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| Rola-Rubzen, Maria Fay; Hardaker, J. Brian; Dillon, John L.. |
| New development paradigms come and go, seemingly with increasing rapidity, yet poverty remains the scourge of the developing nations. As we enter the new millennium, we fear that still more development fads and fancies will emerge, to be taken up and then dropped by the development community. These swings in fashion bring with them the danger that the ‘basics’ of effective development strategies for poverty reduction will be neglected. In this article, we advance some personal and perhaps controversial views about the virtues of getting agriculture moving as a means of reducing poverty, and about the role that agricultural economists can and should play in that endeavour. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/117381 |
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| McArthur, I.D.; Dillon, John L.. |
| A simple utility-based model of risky wool production is presented. Evaluation of the model indicates the effect on optimal stocking rate of changes in the degree of risk aversion, farm area, variable cost, fixed cost, wool cut, wool price, variance of wool price, climatic variability and tax rate. It is shown that the utility hypothesis implies a lower optimal stocking rate than does expected profit maximization and hence implies a discrepancy between private and public optimal resource use which it is suggested, might be mitigated by a progressive bounty on wool production. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 1971 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22978 |
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| Anderson, Jock R.; Dillon, John L.; Hazell, Peter B.R.; Cowie, A.J.; Wan, G.H.. |
| As part of a review of changing patterns of variability in cereal production around the world, the situation in Australia is examined both by major cereal crops and by State in which they are grown. The Australian results are generally consistent with those found in parts of both the industrial and developing world. There has been a tendency for production and especially yields to become both somewhat more variable as assessed by the dimension-free measure, the coefficient of variation, and more covariate between producing regions. The two post-World War II sub-periods examined are dominated, respectively, by tall (traditional) and short (modern) cultivars suggesting that there may be a causal link between cultivar used and relative yield variability. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 1988 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/12268 |
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| Anderson, Jock R.; Dillon, John L.. |
| In a recent reappraisal of evidence adduced for allocative efficiency in traditional agriculture, Dillon and Anderson employed a method based on a combination of traditional economic aspects and statistical aspects of estimated production functions. However, their reappraisal involved using marginal rather than the (appropriate) joint distributions of the regression coefficients. This paper investigates the error associated with using the inappropriate marginal distribution in a reassessment of allocative efficiency in wool growing in the Australian pastoral zone. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Production Economics. |
| Ano: 1971 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22983 |
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| Jarrett, Frank G.; Dillon, John L.. |
| It is argued in this article that over the period from 1948 to 1963, lending to the rural sector by both trading banks and pastoral houses was characterized by an unsatisfied fringe of potential borrowers. Estimates are presented of the effects on rural lending by these agencies of changes in interest rate, bank liquidity, the relative profitability of wool growing and certain other variables. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural Finance. |
| Ano: 1965 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22565 |
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| Wicks, John A.; Dillon, John L.. |
| Based on the University of New England's Aggregative Programming Model of Australian Agriculture (APMAA), estimates of own and cross-price elasticities of supply for wool, beef and wheat under two scenarios are presented by State, B.A.E. zone, farm type and for Australia as a whole. Where possible, these estimates are compared with previous estimates based on econometric analysis of time-series data. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Demand and Price Analysis. |
| Ano: 1978 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10335 |
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| Kennedy, John O.S.; Whan, Ian F.; Jackson, R.; Dillon, John L.. |
| The consequences of carryover for the optimal application of fertilizer are considered using dynamic programming. The conclusions are relevant for the further problem of deciding how many grain crops to harvest from grain sorghum plants grown in a tropical environment. Dynamic programming is also used for solving this problem for the Ord River Valley, and takes account of the interrelations between season and crop cycle number. Data were obtained from investigations conducted in the area. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 1973 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22785 |
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| Dillon, John L.. |
| An outline and appraisal is given of Bernoullian decision theory with a view to its potential use in agricultural contexts, both on and off the farm. Despite the existence of a variety of difficulties and unresolved problems, it is argued that Bernoulli's Principle--because of its recognition of the personal nature of decision making in terms of beliefs and preferences--represents the best possible approach to risky choice in agriculture. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Risk and Uncertainty. |
| Ano: 1971 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9670 |
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| Dillon, John L.; Burley, Harry T.. |
| Some notes prove something ; others disprove something. This one does neither. It merely sketches a simple model of the grazing complex. Of itself, the model is no more than an attempt to specify the more important economic relationships of the grazing complex in an explicit, orderly fashion. Although of undoubted importance, these relationships so far appear to have received little attention. Despite its naivete, the model establishes the virtual impossibility of estimating the parameters ideally needed to specify a profit maximizing system of grazing, even if we assume away climatic and price uncertainty, and the diversity of pasture types, history and location. On the positive side, the model suggests a framework for assessing grazing experiments in... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 1961 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22831 |
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