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Johnsson, Richard - Ratioinstitutet - 2004

In this paper it is argued that the domestic division of labor and trade is organized according to the same principle as the international division of labor and trade – the Ricardian comparative advantages. After all, the ultimate source of these comparative advantages is the individual. The...

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The Role of Social Capital and NGOs in Community Based Management of Open Water Inland Fisheries of Bangladesh

Ahmad, Alia - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2003

The aim of the paper is two-fold. It presents an integrated conceptual framework based on the literature on common-pool resource institutions, social capital and NGOs, and secondly, it applies the framework to the case of Bangladesh fisheries sector. Current theoretical and empirical research on...

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Rural Poverty and Agricultural Diversification in Thailand

Ahmad, Alia; Isvilanonda, Somporn - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2003

disparity in agricultural development because of the inability of farmers in certain regions to diversify towards more …

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The Great Irish Famine : Winners and Losers.

O Grada, C - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 1997

The Great Irish Famine was truly a 'great' famine; it killed one million of 8.5 million people. Though Amartya Sen's surmise that no famine in history killed such a high proportion of the people is an exaggeration, certainly nothing remotely like the Irish famine had happened in England since...

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The Effects of Agricultural Extension on Farm Yields in Kenya.

Evenson, R.E.; Mwabu, G. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1998

The paper examines effects of agricultural extension on crop yields in Kenya controlling for other determinants of yields, notably the schooling of farmers and agro-ecological characteristics of arable land. The data we use were collected by the Government of Kenya in 1982 and 1990, but the...

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Skills, Partnerships and Tenancy in Sri Lankan Rice Farms.

DeSilva, S. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2000

This paper examines whether sharecroppers and fixed-rent tenants in the rice farms of South Asia are distinguished by their farming skills. The idea that fixed-rent contracts are typically given to relatively skilled tenants dates back to the agricultural (tenancy) ladder hypothesis of Spillman...

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Uncertainty, Climate Change and the Global Economy

von Below, David; Persson, Torsten - Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), … - 2008

The paper illustrates how one may assess our comprehensive uncertainty about the various relations in the entire chain from human activity to climate change. Using a modified version of the RICE model of the global economy and climate, we perform Monte Carlo simulations, where full sets of...

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UNDERNUTRITION OVERESTIMATED

Svedberg, Peter - Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), … - 2001

There is only one set of estimates of the prevalence of chronic undernutrition world-wide. These estimates emanate from the FAO and are claimed to be comparable across countries. In this paper it is demonstrated that the FAO has used an estimation model (and data) that induce bias in the...

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The Real Real Price of Nonrenewable Resources: Copper 1870-2000

Svedberg, Peter; Tilton, John - Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), … - 2003

Over the past 40 years economists have devoted considerable effort to estimating long-run trends in real commodity prices. The results indicate that the real prices for many commodities have fallen, suggesting to the surprise of many that resource scarcity is declining over time. Almost all of...

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Cambodia: The Challenge of Productive Employment Creation

Chan, Sophal; Godfrey, Martin; Kato, Toshiyasu; Long, … - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 1998

parenthesis. A more fundamental development challenge facing the country is the very rapid increase in the labour force as the … large cohorts born in the early 1980s enter the labour market. A major weakness in the economic development to date has been … will require a much more dynamic development of agriculture and of the rural economy as a whole to succeed. Access to …

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