between household welfare and fertility for Indonesia - a country which has experienced unprecedented economic growth and … of fertility on household welfare at the micro level. In this paper we present an empirical analysis of the relationship …. Secondly, we explicitly test for the sensitivity of our results with respect to alternative measures of welfare at the …

, countrywide profits, and welfare. Firms face resource constraints and wages are simultaneously determined. Relative to free trade … countrywide profits benefit from small import tariffs, whereas the foreign counterpart is hit, but when sectors share the same … technology. Domestic welfare is unambiguously penalized. Hence, the general-equilibrium cross-sector perspective goes against the …

figures, primarily by developing country traders. This is due to the inflexible exchange rate regimes, severe import … restrictions and export subsidies prevailing in LDCs. In this paper we focus on the import under-invoicing due to high tariff … under-invoicing. We also look at the optimal levels of import tariff and instruments of government intervention in these …

. How would an increase in FDI and a reduction in import tariff levels in isolation affect household welfare and other … increase in FDI inflow and reduce tariff levels are complementary policies that enhance household welfare. It also emphasizes … that the two policies will have different impact on macroeconomic indicators, inter alia exchange rate, export, import and …

price changes of 2008. In this analysis the volatility of the maize futures price at three different commodity futures …

The objective of this paper is to investigate factors influencing the adoption of improved maize seed by smallholder … influencing adoption of improved maize seed were identified. The results of this analysis indicate that fifteen out of twenty five … factors are significantly found to be the determining factors influencing the probability of adopting improved maize seed. To …

This analysis employs cointegration methods and semiparametric regression in order to assess the integration of maize … rich dataset of 16 series of wholesale maize prices between 2000 and 2008 for Kenya, Tanzanian and Uganda. Distance is …

may bear little relationship with market prices. We econometrically estimate shadow prices of maize using data from a … traditional but not improved maize varieties. They are particularly high in the indigenous areas of southern and southeastern … Mexico, indicating large de facto incentives to maintain traditional maize there. …

transaction costs are not binding. I estimate the proportion of land subsistence maize farmers allocate to traditional versus … modern maize varieties using nationally representative rural household data from Mexico the center of diversity of maize. I …