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| Desilva, Sanjaya. |
| This paper examines whether sharecroppers and fixed-rent tenants in the rice farms of South Asia are distinguished by their farming skills. The idea that fixed-rent contracts are typically given to relatively skilled tenants dates back to the agricultural (tenancy) ladder hypothesis of Spillman [1919]. The screening models [e.g. Hallagan 1978] that have attempted to formalize this idea assume that landlords do not observe the tenants skill levels. This assumption is restrictive, and has found little support in empirical studies. The principal-agent model proposed in this paper focuses on the differences between time-intensive and skillintensive labor tasks. I show that tenancy contracts are designed to match the provision of these tasks with the owners of... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Land tenancy; Farming skills; Agricultural labor; Sri Lanka; Crop Production/Industries; O13; O17; D23; Q12; Q15. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28401 |
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| Veveris, Armands. |
| The paper provides analysis of dairy farms in the Baltic States, their development since accessing EU. During this period the specialisation level has increased but the total number of farms has fast reduced. The total economic indicators increased until 2007, but they still significantly lag behind Western Europe. Big investment has been made, but in the result, the cost level has not reduced but even increased, which has several reasons. Thus many farms were not ready to survive the economic downturn. The results of the research allow concluding that when planning future support for dairy industry the main attention should be paid to introducing cost competitive technologies, supporting cooperation in the purchase and use of fixed assets; it is necessary... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Dairy sector (O13); Income (Q14); Investment (O16); Support (Q18).; Community/Rural/Urban Development; O13; Q14; O16; Q18. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/95309 |
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| Yaguchi, Yue; Kajisa, Kei. |
| It is widely believed that not only a Green Revolution in a crop sector but also a White Revolution in a dairy sector has generated the great momentum of agricultural development in India since the late 1960s. However, due to the dominance of sector-specific analyses, the importance of the interaction between these two sectors has been neglected in the existing literature. The interaction is important in that the dairy sector provides manure to crop production while the crop sector supplies fodder to the dairy. Using household data collected in Tamil Nadu, India for three decades from 1971, we show the increase of fodder production as a byproduct of Green Revolution in 1970s enabled subsequent White Revolution in 1980s and the byproduct of the White... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Green revolution; White revolution; Agricultural system; India; Production Economics; M3; O13; Q12; Q13; Q56. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25562 |
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| Blackman, Allen; Mathis, Mitchell; Nelson, Peter. |
| Although ignored for decades, environmental issues now attract considerable attention in the literature on economic development. This paper describes research on environmental issues in seven topic areas that historically have been at the heart of development economics: the role of the state, economic growth, trade and industrialization, relations between rich and poor countries, structural adjustment and stabilization, population change, and the objectives and strategies of development. |
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Palavras-chave: Environment; Development; Economics; Literature review; International Development; B20; N01; O1; O13; Q20. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10662 |
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| Dutschke, Michael; Michaelowa, Axel. |
| International climate negotiations have specified that projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) should not lead to a "diversion" of official development assistance (ODA). It is however unchallenged that ODA can be used in capacity building for the CDM. Diversion can be interpreted in financial, sectoral and regional terms. There are possibilities to use ODA benchmarks to define diversion such as the UN 0.7% target but they are unlikely to be politically acceptable. On the project level, three main options exist but none of them is perfect. The value of emissions credits (CERs) could be deducted from ODA. This however leads to a long-term pressure on the ODA level. Differentiating an ODA-financed baseline project and a "piggyback" CDM option is... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: International climate policy; CDM; Development assistance; Environmental Economics and Policy; Q25; O13. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/26243 |
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| Rahim, Afaf H.; van Ierland, Ekko C.; Wesseler, Justus. |
| The gum tree (Acacia senegal) in the Sahel-Sudan zone has many environmental benign functions. An important function is to control desertification. In this paper we analyze farmers' economic incentives to preserve the existing gum trees and their incentives to create new plantations using a real options approach. Results indicate that agricultural crops provide higher economic benefits as compared to gum agroforestry system. However, on the one hand, as gum arabic is produced during the dry period and land is abundant, there are low incentives for deforestation. Instead, farmers' tend to leave the land idle and let the tree growing. On the other hand, our results suggest that an increase in the prices of gum arabic of about 330 per cent is needed to induce... |
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Palavras-chave: Gum arabic; Deforestation; Entry and exit; Real options; Sudan; Crop Production/Industries; D4; N5; O13; Q12; Q23. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25720 |
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| Liddle, Brantley. |
| This paper uses the econometrics of endogenous structural breaks to examine changes in energy intensity for OECD countries over 1960-2009. Nearly all OECD countries currently have significant negatively trending energy-GDP ratios; but for several countries those negative trends are recent, and two countries have recent significant positive trends. For several countries, energy intensity had a significant positive trend followed by a break and then a significant negative trend. Those break-dates, however, appear to have little to do with level of development (GDP per capita). Instead, among the likely causes of break timing are the volatile energy prices of the 1970s and early 1980s and the increased concern for the environment in the late 1960s and early... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Energy intensity; Endogenous structural breaks; Modeling environment and development; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; Q43; O13. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/100578 |
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