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Impact of terrorism on investment decisions of farmers: evidence from the Punjab insurgency

Singh, Prakarsh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper provides evidence for a particular channel through which sustained terrorism in rural areas may affect growth in developing countries. Using micro-level data from agricultural surveys during the period of insurgency in Punjab (India), I find significant negative effects of terrorism...

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Look who's talking: the impacts of the intrahousehold allocation of mobile phones on agricultural prices

Lee, Kyeong Ho; Bellemare, Marc F. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Using data from the Philippines, we study the impact of mobile phones on the prices agricultural producers receive for their cash crop. We first look at the impact on price of mobile phone ownership at the household level. Because this masks a considerable amount of heterogeneity, we then look...

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Production Efficiency and Agricultural Technologies in the Ethiopian Agriculture

Mariam, Yohannes; Coffin, Garth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993

Stochastic frontier production function analysis was performed to examine relative crop and milk production efficiency among peasants in Ada and Selale districts of the Central highlands of Ethiopia. The results indicate that Ada farmers exhibit relatively higher efficiency scores in cereal...

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March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear accident impacts on Japanese agri-food sector

Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

Fukushima nuclear disaster on the Japanese agriculture and food sector. It contains fourteen parts: introduction with the …

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Agricultural Risk Managment: Economic Incidence and Mitigation Innovations. The Case of Argentina.

Miguel, Fusco; Dario, Bacchini; Esteban Otto, Thomasz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The aim of this paper is to summarise a variety of dimensions of agricultural risk in Argentina and to propose … different lines of research related to an integrated risk management framework at the macro and micro levels. First, we analyse … some financial innovations that reduce climate and price risk exposure, such as weather derivatives and index …

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Competitiveness of Bulgarian Farms in Conditions of EU CAP Implementation

Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper suggests a holistic framework for assessing farm competitiveness, and analyses competitiveness of different type of Bulgarian farms during EU CAP implementation. First, it presents a new approach for assessing farm competitiveness defining farm competitiveness and its three criteria...

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Effects of EU CAP implementation on Bulgarian farms

Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper assesses impacts of EU CAP implementation on Bulgarian farms of different type and specialization. First, a framework for assessing the CAP effects on farms is presented. Next, an evaluation is made of the impacts of CAP on: economic results and income of farms; production and...

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Истражување за подобрување на ефикасноста и ефективноста во распределбата на средствата од ИПАРД програмата

Kovachev, Goran - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This policy document analyzes the effectiveness and efficiency in allocation and use of funds from the Fifth component of the Instrument for Pre-Accession of the European Union for rural development - IPARD in Macedonia. The findings and recommendations are based on previous observations of the...

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Gross Capital Formation and GDP growth in Indian Agriculture Sector

marimuthu, sivakumar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Nevertheless the share of agriculture sector in the GDP has declined in the recent past; agriculture is the backbone … and engine of the Indian economy. Agriculture continues play a vital role in the development of India. More than 60 per … cent of the people, especially rural Indians, still depends agriculture sector for their subsistence and most of the …

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Determinants of capital structure in Irish SMEs

Mac an Bhaird, Ciaran; Lucey, Brian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper presents an empirical examination of firm characteristic determinants of the capital structure of a sample of 299 Irish small and medium sized firms (SMEs). Hypotheses formulated from pecking order and agency theories incorporating a financial growth life cycle approach are tested on...

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