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Determinants of transport costs : are they uniform across countries?
Schürenberg-Frosch, Hannah - 2012
only be clearly confirmed for industrial countries and is of primary importance for production and transportation of …. -- Infrastructure ; transport networks ; transport costs ; agriculture ; public investment ; development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009632196
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The volatility curse : revisiting the paradox of plenty
Ploeg, Frederick van der; Poelhekke, Steven - 2009
The volatility of unanticipated output growth in income per capita is detrimental to long-run development, controlling for initial income per capita, population growth, human capital, investment, openness and natural resource dependence. This effect is significant and robust over a wide range of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832092
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The Volatility Curse : Revisiting the Paradox of Plenty
van der Ploeg, Rick - 2013
The volatility of unanticipated output growth in income per capita is detrimental to long-run development, controlling for initial income per capita, population growth, human capital, investment, openness and natural resource dependence. This effect is significant and robust over a wide range of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753136
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Chapter 60 Past Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture
Mendelsohn, Robert - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 3: …, (pp. 3009-3031). 2007
This paper examines the likely impact on agriculture of the climate change which has already taken place between 1960 …, and carbon dioxide response functions are used to calculate the impacts on agriculture. Temperature and precipitation … overall growth of agriculture has been small, contributing between 2.6% and 5.4% of overall growth. This effect has been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024064
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Financing Institutions and the Demise of the Sudanese Agricultural Sector
Mohamed, Issam A.W. - 2012
It is not an exaggeration to surmise that agriculture as an economic activity in Sudan is facing demise. The … financing issues for the agriculture in Sudan. Empirical analysis is carried out which showed that there are problems in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108927
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The persistent effects of place-based policy : evidence from the West-German Zonenrandgebiet
Ehrlich, Maximilian von; Seidel, Tobias - 2015 - This version: May 2015
Using a natural experiment from Germany, we show that temporary place-based subsidies generate persistent effects on economic density. We identify employment and capital formation as main channels for higher income per square kilometer. As the spatial regression discontinuity design allows us to...
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Regional policy evaluation : interactive fixed effects and synthetic controls
Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry - 2013
In this paper, we investigate the use of interactive effect or linear factor models in regional policy evaluation. We contrast treatment effect estimates obtained by Bai (2009)'s least squares method with the popular difference in difference estimates as well as with estimates obtained using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771746
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Regional policy evaluation : interactive fixed effects and synthetic control
Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry - 2014
In this paper, we investigate the use of interactive effect or linear factor models in regional policy evaluation. We contrast treatment effect estimates obtained by Bai (2009)'s least squares method with the popular difference in differences estimates as well as with estimates obtained using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434019
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External impact assessment of IFPRI's 2020 vision for food, agriculture, and the environment initiative
Paarlberg, Robert L. - 1999
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