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Determinants of Use and Intensity of Use of Mobile Phone-based Money Transfer Services in Smallholder Agriculture: Case of Kenya
Kirui, Oliver K.; Okello, Julius Juma; Nyikal, Rose Adhiambo - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
Information Communication Technology (ICT)
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Operational Models for Improving the Targeting Efficiency of Agricultural and Development Policies: A systematic comparison of different estimation methods using out-of-sample test...
Houssou, Nazaire; Zeller, Manfred - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
Accurate targeting is key for the success of any development policy. While a number of factors might explain low targeting efficiency such as governance failure, political interference or lack of political will, this paper focuses on improving indicator-based models that identify poor households...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010913408
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Agricultural R&D investment, poverty and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa: Prospects and needs to 205
Nin Pratt, Alejandro - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
agriculture in these regions based in past investment and determines the optimal allocation of R&D investment across regions to … maximize global welfare using a dynamic linear programming model of global agriculture. Results suggest that present allocation … smaller than those observed within SSA due to the importance of China as an innovator in agriculture. …
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Technological progress and efficiency change In Hungarian Agriculture
Fekete-Farkas, Maria; Szucs, Istvan; Varga, Tibor - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
agriculture have been operating at low level of technology and efficiency; there was a big expectation about the fast catching up … Hungarian agriculture based on the years 2005 and 2009 using Data Envelopment Analyses and Malmquist index. The analysis showed … Hungarian agriculture, and the reserves slightly decreased in wheat production, but they increased in the pig sector by EU …
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Impacts of climate change on Brazilian agriculture: an analysis of irrigation as an adaptation strategy
Cunha, Denis Antonio da; Coelho, Alexandre Braganca; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
This paper aims to analyze the effects of climate change on Brazilian agriculture considering irrigation adoption as an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010913879
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Benefits of Public R&D in U.S. Agriculture: Spill-Ins, Extension, and Roads
Wang, Sun Ling; Ball, V. Eldon; Fulginiti, Lilyan E.; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
This paper uses panel data for the 1980-2004 period to estimate the contributions of public research to U.S. agricultural productivity growth. Local and social internal rates of return are estimated accounting for the effects of R&D spill-in, extension activities and road density. R&D spill-in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010913838
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The Role of Livestock In the Ethiopian Economy: Policy Analysis Using A Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Model for Ethiopia
Gelan, Ayele; Engida, Ermias; Caria, A. Stefano; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
Researchers and policymakers increasingly recognize that the livestock sector supports the livelihoods of a large proportion of rural households in most African countries and may have an important role to play in rural poverty reduction strategies. In order to develop this insight, economywide...
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The 2007 emerging corn price surge revisited – Was it expected or a large surprise?
Schmitz, Jochen; Ledebur, Oliver von - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
Point forecasts are a common method to classify uncertain future outcomes. In the option price literature the concept of implied volatility is well known. This concept is used to get a forward looking indicator about the future volatility. Nowadays market expectations can be extracted in...
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Scope Economies of Lending and Collecting Deposits in Microfinance Institutions
Hartarska, Valentina M.; Parmeter, Christopher F. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
While economies of scope of lending and mobilizing deposits in banking are justified theoretically (Diamond, 1984) and found empirically (see Saunders, 1999), in microfinance, the existence and the magnitudes of scope economies has not been investigated. We use a semi parametric smooth...
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The Spanish Horticulture Sector: A dynamic efficiency analysis of Outdoor and Greenhouse farms
Lambarraa, Fatima - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
The horticulture sector plays a relevant role in Spanish agriculture and economy. Their participation in the final …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880354