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Protecting the entitlements of some inherently requires preventing others from claiming and controlling those same resources. Yet much recent research regarding property rights and economic development treats the level of property rights security in a country as homogeneous. This one-dimensional...
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Using a new set of indicators that measure the Property Insecurity of ethnopolitical minority groups, I find that Property Insecurity is not correlated with the Risk of Expropriation facing foreign investors and domestic elites – revealing that the aggregate measures of 'institutional quality'...
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While the majority of micro studies finds that rural education increases agricultural productivity, various recent cross-country regressions analyzing the determinants of agricultural productivity were only able to detect an insignificant or even surprisingly negative effect of schooling. In...
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While the majority of micro studies finds that rural education increases agricultural productivity, various recent cross-country regressions analysing the determinants of agricultural productivity were only able to detect insignificant or even surprising negative effects of schooling. In this...
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FDI in agriculture in developing countries is very small. It is not among priorities of most developing countries as … purpose contracts with local farmers or buy inputs through spot market transactions. Therefore TNCs affect agriculture of most … agriculture, some countries such as China and Viet Nam attracted considerable FDI into their agriculture …
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Transforming agriculture from a largely subsistence enterprise to a profitable commercial venture is both a …
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Extension of factual and analytical work to policy issues has been a feature of agricultural economics from its beginnings, but only in recent decades have these efforts become part of the scientific core of what agricultural economists do. At the same time, the range of policy analysis has...
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economic activities in the area are agriculture, livestock and industrial salt production. All the cultivated land is reserved … lands, insufficient water resources for the agriculture with the impact of the SL, Being one of the Turkey's low rainfall … the agriculture in the region. Depending on the threat of drought, significant productivity and quality issues are being …
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In this paper, we investigate whether and how households adjust their agricultural practices such as cultivation and livestock to adapt to a severe typhoon.We, therefore, make use of a natural experiment coming from the strong typhoon Ketsana in 2009. We apply the difference-in-differences...
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identification of land use, land use change and land management scenarios, whereby enhancing carbon sequestration synergistically … through crop yields, implicit in each land use change and land management scenario. The scenarios aim at providing quot … carbon sequestration can be obtained through modeling; and that alternative best soil organic matter management practices …
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