Auf dem so genannten Krisengipfel der Staats- und Regierungschefs der EU-Mitgliedsländer im Sommer dieses Jahres kam starke Kritik vor allem vom britischen Premier Tony Blair an den "hohen Agrarsubventionen" auf. Auch wenn die Frage des EU-Agrarhaushaltes mittlerweile wieder in den Hintergrund...

This paper presents an analysis on economy-environmental interlinkages for Tanzania by using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model based on a social accounting matrix. The purpose of the analysis is to include general equilibrium effects when evaluating two suggested policy measures meant...

Most of the empirical literature in this area tends to analyze labor allocation decisions of economic agents using cross-sectional data. But such methods implicitly assume that model parameters are stable (constant) across firms and over time. The use of cross-sectional methods is therefore...

This paper assesses the cost-effectiveness of indicator-based targeting. Using household survey data from Malawi, we examine whether an indicator-based system is more target and cost-efficient in reaching the poor than universal systems and the currently used mechanisms for targeting...

In this paper I examine if China's grain subsidy program keeps farmers from engaging in migratory work using self-collected panel rural household survey data from Zhijiang, Hubei province. Making use of Zhijiang's unique geographical features, I construct a treatment and a control group and use...

Am 15. Dezember 1993 ist die absolute "Deadline" für die schon zweimal verlängerte Uruguay-Runde. Im Agrarsektor ist das sog. Blair-House-Abkommen, das eigentlich den Ausweg aus den festgefahrenen GATT-Verhandlungen weisen sollte, weiter heftig umstritten. Das kategorische Nein der USA zu...

It is puzzling how much the discourse of development has backed away from the seemingly central question of rural poverty: land. Elaborate rules concerning its distribution, rights, regulation, protection, utilities have multiple development objectives, but poverty alleviation, individual...

The paper analyses the nature and effects of agrarian reform in Uzbekistan. Since becoming independent in late 1991, Uzbekistan has followed a gradual reform path, often invoking the Chinese model. Agrarian reform has resembled China's post-1978 household responsibility system, but has failed to...

Проведенная в Молдове аграрная реформа, как и во всех пост советских государствах, предусматривало передачу земли и имущества коллективных хозяйств в частное...