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Facilitating access to rural services in Vietnam: The invisible social capital link

Hoang Dinh, Quoc; Dufhues, Thomas; Buchenrieder, Gertrud - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

This paper investigates the effects of network based individual social capital on the access of rural households to services. In the context of development economics, an innovative data collection approach is used to determine network based social capital. The approach originates from the field...

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Does an Elected Leader Have Incentives to Provide Public Goods with Future Returns? –Evidence from China

Shu, Youhua; Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Harris, Michael - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

This paper examines changes in the allocation of public funds between production related public goods (PRPGs) and labour augmenting public goods (LAPGs) once elected village leaders replaced an appointment system. We derive a two-period theoretical model in which the interest of appointed...

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Agricultural Clusters in China

Kiminami, Lily; Kiminami, Akira - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

The purpose of this study is to assess the potential of clustering in the development of agriculture and rural communities in China. We shall examine in detail the food industry, which is the link in the food chain that propels the industrialization of agriculture, and identify instances of...

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The Choice of Land Tenure Contracts in the Presence of Transaction Costs in Rice Farming in West Java, Indonesia.

Jamal, Erizal; Mardiharini, Maesti - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

This study assessed the preference for and efficiency of land tenure contract arrangements in rice farming in West Java, Indonesia. Specifically, it examined the transaction costs associated with land tenure contracts, the land tenure contract preference, the efficiency of land tenure contracts,...

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Contract Farming in China: Perspectives of Smallholders

Guo, Hongdong; Jolly, Robert W. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

stability and market access as the key motivations to participate in contract farming. Middleman and agribusiness firms were the …

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Structural Adjustment, Agriculture, and the Poor: A General Equilibrium Analysis of the Kenyan Economy

Tyler, Godfrey; Akinboade, Oludele - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 1992

A computable general equilibrium model based on a social accounting matrix for Kenya is used to simulate the effects of 10-percent devaluation, 10-percent increased.investment, and 10-percent agricultural productivity improvement on the macroeconomy and on the real incomes of the poor. For each...

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Leadership May Have Decisive Influence on Successful Transition of Production Cooperative

Forgacs, Csaba - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

In Hungary increasing number of coops have gone bankruptcy or split up after meeting new legal needs because of not being competitive under market conditions after radical reforms. Others, however, could maintain previous level of farming or even increase it. Former coop members and individual...

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The Common Property Problem and Pastoral Economic Behaviour

Livingstone, Ian - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 1987

Widely accepted views among technical personnel and particularly developmnent programme administrators are that the explanation of widespread range of degradation in pastoral areas lies in the problem of common property (whereby private benefits from putting additional livestock on the range...

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Rural Diversification and Social Capital in Rural Japan

Sakurai, Seiichi; Yokoyama, Shigeki - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

area. Various agribusiness activities have been established in the study area. Diversification of rural economy provides … opportunities for a variety of rural residents to participate in agribusiness activities and contribute to the sustainable … provides the potential for activating community activities such as new agribusiness and has contributed indirectly to …

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Collective Activities for the Management of Rural Common-Pool Resources: A Case Study of Irrigation System from Niigata Prefecture, Japan

Furuzawa, Shinichi; Kiminami, Lily; Kiminami, Akira - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

Generally, an appropriate maintenance and management of the common-pool resources (CPRs) in rural areas can contribute to the enhancement of the “quality of life” of inhabitants through improvement of the local environment, etc. In recent years, with the aging of farm households and the rise...

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