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In countries where agriculture has substantial role in generating domestic product, sustainable microfinance can … seriously increase economic activities and hence rural development. It is well known that agriculture is perceived as specific … targeted towards strategic economic sectors such agriculture, with a focus on Agricultural Credit Discount Fund - a separate …
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constructed to measure the policy bias against agriculture in a computable general equilibrium (CGE) framework and compare the …
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National averages conceal powerful interactions underlying English economic development in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The simplest operational divisions are north, south and London. Initially industry and business culture predominated in the south but this culture was seduced by...
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Brazil is frequently portrayed as exhibiting persistent and structural economic inequality that is rooted in the early colonial experience, and is believed to undermine development in the long run. I construct original measures of agricultural inequality for 1905 in what is today Brazil’s...
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agriculture seems to be varied with the temperature and precipitation in different climatic zones. …
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Agrarian Studies and Rural Development Ministry of Agrarian Development, the perception of the importance of family agriculture … farm" is not necessarily associated with the "small production " and "low income agriculture ", so as not condemn the …
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In 1996, the agricultural cooperatives in Paraná were responsible for 55% of the state's agriculture GDP , and they act …
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This paper examines the effects of deforestation on the welfare of rural communities in the Congo Basin. Using moment … conditions of agricultural and forest exploitations, findings indicate deforestation significantly improves welfare both at …
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The main objective of this paper is to estimate the technical efficiency of cotton farms in Tajikistan using a stochastic frontier production function, and to derive the optimal farm size. Currently, Tajikistan is reforming its cotton sector. This reform consists essentially of switching from a...
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Recent distressing trends in climate change, population explosion and deforestation inspired this paper, which …
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