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for the low level of credit flow to agriculture in North-western Kazakhstan. A quadratic programming model was used in … there may be a role for the government in reducing risk exposition of agriculture in its current form, natural and economic … constraints suggest to pave the way for structural reforms that reduce the importance of agriculture in the rural economy. …
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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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Economic reform in China helped transform the structure and volume of agricultural production and resulted in … productivity (TFP) in China by allowing producers operating under their own technologies. A metafrontier function approach is … enhancing agricultural TE and TFP growth in China. Our major findings indicate that TC was mostly attributed to Chinese …
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mit Nahrungsmitteln in China nach - von der Produktion über den Konsum bis hin zur Entsorgung. Dabei stehen vor allem Food … nichtstaatlicher Akteure rund um Nahrungsmittel- und Versorgungssicherheit in China bilden einen weiteren Schwerpunkt der vorliegenden …Pollution, urbanization as well as the continuous growth of the population challenge China's food policy of the 21st …
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Agriculture is one of the major greenhouse gas (GHG) emission sources in China. This paper aims to identify the key … factors that have led to rising GHG emissions in China's agricultural sector in recent decades. This research allows for … spatial dependence across provinces, making use of regional data from 31 provinces in mainland China. It investigates the …
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In the face of seasonal climate variability, the smallholder farmers, particularly those in rural communities, are among the most adversely affected. As a way to address this, together with concern on low productivity, the Philippine government has been implementing a range of risk management...
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Crop insurance is a risk management tool designed to even out agricultural risks and address the consequences of natural disasters to make losses more bearable, especially to the marginalized farmers. In the Philippines, the Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation (PCIC) implements and manages the...
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This review examines portions of the vast literature on rural financial markets and household behavior in the face of risk and uncertainty. We place particular emphasis on studying the important role of financial intermediaries, competition and regulation in shaping the changing structure and...
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We study an overlapping generations model of human capital accumulation with threshold effects using regional data for West Germany. Our basic goal is to shed light on the growth of West German regions. The paper finds that the relative income distribution appears to be stratifying into a...
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This paper explores the relationship between income inequality and growth using panel data on Swedish counties from 1960-2000. Compared to standard methods of estimating this relationship yearly regional level data are used, and inequality is allowed to be endogenous. We find a significant...
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