The Common Agncultural Policy (CAP) of the European Commumty (EC) has contributed considerably to turbulence in agriculture. In this paper, a model of the determinants of EC price policies is developed and tested empmcally. The results show that the annual decisions on agncultural pnces m the EC...

International pollution poses special problems for economic analysis. National governments can, in principle, be successful in improving environmental quality when the sources of pollution are located within the government's jurisdiction. This is not possible, however, when pollution originates...

International strategic agricultural trade policy interdependence is modelled using a game theoretical framework. The model distinguishes between the European Community, the United States and a politically passive rest-of-the-world. Particular emphasis is placed on the effect of the exchange...

This study focuses on estimating determinants of wages across primary, secondary and tertiary sectors in rural India by the type of work contract involved. Casual labourers, with short term work contracts and nearly absent benefits and wage employees, with long term work contracts, higher wages...

The long term trend of declining agricultural commodity prices has come to an end. Since the turn of the millennium prices have gone up as global demand growth has outstripped the growth in supply. As a consequence hunger around the globe is growing as the expansion of the agricultural acreage...

Conservation auctions such as the Conservation Reserve Program in the United States and the BushTender Program in Australia have been used to identify landholders who can provide on-farm conservation and biodiversity protection actions at lowest cost. These conservation auctions are typically...

A three period overlapping generations model is developed to investigate the impact of shorter life expectancy due to disease, on human capital investment decisions and income growth. This research is particularly relevant to Sub-Saharan Africa given the dramatic reduction in life expectancy due...