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Self-selection into credit markets: Evidence from agriculture in Mali
Beaman, Lori; Karlan, Dean; Thuysbaert, Bram; Udry, … - 2014
We partnered with a micro-lender in Mali to randomize credit offers at the village level. Then, in no-loan control villages, we gave cash grants to randomly selected households. These grants led to higher agricultural investments and profits, thus showing that liquidity constraints bind with...
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Scenarios for the agricultural sector in South and East Mediterranean countries by 2030
Belghazi, Saad - 2012
scenarios based on the main value chains of the agriculture sector of Med 11: animal products, fruits and vegetables, sugar and …
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Wealth distribution, peasant production and poverty traps in African smallholder agriculture
Hoogeveen, J. G. M. - 1999
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The impact of commercialization of rice on household welfare in rural Viet Nam
Cazzuffi, Chiara; McKay, Andrew D.; Perge, Emilie - 2018
The past 30 years have seen a consistent increase in agricultural commercialization in rural Viet Nam, at the same time when rural residents have moved increasingly into non-agricultural activities. The contribution of the latter to welfare improvement and poverty reduction is well known; in...
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Spatial developments of Hungarian agriculture in the transition: the case of crop production
Fertő, Imre - 2007
The paper investigates spatial changes in cultivation and land use of wheat, maize and oilseed in Hungarian agriculture … ungarischen Landwirtschaft, wobei verschiedene Methoden für die Messung dieser Veränderungen genutzt werden. Die Ergebnisse zeigen … Unterstützung der Landwirtschaft und räumlicher Konzentration gefunden (gemessen durch den PSE Index), aber die Berechnungen zeigen …
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Taxing Means of Agricultural Production in Germany: A Relatively High Tax Burden Compared to Other Important EU Competitors
Parsche, Rüdiger; Radulescu, Doina Maria - In: CESifo DICE Report 02 (2004) 2, pp. 48-54
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Typhoon and Agricultural Production Portfolio -Empirical Evidence for a Developing Economy
Tran, Thi Xuyen - 2021
In this paper, we investigate whether and how households adjust their agricultural practices such as cultivation and livestock to adapt to a severe typhoon. We, therefore, make use of a natural experiment coming from the strong typhoon Ketsana in 2009. We apply the difference-in-differences...
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Essays on development economics: Information technology, human capital, and conflict
Kaila, Heidi - 2017
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Agricultural decisions after relaxing credit and risk constraints
Karlan, Dean; Osei-Akoto, Isaac; Osei, Robert Darko; … - 2012
leads to significantly larger agricultural investment and riskier production choices in agriculture. The salient constraint …
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Cotton made in Africa: A case study of sustainable production through responsible consumption
Peltzer, Roger; Brüntrup, Michael - 2023
-private partnerships of German Development Cooperation with private foundations and private companies around an agriculture-based supply … crop, the revenues it generates can boost food security among smallholders via the income channel and can also promote … assessment is needed and this must be adapted to the especially complex conditions of African smallholder agriculture. …
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