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Modeling Agricultural Innovation in a Rapidly Developing Country: The Case of Chinese Pesticide Industry
Shi, Guanming; Pray, Carl - 2011
Technology and innovation play an increasingly important role in the economic development of both developed and developing countries. We investigate how policy and market factors influence firms’ (or other potential innovators’) decisions on innovation or imitation by developing a conceptual...
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Measuring the poverty impact of ACIAR projects: a broad framework
Pearce, David - 2002
This report sets out some broad ideas about how poverty evaluation could be conducted for ACIAR research projects. As with good benefit–cost analysis, there are good practices that need to be observed when undertaking poverty analysis. While poverty is a broad concept, and can be addressed...
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Cover and Contents Pages
2009
Includes cover page, journal info, contents page, and editorial information
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Policy Responses to 2008 High Food Prices: Domestic Incentives and Global Implications
Woolverton, Andrea E.; Kiawu, James - 2009
Global food commodity price inflation beginning in 2006 and continuing through mid-2008 became a priority concern for global consumers, producers and policy-makers alike. In response, many governments across the world implemented policies targeting high food commodity prices in their domestic...
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Consulting the stakeholders on pro-poor market segmentation of maize seed in Africa
de Groote, Hugo; Andam, Kwaw S.; Hall, Mike; Munyua, … - 2009
Paper accepted for presentation at the 27th Conference of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE), Beijing China, August 16-22, 2009, (Ref 690)
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A Long Memory Conditional Variance Model for International Grain Markets
Jin, Hyun Joung - 2008
The study explores a long memory conditional volatility model on international grain markets, demonstrating importance of modeling both temporal effects of volatility and long memory process. This study adopts six different volatility models, nested in an ARMA(p,q)- FIGARCH(P,D,Q), to capture...
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An Analysis of the Recent Evolution of Mali’s Maize Subsector
Diallo, Amadou Sekou - 2011
In most developing countries, historically, the main strategy for improving the food sector has focused on increasing farm-level production. But in recent years, with the emphasis on value chain analysis, there has been much more focus on subsector studies, demand-driven approaches, and...
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The Role of Market Power in Agricultural Contracts
Cordero Salas, Paula - 2009
I study the economic consequences of shifting bargaining power in relational contracts through interventions such as the formation of a Bargaining Group (BG) for the side of sellers in a market where buyers traditionally hold significant market power. Existing theories of relational contracts...
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Do Consumers Really Care about Biotech Food Label? What Do We Know? What Else Should We Know?
Chen, Xi; Zhong, Funing; Zhou, Bin - 2008
This paper is Selected for presentation at the Southern Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 31-February 3, 2009. The research is partially funded by ERS/USDA China Project and Social Science Fund of Jiangsu Province in China. The authors are grateful for...
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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
rice accounted for some 37% per annum of rice consumption in Ghana over the four years between 2000 and 2003. Compared to … imported rice and five key rice producing centres in Ghana. In addition, the various policies that affected rice during the …, suggesting that markets for imported rice in Ghana are segmented, and domestic policies have generally not favoured local rice …
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