We used a growth accounting method to analyze the sources of output growth in rice, wheat, corn and soybeans, the four most important crops in China's grain sector, during 1978-97.

The effect on production, trade and well-being from the granting of market access, removing export subsidies, and eliminating trade-distorting forms of direct support to farmers in WTO member countries is analysed from a world-wide general equilibrium perspective using the most recently...

Huffman, W.E., E. Ball, M. Gopinath, and A. Somwaru, "Public R&D and Infrastructure Policies: Effects on Cost of Midwestern Agriculture," in V. Eldon Ball and G. Norton, eds. Agricultural Productivity: Measurement and Sources of Growth. Kluwer Academic Press, 2002, pp. 167-184.

Affected by industrialization, aqriculture in New England adapts to economic changes. Farms have become either large commercial units or small part time farms. Distributions of farm income have changed from an inverted-J distribution to a u-shaped distribution in the past three decades. Farm...

An R&D based endogeneous growth - applied general equilibrium model is developed from an underlying analytical model which combines Romer's capital variety with Grossman and Helpman's multi-sector open economy model. The transitional dynamics of the analytical model are derived. For numerical...

The pressure on an already stressed water situation in South Africa is predicted to increase significantly under climate change, plans for large industrial expansion, observed rapid urbanization, and government programs to provide access to water to millions of previously excluded people. The...

many of the import competing sectors in Maroccan agriculture are protected while water in irrigated agriculture is priced below its marginal value product. Establishing a water market is this pre-trade reform environment can be welfare decreasing. Further, as the shadow price of water is...

We utilize a multi-sector general equilibrium model based on intertemporally optimizing agents to study issues of trade liberalization and fiscal adjustments in the context of the Turkish economy. A key feature of the model is its explicit recognition of the distortionary consequences of...