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| Abdel Karim, Imad Eldin Elfadil; Abler, David G.. |
| The latest round of multilateral trade negotiations was launched at the ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization in Doha, Qatar, in November 2001. Agriculture is a major item on the agenda for the Doha Round. The primary focus is on the three “pillars” of the Uruguay Round agreement—domestic support, market access, and export competition. The framework for a final agreement was finalized at a Ministerial meeting in Geneva in July 2004, but contains few details on modalities (e.g., the formula to be used for reductions in tariffs/increases in tariff-rate quotas, quantitative limitations on domestic support, and the schedule for the elimination of export subsidies). Detailed proposals on a number of these issues were put forward in October 2005... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Doha Agreement; Sudan; Agricultural markets; Trade policy; Agricultural and Food Policy; International Development; International Relations/Trade; Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37918 |
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| Abdulai, Awudu; Diao, Xinshen; Johnson, Michael. |
| This study focuses on public investments and policy reforms for leveraging growth spillovers at the African regional level. A conceptual framework that is built on the endogenous growth theory and the new economic geography is presented first to gain a better understanding of the underlying theory and empirical evidence on regional integration and growth spillovers. In order to demonstrate the potential benefits from greater cross-border technology spillovers in Africa, as well as from trade liberalization and investment in infrastructure, results from ex-ante simulations using partial and general equilibrium models are then presented and discussed. Results indicate that sizeable regional spillover benefits can be obtained by permitting greater crossborder... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Computable General Equilibrium Models C68; Agricultural growth; Agricultural sector; International Development. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/58371 |
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| Abdulai, Awudu; Johnson, Michael; Diao, Xinshen. |
| This study focuses on public investments and policy reforms for leveraging growth spillovers at the Africa regional level. It reviews first the theory and evidence of knowledge and growth spillovers generally and second the evidence in the African context. Given the limited and scattered evidence of actual past spillovers, it reviews recent ex ante simulations using partial and general equilibrium models to stress the potential for spillovers from greater cooperation in agricultural research, and from trade liberalization, policy harmonization and investments in infrastructure. The results show that permitting greater crossborder transfers and adopting improved technologies could have large spillover multiplier effects on overall economic welfare in the... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Sub-Saharan Africa; Regional cooperation; Spillovers; Agricultural development; International Development. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/57021 |
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| Abreu, Lucimar Santiago; Siviero, Amauri; Bellon, Stephane. |
| O sistema de uso da terra baseado na implantação de sistemas agro florestais na Amazônia é fortemente recomendado pela pesquisa agropecuária brasileira, no entanto, poderia apresentar algumas restrições no âmbito da sustentabilidade econômica de modo a colocar em risco eminente a população menos favorecida deste território. Para equacionar tal problemática de pesquisa analisamos o processo de emergência e de desenvolvimento de uma experiência agroecológica, localizada no sudeste da Amazônia, mais precisamente em Ouro Preto do Oeste, Rondônia. A investigação teve como objetivo central reconstruir a trajetória de conversão das unidades de produção familiar, de maneira tal que as relações sociais de produção, a diversidade de atividades agropecuárias, as... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Transição agroecológica; Desenvolvimento rural sustentável; Biodiversidade; Agricultura de base ecológica; Sistemas agroflorestais; Agro ecological transition; Sustainable rural development; Biodiversity; Ecological based agriculture; Agrofloresty systems; International Development. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/109798 |
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| Ackerman, Frank; Stanton, Elizabeth A.. |
| In a recent article in this journal, Francesco Bosello, Roberto Roson, and Richard Tol make the surprising prediction that the first stages of global warming will, on balance, save a large number of lives. Bosello et al. fail to substantiate this remarkable estimate, and they make multiple mistaken or misleading assumptions. They rely on research that identifies a simple empirical relationship between temperature and mortality, but ignores the countervailing effect of human adaptation to gradual changes in average temperature. While focusing on small changes in average temperatures, they ignore the important health impacts of extreme weather events such as heat waves, droughts, floods, and hurricanes. They extrapolate this pattern far beyond the level that... |
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Palavras-chave: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Environmental Economics and Policy; Health Economics and Policy; International Development; International Relations/Trade; Public Economics; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37240 |
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| Adams, Richard H., Jr.. |
| Many low-income people, especially those from poor rural areas, seek to improve their lives by immigrating in search of work and income, increasingly moving across national borders and further afield. In recent years, the remittances they earn have come to have an important effect on the economies of many developing countries, profoundly affecting poverty, income distribution, and rural economic development in the villages from which the migrated. The results of this study compliment the findings of other IFPRI studies on poverty alleviation, income sources, and rural development. The study uses primary household data from small area of rural Egypt in a innovative way to address such vital questions as who immigrates, how remittances affect poverty and... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Rural development; Egypt; Finance; Emigrant remittances; Rural poor; Income distribution; Alien labor; Egyptian; Economic conditions; Food Security and Poverty; International Development. |
| Ano: 1991 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42132 |
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| Adelman, Irma; Yeldan, A. Erinc. |
| The Asian financial crisis had a profound impact on the global economy. Growth is expected to be slower; risks are higher; and the international flows of capital have been dislocated. Above all, it has set out forces of new conditionality surrounding the developmental state, constraining its ability in designing an independent strategy of industrialization and foreign trade. With the aid of an inter-temporal, multi-region CGE model, we regard the crisis to be the result of a fundamental incompatibility between an independent financial policy with unregulated capital markets. We model the increased financial fragility surrounding the unregulated, short-term speculative capital flows as a sudden and unexpected rise in the domestic risk premium.... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Financial Economics; International Development. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25063 |
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| Adeniyi, Labintan. |
| In poor countries the agricultural sector is essential to growth, poverty reduction, and food security. In Sub- Saharan Africa, the agricultural sector employs 65 percent of the labor force and generates 32 per cent of GDP growth (Christian Friis Bach and all, 2008).More than half of rural employment in Sub- Saharan Africa consists of self-employed farmers, many of whom are women. Women generally own less land and the land they have is often of lower quality than the land owned by men. According to the International Development Research Centre, women in Africa only own 1 per cent of the land. Women have to contend with limited access to financial and technical resources. Women lack political influence. However the recent economic crisis that has affected... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Women Farmer-Africa- Economic Crisis-Challenge and Perspective; International Development; Labor and Human Capital. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/97062 |
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| Adholeya, Alok. |
| In India, the energy sector is going to play an important role in the inclusive and holistic growth of the economy and society. Biofuels, apart from improving the energy scenario, will also have a positive effect on poor communities in rural sectors. India currently imports 70% of its oil, and this figure is estimated to touch 90% by 2030. Since India has only 0.4% of world crude oil, alternatives need to be found. Agriculture in India accounts for 43% of the total geographic area. The total estimated energy requirement of the unelectrified rural sector is about 102.6 million gigajoules(Gj). The current program of bringing 0.4 million ha of marginal land under biodiesel production would amount to producing about 42.1 million Gj from biodiesel, which can... |
| Tipo: Presentation |
Palavras-chave: International Development; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/124494 |
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