This paper analyses the impact of the global economic and financial crisis on Uganda notably on macro-economic aggregates, sectoral output and household welfare, and the potential role of fiscal policy and reform in mitigating the impacts. We find that second round effects from a reduction in...

This paper investigates the role of infrastructure capital in China’s regional economic development during 1990 to 2009 in a neoclassical economic growth model. Four types of infrastructure capital are discussed; electricity, road, rail, and land-line telephone. The results support a positive...

Uganda has had formal trade ties with Europe since 1973 when, together with several other commonwealth countries, it signed the Lomé Convention. However, trade relations between Europe and Africa started much earlier, in 1957, at first covering 18 francophone countries and six European...

La adecuada produccion de los bienes publicos por parte de los sistemas agrarios es una prioridad cada vez mas presente en el diseno e implementacion de la politica agraria. Para conseguir este objetivo es nevesario conocer mas en profundidad dicha produccion en los diferntes sistemas agrarios....

En este estudio se analiza el traje legal de los Consejos Reguladores de las Denominaciones de origen y otros sistemas de calidad agroalimentaria en Espana en la legislacion estatal y autonomica. El previsible eclipse progresivo o paralizacion del modelo mayoritario, estructurado en torno a una...

This paper investigates the effects of network based individual social capital on the access of rural households to services. In the context of development economics, an innovative data collection approach is used to determine network based social capital. The approach originates from the field...

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Xi Chen acknowledges generous Doctoral Research Grant from the Institute for the Social Sciences at Cornell University and precious data set provided by the Development Strategy and Governance Division at IFPRI. Conference Travel Grant provided by the Department of Applied Economics and...