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Over the period of 2011-2012 the scope of economic activities in many Member States decreased. As a result of that the demand for food declined. The situation on labour market deteriorated - unemployment increased and employment went down. The rate of household income growth diminished. An...
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The paper deals with the dependence of the share of households’ food expenditure on the total expenditure and the … household’s size. This problem is important in applied welfare economics. According to the Engel’s law, the poorer household … was applied to Polish households microeconomic data from 2000, 2005 and 2009. …
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The decoupling of direct payments, caused by the introduction of the Single Payment Scheme (SPS), has generated an … Positive Mathematical Programming (PMP) models. The analysis has shown that the decoupling of direct payments generates a not …
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Paper for presentation at the Northeastern Agricultural & Resource Economics Association’s Workshop on Economics and Child Nutrition Programs, AAEA & NAREA Joint Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 23, 2011.
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This paper is based on an ongoing joint work with David Sahn and Xiaobo Zhang.
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This paper assessed the effects of transactions costs—relative to price and non-price factors—on smallholder marketed surplus and input use in Kenya. A selectivity model was used that accounts not only for the effects of fixed and variable transactions costs but also for the role of assets,...
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We study the difference in the volatility dynamics of CBOT corn, soybeans, and oatsfutures prices across different delivery horizons via the smoothed Bayesian estimatorof Karali, Dorfman, and Thurman (2010). We show that the futures price volatilitiesin these markets are affected by the...
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Crop income is the predominant source of income for most rural Mozambican households, accounting for 73% of rural … household income on average in 2002, and greater than 80% of the total income of the poorest 40% of rural households. While the …
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