Policies for rural areas have become an important but complex policy field in the EuropeanUnion`s Common Agricultural Policy. The purpose of this paper is to report on amethodological approach pursued to model the allocation of EAFRD (European AgriculturalFund for Rural Development) funds in...

In den letzten etwa 130 Jahren hat die Nachfrage nach Nahrungsmitteln weltweit außerordentlichstark zugenommen. Hierfür gibt es vor allem zwei Gründe. Zum einen ist die Weltbevölkerungin diesem Zeitraum sehr schnell gewachsen. Im Jahr 1900 lebten etwa 1,5Milliarden Menschen auf der Welt. Im...

The paper provides a methodology which is suitable for the analysis of the socialcost of disease and the benefits and cost of health intervention by integrating public healthanalysis and economics. The approach developed in the paper is applied to food-bornediarrhea in Rwanda. The results...

The main objectives of the study are to illuminate the development of the Common AgriculturalPolicy (CAP) up to the Agenda 2000 reforms, to evaluate the reform decision of June2003, and to show and discuss options for the future development of the CAP.In chapter 2 the objectives of the CAP are...

Neben Mangelernährung augrund fehlender mene an Nährstoffen zählen qualitative Defizite in der menschlichen Ernährung zu den bedeutendsten Risiken für Krankheit und vorzeitigen Tod in Entwicklungsländern. Wichtige qualitative Risikofaktoren sind die Kontamination von Nahrungsmitteln mit...

Stepwise model selection criteria were tested against the restrictive forms to determine the appropriate model and to confirm the law of one price for the US soybeans. Analysis shows less than one international price transmission and exchange rate elasticities in the long run indicate an...

This paper examines regional differences in obesity rates, Body Mass Index (BMI) and dietary quality, using data from the 1999-2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), Mobile Examination Center (MEC). For women, BMI and obesity prevalence may be higher in the Deep South...

Tobacco production in China is influenced by a government-set procurement price for tobacco leaf, and an excise tax on tobacco leaf revenue. This study examines the increase in the procurement price needed to keep tax revenue constant in the face of a 50% reduction in the tax rate. This...

Politicians and farm lobbyists frequently use the argument that agricultural policy is necessaryto safeguard jobs in agriculture. We explore whether this is true by conducting an econometricex-post evaluation of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in the threeEast German...

Economic research on structural change in agriculture has repeatedly induced controversies aboutbasic theoretical concepts, such as rational behaviour and equilibrium, and their analytical andpolitical implications. To contribute to the epistemological dimension of this debate, the article...