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| Hamade, Kanj; Malorgio, Giulio; Midmore, Peter. |
| While peripheral rural regions in Lebanon face typical problems of lagging development and economic marginalisation, they have not been regarded as a priority for policy-makers, and significant disparities between these and other regions have emerged as a result. Local extensionists have encouraged technological innovation as a means to improving farmers’ livelihoods, and this has led to increasing input use and an intensification of agricultural production. This paper applies contrasting quantitative and qualitative methodologies to analyse the effects of such changes at the level of the overall economy of Lebanon and also to explore the impacts on rural households. A Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model explores several simulation scenarios in... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Community/Rural/Urban Development. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/108960 |
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| Midmore, Peter; Langstaff, Lesley; Lowman, Stephen; Vaughan, Alison. |
| This case study evaluation aims to explore employment impacts of the reformed East Wales RDP in East Wales, a UK region which is highly spatially differentiated. It concentrates on analysis of documentary evidence and representative in-depth interviews which support an evaluative interpretation of mechanisms of rural change. Issues explored relate to problems of the rural economy requiring policy intervention, and CAP rural development reform impacts on rural employment of farm households and workers in other sectors. Major concerns relate to youth out-migration, inadequate childcare provision, age structure, lack of affordable housing, pockets of deprivation, deteriorating service provision, labour supply, spatial diversity, and predominance of small... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Wales; Rural development; Community/Rural/Urban Development. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43959 |
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| Karagiannis, Giannis; Midmore, Peter; Tzouvelekas, Vangelis. |
| This paper proposes an alternative approach for separating technical change from time-varying technical inefficiency. The approach uses the general index, developed by Baltagi and Griffin (1988), to model technical change along the production function, and a quadratic function of time trend, as in Cornwell, Schmidt and Sickles (1990), to capture the temporal pattern of technical inefficiency. In such a setting, all parameters associated with the rate of technical change and the temporal pattern of technical inefficiency are identified separately. Moreover, the proposed approach is independent of any distributional assumption concerning the one-sided error term associated with technical inefficiency, and can easily be estimated using FGLS. Comparative... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: TIME-VARYING EFFICIENCY; PANEL DATA; DAIRY; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; O0; Q1. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11842 |
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| Midmore, Peter; Langstaff, Lesley; Lowman, Stephen; Vaughan, Alison. |
| Complexity and variable uptake of CAP (Pillar 2) measures and rural diversity of the EU provide significant challenges for evaluation. The rationale of indepth case study analysis as an essential complement to formal evaluation techniques is illustrated with comparative studies of employment impacts of Pillar Two policies in 6 rural areas in different EU member states. Recommendations arising include accelerated shifts from commodity support to measures strengthening non-farm sectors of the rural economy, whilst retaining support for farming adaptation; use of clear structural indicators and local expertise to determine priorities; and integration of Pillar Two policies with other measures in consistent, spatially nested Action Plans for Rural Development... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Rural policies; Evaluation; Community/Rural/Urban Development. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44434 |
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| Midmore, Peter. |
| Conservation of the cherished landscapes of National Parks in Britain takes place around the communities which inhabit them. Economic activities of their populations are subject to both constraints and opportunities which the statutory protection provides, with much of the development of economies displaced into their hinterlands. Analysis of spatial relationships between the three National Parks of Wales and the rest of the Wales economy has been explored using a multi-regional input-output model, based on a gravity modelling approach. This allows interregional feedback effects to be monitored and the structural characteristics of interdependence to be explored. Collectively, National Parks make a considerable contribution to the economy of Wales, in... |
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| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/36864 |
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