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Agricultural impact of climate change: A general equilibrium analysis with special reference to Southeast Asia

Zhai, Fan; Zhuang, Juzhong - 2009

Capitalizing on the most recent worldwide estimates of the impacts of climate change on agricultural production, this paper assesses the economic effects of climate change for Southeast Asian countries through 2080. The results suggest that the aggregate impacts of agricultural damages caused by...

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Climate change, agriculture, and food security in Tanzania

Arndt, Channing; Farmer, Will; Strzepek, Ken; Thurlow, James - 2011

The consequences of climate change for agriculture and food security in developing countries are of serious concern. Due to their reliance on rain-fed agriculture both as a source of income and consumption, many low-income countries are generally considered to be most vulnerable to climate...

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Measuring economic growth from outer space

Henderson, Vernon; Storeygard, Adam; Weil, David N. - 2009

GDP growth is often measured poorly for countries and rarely measured at all for cities. We propose a readily available proxy: satellite data on lights at night. Our statistical framework uses light growth to supplement existing income growth measures. The framework is applied to countries with...

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Three decades of rural development projects in Asia, Latin America and Africa: Learning from successes and failures

Zoomers, Annelies - 2006

This article aims to contribute to the discussion about how to make development interventions more effective by analyzing the factors contributing to the success or failure of rural development projects. We made an aggregate level analysis of 46 projects in the field of agricultural research...

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Globalization, crop choice and property rights in rural Peru, 1994 - 2004

Field, Alfred J.; Field, Erica - 2007

This paper describes the results of initial work analysing a panel of rural households in Peru between 1994 and 2004 to determine household responses to changes in relative prices of traditional versus export-oriented products. Our principal interest was to better understand how household...

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Globalization and rural poverty

Bardhan, Pranab - 2005

In this paper we provide an analytical account of the mechanisms through which globalization, in the sense of increased foreign trade and long-term capital flows, affects the lives of the rural poor in developing countries (in their capacity as workers, consumers, recipients of public services...

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The impact of the 2008 Hadramout flash flood in Yemen on economic performance and nutrition: A simulation analysis

Breisinger, Clemens; Ecker, Olivier; Thiele, Rainer; … - 2012

among farmers in the region most severely affected by the flood. Regional spillover effects lead to temporary increases in …

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Assessing the rise of organic farming in the European Union: Environmental and socioeconomic consequences

Konstantinidis, Charalampos - 2012

farms to allow family farmers to remain in the countryside as high-value producers. I assert that this this development … experience of organic farmers in the EU as a lesson for schemes paying for environmental services, I suggest that the success of … organic farming should be evaluated by the numbers of participating farmers, rather than by area covered, as has been the …

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Enhancing agricultural productivity of CLMV countries: Challenges and agenda for reforms

Rillo, Aladdin D.; Sombilla, Mercedita A. - 2015

Responding positively to economic reforms, the economies of Cambodia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, and Viet Nam (CLMV) have shown tremendous growth since the mid-1980s, including in their respective agriculture sectors. Recent developments, however, have brought into question...

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Stimulant or depressant? Resource-related income shocks and conflict

Gehring, Kai; Langlotz, Sarah; Kienberger, Stefan - 2018

We provide new evidence about the mechanisms linking resource-related income shocks to conflict. To do so, we combine temporal variation in international drug prices with new data on spatial variation in opium suitability to examine the effect of opium profitability on conflict in Afghanistan....

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