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| Morley, Samuel A.. |
| Growth in the first post-reform decade in Latin America has been disappointing, largely because of a severe slowdown after 1995 in the countries in South America. Per capita income grew at only .9% per year between 1995 and 1999 compared to 2.7% for 1950-80 and 1.5% for the nineties as a whole. What has gone wrong? The paper finds that neither falling investment, volatile capital inflows nor the implementation of structural reforms is the problem. Indeed relative growth performance across countries is positively related to the amount of reform they adopted. Instead the problem seems to relate to a significant reduction in the growth rate of exports since 1997. Mexico, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic did well, but every country in South America has... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: International Development. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16310 |
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| Mullally, Conner. |
| This paper measures the impact of year one of the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s Rural Business Development program for small rice farming households on the Pacific Coast of Nicaragua. The program was rolled out in the 2009-2010 agricultural year, which was the driest year on record in the region, likely due to an El Niño event. Estimated impacts show that the program at best had no effect, and at worst led to a 10 percent reduction in yields. These impacts are estimated using an econometric model which uses selection on observables as its identifying assumption, and robustness checks suggest that this is a reasonable approach in this case. Inference accounts for spatial correlation across households of the unobserved determinants of agricultural... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Development; Impact evaluation; Agricultural extension; Rural credit; Spatial; International Development. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103799 |
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| Trewin, Ray; Weiguo, Lu; Erwidodo; Bahri, Sjaiful. |
| The high costs and effectiveness of Indonesia's current mix of policies aimed at maintaining rice self-sufficiency, for example fertiliser and other subsidies, has been questioned. Consequently, attention has turned to developing policies to increase farmers yields through efficiencies, for example as a result of better extension. The main issue investigated in this article is whether existing yields can be significantly improved through increasing the efficiency of individual farmers. Production frontiers are estimated and technical efficiencies/inefficiencies predicted from panel data and for one year at a time. Different results are explained in relation to a number of aspects, especially the rate of adoption of new technologies, and policy actions are... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: International Development; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies. |
| Ano: 1995 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22400 |
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| Alvey, James E.. |
| In a recent article in the History of Economics Review, Richard Kleer discussed the role of teleology in Adam Smith’s economic work. Kleer has been at the forefront in promoting the ‘new teleological and theological view’ of Smith. In this view, Smith is portrayed as a theorist whose system of thought is fundamentally shaped by a belief in divine design and Providence. This revisionist account is in sharp contrast to the mainstream view of Smith as a secular follower of David Hume. As the title of his article indicates, Kleer focuses on the Wealth of Nations. In fact, Kleer’s focus is on economic growth, which is probably the central theme of that book. He shows that the mechanisms underlying economic growth are human instincts (rather than human... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: International Development. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/23706 |
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| Begg, Michael; Santos, Paulo. |
| The literature analysing the impacts of livestock banks is limited to a small number of papers, mostly of a qualitative nature. This paper contributes to the knowledge on the impacts of this type of intervention on short- term household food security through the analysis of original data form 112 households that participated in a pig bank in Laos. Taking advantage of the staggered implementation of the program, we use propensity score matching the show that receiving pigs reduces household rice production by approximately 34 percent in the first harvest after participation commenced. However, the effects are differentiated across initial wealth status of the beneficiary: if the household was classified as being poor before the start of the program,... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Laos; Livestock banks; Rice production; Propensity score matching; International Development. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/58883 |
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| Hussein, Maliha H.. |
| The existing social and institutional structures at the village level are so occupied with immediate issues of survival that they have been unable to divert much of their energy to long term development goals. The situation is characterized by the existence of "social traps" which lead people to adopt short term solutions and ignore the long term consequences of their actions. At such low income levels future expected returns are also likely to be discounted at very high rates. It is a reflection of the state of affairs that very little new land was brought under cultivation since independence. Individually, the farmers lacked the resources which could enable them to develop new land. The opening of the Karakorum highway has created new economic... |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; International Development. |
| Ano: 1986 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10963 |
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| Ehui, Simeon K.; Tsigas, Marinos E.. |
| Blessed with abundant land and water resources, Nigeria’s agricultural sector has a high potential for growth, but this potential is not being realized. Productivity is low and basically stagnant. Farming systems, which are mostly small in scale, are still predominantly subsistence-based and for the most part depend on the vagaries of the weather. Many agricultural policies have also been ineffective, either because they have been misguided, or because their impacts have been swamped by macro policies affecting inflation, exchange rates, and the cost of capital. Recognizing these challenges, the Federal Government of Nigeria has identified the modernization of the agricultural sector as a major priority. In this paper we have applied the Global Trade... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: International Development. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51787 |
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| Bali, Namrata; Basu, Kaushik; Bhorat, Haroon; Carre, Francoise; Chen, Martha Alter; Fields, Gary S.; Jhabvala, Renana; Kanbur, Ravi; Lund, Francie; Unni, Jeemol; Valodia, Imraan. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty; International Development; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51152 |
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| Headlines: Thinking Inside the Boxes; Passing the Baton; Agriculture Drives Economic Growth in Africa; For Latest Research Results, Go to Info Finder; South Asian Countries Swap Lessons Learned; Lack of Markets Contributes to Famine in Malawi. |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: International Development. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16496 |
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| Witcover, Julie; Vosti, Stephen A.; Lipton, Michael. |
| Green Revolution technologies were developed and promoted in the 1960s in response to alarm about impending famine in Asia. By boosting food supplies and fostering development, the technologies were expected to create "breathing space" for completing demographic transitions there. This paper uses District-level data from rural India on agricultural transformation (from 1961 to 1981) and on changes in human fertility (from 1971 to 1981) to examine whether they did so. In a reduced form model, female literacy and marriage rates emerged as strong fertility change determinants; effects varied by age cohort. Growth in real wages in rural areas, in part brought about by HYV technologies, accelerated fertility declines. With real wage growth effects of Green... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: International Development; Q16; J1; Q18; D1; O3. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25443 |
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| Roumasset, James A.. |
| The history of thought in the field of Economic Development and corresponding development programs have gone through a series of identifiable phases. Phases of theory and praxis in Agricultural Development are likewise compared. In both cases, there is an apparent lost opportunity to learn the lessons of past failures and successes before moving to the next fad. After reviewing several policy and program areas, a few lessons are synthesized, a forward-looking research framework suggested, and the appropriate role of foreign aid discussed. A particular theme of interest is the balance in thinking and programs between social engineering and facilitation of economic cooperation. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: International Development. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25598 |
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| Bukenya, James O.; Labys, Walter C.. |
| Globalization and the expansion of world wine trade have caused a wine boom that together with agricultural subsidies have made fluctuations in wine inventories a more critical issue. In the case of domestic and international wine markets, little is known about intertemporal inventory adjustments and how they relate to prices. We investigate possible dynamic relations between these variables in a time series context, so as to better understand how wine producers and traders can face growing price and financial volatility. Countries for whom meaningful data series could be constructed include: Argentina, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United States. The study begins by examining the empirical evidence on inventories in these markets and... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Demand and Price Analysis; International Development; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37317 |
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