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The effects of 1996 farm legislation on feed and food grains.

Smith, V.H.; Glauber, J.W. - 1998

The 1996 Federal Agricultural Improvement and Reform (FAIR) Act of 1996 has been portrayed as a radical departure from the farm policies of the past 60 years. FAIR brought sweeping institutional changes to the basic price and income support programs, many of which had been in place since the...

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Supply Response to Countercyclical Payments and Base Acre Updating under Uncertainty: An Experimental Study.

McIntosh, Christopher R.; Shogren, Jason F.; Dohlman, Erik - 2007

We design an experiment to simulate how people make agricultural production decisions under three policy scenarios, each incorporating direct payments (DPs): (a) price uncertainty without countercyclical payments (CCPs); (b) price uncertainty with CCPs; and (c) price uncertainty, CCPs, and...

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Agricultural Policy Reform and its Impact on Farm Household Income Inequality.

Mishra, Ashok; El-Osta, Hisham; Shaik, Saleem - 2010

In the United States the 1996 agricultural policy reform ushered in market-oriented farm policies and also gave farmers a seven-year lump-sum payment that was not tied to production. Some scholars argue that farm program payments have changed the distribution of income among farm households. Our...

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Reform der gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik und EU-Integration Polens

Herok, Claudia A. - 2000

Vor dem Hintergrund der Integration Polens in die Europäische Union (EU) werden in der vorliegenden Arbeit die Auswirkungen verschiedener agrarpolitischer Optionen untersucht. Als mögliche Varianten wurden dabei die Agenda 2000 sowie eine vollständige Liberalisierung der Gemeinsamen...

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MANUFACTURING SECTOR PRODUCTIVITY IN INDIA: ALL INDIA TRENDS, REGIONAL PATTERNS, AND NETWORK EXTERNALITIES FROM INFRASTRUCTURE ON REGIONAL GROWTH

Mohommad, Adil - 2010

In this dissertation I examine sources of growth in the formal manufacturing sector in India, from 1970 to 2003. I … consider both all-India trends and state-level trends in the growth of resource efficiency, measured by TFP, and the relative …. Finally, in a spatial econometric framework, I test for the presence and magnitude of network spillovers from infrastructure …

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Determinants of economic well-being among U.S. farm operator households.

El-Osta, Hisham S.; Mishra, Ashok K.; Morehart, Mitchell J. - 2007

Participation in government programs has a mild impact on the economic well-being of U.S. farm households. Major factors that determine farm household prosperity are the primary operator's education level and ethnicity, education level of the spouse, and other characteristics such as forward...

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MARKET IMPERFECTIONS AND CLASS STRUCTURE: THE CASE OF SOUTH AFRICA

Lovo, Stefania - 2008

Land and market imperfections shape the organization of agricultural production and lead to differentproduction regimes within rural farm households in South Africa. This paper presents a theoretical modelto explain the presence of three main households groups (classes) determined on the basis...

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An Analysis of the Recent Evolution of Mali’s Maize Subsector

Diallo, Amadou Sekou - 2011

In most developing countries, historically, the main strategy for improving the food sector has focused on increasing farm-level production. But in recent years, with the emphasis on value chain analysis, there has been much more focus on subsector studies, demand-driven approaches, and...

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Benevolent benefactor or insensitive regulator? Tracing the role of government policies in the development of India's automobile industry

East-West Center, Honolulu - Technische Universität Harburg / …

The impressive and sustained growth of India's automobile industry in recent years has catapulted it into the league of … might have been subdued, if the Government of India had not played a pivotal role in the industry's evolution. This apparent …

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Excellent target : Indian investment in Germany recent developments and success factors

Tiwari, Rajnish; Herstatt, Cornelius - 2010

Indian firms lead the pack of emerging market investors in Germany, with about 188 subsidiaries providing employment to close to 23,500 people. This article provides an update on trends in Indian investment in Germany and examines the performance of Indian subsidiaries.

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