annum of rice consumption in Ghana over the four years between 2000 and 2003. Compared to the 1990s, these figures show a gradual decline in the...
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2009
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Policy and Institutional effects on market participation by smallholder rice farmers: case studies in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger
Toure, Ali; Bamba, Ibrahim; Diagne, Aliou; Harouna, Kore; … - 2008
Rice sector contributes significantly to secure households with regard to their food needs but also to the creation of employments and income generation. The sector development and its evolution over the years have been marked by various policies and approaches. These development stages of the...
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Garment Industry and Economic Empowerment: A case study of Swaziland
Panin, Anthony; Mthombo, Thabile T. - 2008
policies regarding unemployment and poverty alleviation strategies. The empirical results show that the industry created …
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IMPACTS OF LARGE SCALE EXPANSION OF BIOFUELS ON GLOBAL POVERTY AND INCOME DISTRIBUTION
Cororaton, Caesar B.; Timilsina, Govinda R.; Mevel, Simon - 2010
This paper analyzes the impact of expansion in biofuels on the global economy, income distribution and poverty. It … second model uses these results recursively to calculate the impact on global income distribution and poverty.The results …. The effects of large scale expansion of biofuels on poverty vary across regions. But overall there is a slight increase in …
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The Impact of Access to Credit on the Adoption of hybrid maize in Malawi: An Empirical test of an Agricultural Household Model under credit market failure
Simtowe, F.; Zeller, Manfred - 2008
Guided by the frame work of a household model under credit market failure, this paper aims at investigating the impact of access to credit on the adoption of hybrid maize among households that vary in their credit constraints. The data used in the study is from Malawi collected by the...
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Regional Economic Implications of Water Allocation and Reliability
Harris, Simon; Doak, Murray; Ford, Stuart; Bywater, Tony; … - 2005
The understanding of how allocation decisions can maximise the economic returns to the community from water for irrigation has received little attention, but is a significant issue for regional councils, those interested in water allocation policy development, and for irrigated farmers. There is...
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The Relationship Between Wildfire and Welfare
Kaval, Pamela; Loomis, John B. - 2005
We used the well-being evaluation method, a technique for measuring individual utility, to study how people in the wildland urban interface of Colorado (USA) felt about their lives before and after two wildfire scenarios. Variables such as age, family size, fire frequency, and house value were...
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A Simulation Approach to Comparing Multiple Site Recreation Demand Models Using Chesapeake Bay Survey Data
Kling, Catherine L. - 1987
To value water quality improvements in the Chesapeake Bay or elsewhere, it is necessary to choose an appropriate model of consumer behavior. A number of different travel cost based recreation demand models have beenemployed to value changes in water quality or beach access. Among the possible...
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Modelling Waikato Farm Nitrogen Discharges for Policy Analysis
Ramilan, Thiagarajah; Scrimgeour, Frank G. - 2005
This study describes the development of bio economic models examining the economic and water quality impact of various proposed policy options in the Upper Waikato catchment. In the first phase nitrogen emissions are determined for representative farming systems using the Overseer nutrient...
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