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agrarian and agriculture and the exploitation of natural resources remain the driving force for the country's economic … study reaffirms that agriculture in Cameroon is often limited by seasonality and the availability of moisture. Although … other physical factors, such as soil and relief, have an important influence on agriculture, climate remains the dominant …
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Policies to tax farmers in low-income countries and policies to subsidize them in high-income countries have been … identified as a major source of the disequilibrium of world agriculture. Recently, as many high-performing economies in Asia … advantage from agriculture to manufacturing. In order to prevent this disparity from culminating in serious social and political …
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This paper uses the Ricardian approach to examine how farmers in 11 countries in Africa have adapted to existing … adaptation might occur. This study differs from earlier ones by using farmers' own perceptions of the value of their land …. Previous research, by contrast, has relied on either observed sale prices or net revenues, sometimes aggregated over …
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functions. The model is estimated across over 2,000 farmers in seven Latin America countries. The results quantify how farmers …
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An important class of active labor market policy has received little rigorous impact evaluation: immigration barriers intended to improve the terms of employment for domestic workers by deliberately shrinking the workforce. Recent advances in the theory of endogenous technical change suggest...
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support claims that protectionism and distortive subsidies to agriculture remain widespread in more developed nations, which …
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I develop a method to measure and separate the production misallocation caused by failures in factor markets versus financial markets. When I apply the method to rice farming villages in Thailand I find surprisingly little misallocation. Optimal reallocation would increase output in most...
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