Speech of Prof. K. Anbazhagan, Minister for Finance, Government of Tamil Nadu, presenting the Budget for 2008-2009 to …

these firms wanted from the government was help in documenting their exports. The primary reasons firms did not seek … government assistance were a lack of knowledge of the service and the service is not useful. The most often used non-government …

subnational government. The information vacuum that confounds any attempt to tax agriculture is least formidable at local level …More effective taxation of agriculture is central to the development issue. An OLS cross-country regression across … developing countries shows that every one percent increase in the share of agriculture in value addition lowers the tax/GDP ratio …

Among the major challenges currently faced by humanity are food security and climate change. Agriculture plays a … significant role in both. Adapting to climate change is expected to be an increasing issue for agriculture and food security in … the next decades. At the same time, agriculture is part of the solution in mitigating climate change: by both reducing and …

-oriented regime. Government has abandoned price policies and subsidies, focusing rather on standard-setting, quality regulation, and …

This book is a study of the ways in which U.S. agriculture policies contribute to or help to ameliorate the adverse …

This volume brings togetheressays that critique recent U.S. agriculture policy and propose alternatives to the current …