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quota system, thus preventing Mexico from capitalizing (and furthering) on the comparative advantage derived from its …
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municipality level in Mexico to shed light on the differentiated effects that climate change may have in rainfed and irrigated …
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This paper explains the results of a research project, concerning Mexican peasants during the last two decades. Undoubtedly, the peasant has been a sector of rural environment that deserves major attention, because it has undergone hurried and dramatic economic, political and social decline in...
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Objective this paper is to outline the recent changes in wage-labor relations in Mexican agriculture resulting from competitive entrepreneurial strategies and to emphasize their impact on the way of life of the farm workers and their families
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We examine how commodity price shocks experienced by rural producers affect the drug trade in Mexico. Our analysis … findings demonstrate that maize price changes contributed to the burgeoning drug trade in Mexico, and point to the violent …
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This paper analyzes total factor productivity growth in agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean between 1961 and 2007 employing the Malmquist Index, a non-parametric methodology that uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) methods. The results show that among developing regions, Latin...
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This paper analyzes total factor productivity growth in agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean between 1961 and 2007 employing the Malmquist Index, a non-parametric methodology that uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) methods. The results show that among developing regions, Latin...
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This study analyzes the performance of Latin America and the Caribbean's agriculture between 1980 and 2012 looking at the contribution of inputs, and total factor productivity (TFP) to growth in output per worker. A growth accounting approach that goes along the lines of neoclassical growth...
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province of China and from 372 farmers in northeastern Mexico, we investigate factors associated with risk rationed, quantity … incidence of risk rationing in farmers to be 6.5%, 14% for quantity rationed and 80% for price rationed. In Mexico, 35% of our … financial poor are more likely to be quantity rationed; in Mexico however, the level of education is found to be important in …
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This study looks at the performance of livestock production in Uruguay and Paraguay, analyzing two situations with different implications for development: the displacement of livestock by soybean production as occurred in Uruguay and in the Eastern region of Paraguay, and the expansion of the...
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