Out of the attempts made at modernising the Hungarian society and economy in the era of socialism it was only the agricultural transition and development that has brought a long, internationally recognised success. The Hungarian agricultural model has become a point of reference for numerous...

Current study analyzes the socio-economic factors that impact farmers’ willingness to grow switchgrass and miscanthus in Missouri and Iowa. The results of the current study show that current level of farmers’ willingness to grow for either crop is low. Hence, there are barriers to...

In spite of a healthy demand for a renaissance in economic policy for agricultural development, the academic supply response is found wanting. The infusion of public economics into the economics of agricultural development, which thrived during the 1970s and 1980s, has stagnated due to the lack...

The article presents some considerations about the support for agriculture in the UE-15 and Poland and the role of its macroeconomic conditions. Stimuli applied by fiscal policy are of the great importance for creating a target model for transformation. The article consists of two parts. In the...

Agriculture is a very specific sector of production and therefore requires a state intervention, which, however, has several negative effects, which tends to take action to liberalize agricultural trade. An important role in limiting intervention in the agri-food sector played by the Uruguay...

The aim of the article is a discussion of the need and the possibilities of evaluating and measuring the effectiveness of agricultural policy with a special attention given to the CAP. The issue of the value added by agricultural expenditure generated by the CAP is raised. The evolution of the...

The article concentrates on the analysis of economic mechanisms of export subsidies, which are currently used in agricultural trade. They induce numerous negative effects, leading to an ineffective allocation of resources on an international scale. The agreement reached in the recent years...

I compare the risk attitudes of a large, representative sample of farmers to representative samples of the general population and of non-farm small business owners using a robust survey measure of risk tolerance. I find no difference between farmers and the general population in average risk...

This paper assesses the cost efficiency of indicator-based targeting. Using household survey data from Malawi, we examine whether an indicator-based targeting of the poor is more target- and cost-efficient than the currently used mechanisms for targeting agricultural subsidy programs in the...

Replaced with revised version of paper 07/22/10.