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Land in Sicht? Strukturwandel in der deutschen Milchwirtschaft
Hüttel, Silke; von Schlippenbach, Vanessa - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 38, pp. 2-6
Nach einem drastischen Einbruch im vergangenen Jahr ziehen die Milchpreise wieder an. Doch auch künftig kann es zu Preiseinbrüchen in der Milchwirtschaft kommen. Zum einen wirken sich im Zuge der fortschreitenden Liberalisierung der Agrarmärkte internationale Marktentwicklungen verstärkt auf...
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Does the Decoupling Reform Affect Agricultural Employment in Sweden? Evidence from an Exogenous Change
Nordin, Martin - 2013
average agricultural wage of SEK 333,000. However, the subsidy effect is largely keeping jobs in agriculture, i.e. the …
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Implications of the EU-Mercosur Association Agreement for Austria - a preliminary assessment
Sinabell, Franz; Gruebler, Julia; Reiter, Oliver - 2020
the EU and Mercosur countries. It is embedded in a wider Association Agreement and was made public in summer 2019. The …. However, the economies in Mercosur countries will benefit more than EU Member States economies in relative terms. A second … and environmental concerns. An in depth-appraisal of the provisions for agriculture shows potential benefits and costs for …
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The effect of aspirations on agricultural innovations in rural Ethiopia
Mekonnen, Daniel Ayalew; Gerber, Nicolas - 2016
This paper identifies the effect of aspirations on the adoption of agricultural innovations in the context of rural Ethiopia. While most studies on agricultural innovations have focused on identifying observable and resource-related deprivations or 'external' constraints, a related stream of...
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Women Empowerment and Intra-household Dietary Diversity in Nigeria
Tanankem, Belmondo V.; Efobi, Uchenna R.; Atata, Ngozi S. - 2016
This study used a nationally representative survey from the 2012-2013 World Bank’s General Household Survey for Nigeria, to examine the relationship between empowerment, measured using a modification of the Alkire et al. (2013) empowerment index, and household dietary diversity, based on the...
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Climate Change, Water Scarcity in Agriculture and the Economy-Wide Impacts in a CGE Framework
Ponce, Roberto; Parrado, Ramiro; Stehr, Alejandra; … - 2016
This paper analyzes the economic impacts of changes in water availability due to climate change. We develop a new modeling approach as an alternative to include water as a production factor within a global CGE model. We tailor the structure of the ICES model to characterize the key features of...
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Partial minimum wage compliance
Bhorat, Haroon; Kanbur, Ravi; Stanwix, Benjamin - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 4 (2015) 18, pp. 1-20
In many developing countries, a significant portion of the wage distribution is found below the legal minimum wage. In order to fully understand the nature of this non-compliance, we need to compare the counterfactual wage distribution without the minimum wage law to the current wage...
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Why agricultural technological transfers to developing countries should be deregulated
Gisselquist, David; Grether, Jean-Marie - 1998
technologies in agriculture. While developed countries characteristically allow "multiple channel" private and public technological …
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VAT and Agriculture: Lessons from Europe
Cnossen, Sijbren - 2017
inputs, the EU has devised a flat-rate scheme that permits them to charge a presumptive rate (approximately equal to the …
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Global population growth, technology and Malthusian constraints: A quantitative growth theoretic perspective
Lanz, Bruno; Dietz, Simon; Swanson, Timothy M. - 2016
We structurally estimate a two-sector Schumpeterian growth model with endogenous population and finite land reserves to study the long-run evolution of global population, technological progress and the demand for food. The estimated model closely replicates trajectories for world population,...
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