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Is the bloom off the rose for Eighth District farmers?

Kliesen, Kevin L. - In: The Regional Economist (1999) Apr, pp. 12-13

After prospering at record rates in 1996 and '97, farmers experienced a sobering setback last year. Will the future on the farm be grim or grand?

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Abatement of agricultural pollution and economic incentives: The case of intensive livestock farming in France

Vermersch, D.; Bonnieux, F.; Rainelli, P. - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 3 (1993) 3, pp. 285-296

Amongst possible economic incentives to encourage reduced nitrate contamination of water, this paper emphasizes a nitrogen tax as a possible solution. This finding is based on models estimated from panel data for 100 intensive livestock farms. For each farm a threshold is established (nitrogen...

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Policy Instruments for Groundwater Management in the Netherlands

Hellegers, Petra; Ierland, Ekko van - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 26 (2003) 1, pp. 163-172

In the Netherlands agriculture andnature have conflicting interests with respectto groundwater management. Insight into …

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Dietary Intake and Food Security Among Migrant Farm Workers in Pennsylvania

Cason, Katherine; Nieto-Montenegro, Sergio; … - Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago - 2004

Agriculture is Pennsylvania's single largest industry and migrant farm workers constitute a significant portion its …

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The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: 2003/04 Annual Progress Report

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006

This paper examines the Annual Progress Report on the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopiaâ€™s Poverty Reduction Strategy. The broad thrust of the governmentâ€™s strategy remains creating rural growth, accelerating private sector growth in the modern economy to create employment and...

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The Role of Agriculture in Aggregate Business Cycle Fluctuations

Rocha, Jose Maria Da; Restuccia, Diego - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2002

though the agricultural sector represents less than 2% of the U.S. economy, we show that agriculture plays an essential role … in understanding aggregate business cycles. The inclusion of agriculture into standard business cycle analysis resolves … agriculture in the economy can account for the substantial differences observed in business cycle patterns across countries. This …

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Postan, Population, and Prices in Late-Medieval England and Flanders

Munro, John - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2002

This paper re-examines the classic demographic or 'real' model, essentially based on a Malthusian-Ricardian model, that the late Michael Postan (Cambridge) utilized to explain the behaviour of the later-medieval western European economy, and in particular the behaviour of price movements. In...

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Grading and quality upgrading : complements or substitutes ?

Hollander, A.; Monier-Dilhan, S.; Raynal, H. - Département d'Économie et Sociologie Rurales, … - 2001

The role of grading is to disclose the quality of individual units of output. Each firm produces high and low quality units in different proportions. Quality specification is a choice variable and, all producers have access to the same technology. The paper finds that greater access to grading,...

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Agrarpolitik Marokkos (1956-1980)-Analyse aus entwicklungspolitischer Sicht

Harabi, Najib - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1983

The major objectives of the study is first to describe and analyse agricultural policy in Morocco and second to evaluate this policiy from the perspective of development economics Die vorliegende Arbeit verfolgt zwei Hauptziele. Sie will versuchen, erstens die Grundlinien der in Marokko seit der...

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Causal Relationship Between Exports and Agricultural GDP in Pakistan

Memon, Manzoor Hussain; Baig, Waqar Saleem; Ali, Muhammad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper is an attempt to investigate the causal relationships among agriculture and exports in Pakistan by using …

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