This paper investigates the effects of network based individual social capital on the access of rural households to services. In the context of development economics, an innovative data collection approach is used to determine network based social capital. The approach originates from the field...

Until 2009, Japan’s attitude towards domestic agricultural policy reforms had been one of compliance with the guidelines provided by the WTO, which requests that member countries reduce their aggregate measures of support by trimming trade-distorting (amber box) support and/or transforming...

Visual presentation for the 2012 IAAE triennal conference.

In this paper we apply a simulation model of a village economy in Guizhou province, China, to assess impacts of trade reform at the household and the village level under alternative land market regimes. Putting special emphasis on the modeling of household migration a trade reform scenario is...

This paper analyzes the consequences of enhanced biofuel production in regions and countries of the world that have announced plans to implement or expand on biofuel policies. The analysis considers not only mandatory blending targets for transportation fuels, but also voluntary ones. The chosen...

Until 2009, Japan’s attitude towards domestic agricultural policy reforms had been one of compliance with the guidelines provided by the WTO, which requests that member countries reduce their aggregate measures of support by trimming trade-distorting (amber box) support and/or transforming...