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Objectives: To find out the growth, as well as instability in area, production and productivity of sugarcane farming and to assess the resource use efficiency in major sugarcane growing states of India and trade performance of sugar.Methods/Statistical analysis: Investigation is based on...
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This paper applies the framework for pro-poor analysis to welfare changes from a CGE-microsimulation model to analyze what are the better or worse models for agriculture modernization, and to estimate the contribution of growth and redistribution to changes in poverty in DRC. The findings...
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The main goal of the present work is to reveal the advantages of introducing the so called structural coefficient (SC) into economic analysis. SC is defined as an indicator of the similarity between a given sectoral structure and another, which is admitted as a referential. Consequently, the...
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This paper examines the effect of agricultural development on a country's overall development and growth experience. In most poor countries, large fractions of land, labor, and other productive resources are devoted to producing food for subsistence needs. This 'food problem' can delay a...
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This study investigates the links existing between inflationary trend, agricultural productivity and economic growth in Nigeria using time series data spanning from 1970 to 2011. The results of the analyses indicate a unidirectional causality from inflationary trend to agricultural productivity,...
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Purpose of this paper:To analyze the impact of agricultural sector on the economy of North Cyprus, which suffers from political problems and drought over the years,Design/methodology/approach:Annual data covering 1975-2002 period has been used to find the direction of causality in Granger sense...
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In this paper, we set out to establish if there is a link between finance and economic growth in rural areas. In particular, we evaluate the relation between credit by major lenders in rural areas - commercial banks and Farm Credit System institutions - and economic growth for the period...
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The role of agricultural development for industrialization is central both to several theories of economic development and policy. However, empirically assessing the impact of agricultural growth on manufacturing growth is challenging because of endogeneity concerns. To address the...
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How can foreign aid to agriculture support economic growth in Africa? This paper constructs a geographically-indexed applied general equilibrium model that considers pathways through which aid might affect growth and structural transformation of labor markets in the context of soil nutrient...
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