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Impact of Flood on Sugarcane Industry of Pakistan
Raza, Murtazain - 2013
year. The main cause of reduction in the recovery rate was the excess water due to devastating flood in the country and …
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Impact of Low-Sugar-Cane-Yield on Sugar Industry of Pakistan
Raza, Murtazain - 2013
Pakistan, till today no research institution has been established for the development of potential sugar cane yield … to the agriculture sector. Agriculture sector is the backbone of Pakistan's economy which contributes more than 22 …
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Vulnerability to natural disasters : an economic analysis of the impact of the 2009 floods on the Fijian sugar belt
Lal, Padma N. - In: Pacific economic bulletin 25 (2010) 2, pp. 62-77
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The impact of floods on firms' performance
Coelli, Federica; Manasse, Paolo - 2014
We estimate the short-run impact of a major flood that hit the region of Veneto in 2010 on firms' performance. Using … control group of companies that are not exposed to the flood. The results indicate that the value added growth of affected … firms is 6.9% higher two years after the flood. We further investigate the role of aid transfers in the aftermath of the …
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Does Sugarcane Field Expansion Increase Sugar Production?
Muhaimin, Wahib - 2017
Indonesia has been heading on lack of sugar in the country since 1967 thus it has been importing sugar for long periods and the import increases year by year. One of the suspected reason is, the availability of sugarcane field didn't support sugar production as sugarcane is one of the inputs for...
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Access to Credit and the Size of the Formal Sector in Brazil
D'Erasmo, Pablo - 2013
This paper studies the link between credit conditions and formalization in Brazil, as both credit and the rate of formalization have notably increased in the last decade. A firm dynamics model with endogenous formal and informal sectors is developed to quantitatively evaluate how much of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328164
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Misallocation, Informality, and Human Capital : Understanding the Role of Institutions
D'Erasmo, Pablo - 2014
The aim of this paper is to quantify the role of formal-sector institutions in shaping the demand for human capital and the level of informality. We propose a firm dynamics model where firms face capital market imperfections and costs of operating in the formal sector. Formal firms have a larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056102
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Misallocation, informality, and human capital: understanding the role of institutions
D'Erasmo, Pablo; Moscoso Boedo, Herman J.; Senkal, Asli - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2014
Accepted for publication, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control The aim of this paper is to quantify the role of formal-sector institutions in shaping the demand for human capital and the level of informality. We propose a firm dynamics model where firms face capital market imperfections and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010755869
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Financial Structure, Informality and Development
Boedo, Hernan J Moscoso; Pablo N D’Erasmo - University of Virginia, Department of Economics - 2009
This is a theory of total factor productivity based on measured capital market im- perfections and costs of creating and operating formal sector firms. We develop a firm dynamics model with endogenous formal and informal sectors where firms face a technol- ogy adoption opportunity. The model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472266
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Access to Credit and the Size of the Formal Sector in Brazil
Pablo D`Erasmo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
This paper studies the link between credit conditions and formalization in Brazil, as both credit and the rate of formalization have notably increased in the last decade. A firm dynamics model with endogenous formal and informal sectors is developed to quantitatively evaluate how much of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010662976