Resultados de búsqueda - "Decadence"

Review of input and output policies for cereals production in Pakistan por Salam, Abdul

“…Pakistan has a long and varied history of intervening in farm input and output markets, going back decades before the period under review. Most significantly, in the wake of economic reforms launched during the 1980s, it has withdrawn from most of the commodity markets except wheat. …”
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Review of input and output policies for cereals production in Pakistan por Salam, Abdul

“…Pakistan has a long and varied history of intervening in farm input and output markets, going back decades before the period under review. Most significantly, in the wake of economic reforms launched during the 1980s, it has withdrawn from most of the commodity markets except wheat. …”
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Constraints to fertilizer use in Nigeria: Insights from agricultural extension service por Banful, Afua Branoah, Nkonya, Ephraim M., Oboh, Victor

“…Fertilizer consumption rates in Nigeria remains among the lowest in the world despite decades of aggressive subsidization. The extension service in Nigeria has a double-edged impact on fertilizer use in the country; not only can their activities increase farmers' demand for fertilizer, but also the organizational framework of the service, Agricultural Development Programs, is the major source of fertilizer for farmers. …”
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Country-level impact of global recession and China's stimulus package: A general equilibrium assessment por Diao, Xinshen, Zhang, Yumei, Chen, Kevin Z.

“…Also, over the next five to six years, China is unlikely to replicate its strong economic performance of the past two decades.…”
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Introduction [In The political economy of agricultural policy reform in India] por Birner, Regina, Gupta, Surupa, Sharma, Neeru

“…Although the policy framework achieved the intended goal of food self-sufficiency, subsidizing the costs of fertilizer and electricity-along with other policies put in place to launch the Green Revolution-has met with increasing criticism during the past decade.…”
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Neighbor effects in the provision of public goods in a young democracy: Evidence from China por Agostini, Claudio A., Brown, Philip H., Zhang, Xiaobo

“…Using a primary panel of 86 rural Chinese administrative villages that have undergone transitions to democracy over the last two decades, we show that the neighborhood effect also exists in a young democracy, albeit at a lower magnitude than in a mature democracy. …”
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Economics of climate change in the Arab world por Verner, Dorte, Breisinger, Clemens

“…Adaptation is a process that will take place over decades as new information makes policy makers reevaluate their climate vulnerabilities. …”
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Food and agriculture in Ethiopia: Progress and policy challenges por Dorosh, Paul A., Rashid, Shahidur

“…The book is designed to provide empirical evidence to shed light on the complexities of agricultural and food policy in today's Ethiopia, highlight major policies and interventions of the past decade, and provide insights into building resilience to natural disasters and food crises. …”
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Bumper crops, producer incentives and persistent poverty: implications for food aid programs in Bangladesh por Dorosh, Paul A., Shahabuddin, Quazi, Aziz, M. Abdul

“…Food aid has played a useful role in Government of Bangladesh efforts to increase food security in the last three decades, adding to foodgrain availability, supplying wheat for targeted distribution to poor households, and helping to finance development projects and programs. …”
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Growth, inequality, and poverty in rural China: the role of public investments por Fan, Shenggen, Zhang, Linxiu, Zhang, Xiaobo

“…In the past two decades, China has achieved world renown for reducing rural poverty. …”
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Growth, inequality, and poverty in rural China: the role of public investments [In Chinese] por Fan, Shenggen, Zhang, Linxiu, Zhang, Xiaobo

“…In the past two decades, China has achieved world renown for reducing rural poverty. …”
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Prospects for food demand and supply in Central Asia por Pandya-Lorch, Rajul, Rosegrant, Mark W.

“…Central Asia has experienced massive economic and social shocks during the past decade following the dissolution of the former Soviet Union. …”
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The changing public role in a rice economy approaching self-sufficiency: the case of Bangladesh por Goletti, Francesco

“…The gap between production and the foodgrain requirements of the population is clearly narrowing, although the need to import wheat will continue for the rest of this decade. The sustained and increasingly stable growth of rice production during the 1970s and 1980s is closely related to the introduction of high-yielding varieties, mainly the winter boro rice crop, which rose from 21 percent of total rice production in 1972/73 to 35 percent in 1989/90. …”
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Role of terms of trade in Indian agricultural growth: a national and state level analysis por Hazell, Peter B. R., Misra, V. N., Hojjati, Behjat

“…Using time series data, this paper analyses the relative contributions of terms of trade and non-price variables in explaining agricultural growth in recent decades in India. Agricultural growth is largely explained by expansion of irrigation, (which in the model is also a proxy for HYVs and other capital investments), and, until the 1970s, by increases in the net cultivated area. …”
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Agricultural and industrial development in Taiwan por Yu-Kang, Mao, Schive, Chi

“…Over the past four decades Taiwan's economy has experienced significant structural change. …”
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Development in Costa Rica: The key role of agriculture por Celis, Rafael, Lizano, Eduardo

“…The 1980s, however, might well be labeled a lost decade. After the second oil-price shock at the end of the 1970s, the economy fell into its worst crisis in more than half a century. …”
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Cultivating nutrition: a survey of viewpoints on integrating agriculture and nutrition por Levin, Carol E., Long, Jennifer, Simler, Kenneth R., Johnson-Welch, Charlotte

“…Over the past decade, donor-funded policies and programs designed to address undernutrition in the Global South have shifted away from agriculture-based strategies toward nutrient supplementation and food fortification programs. …”
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Introduction: The Politics of Gender and Agriculture por Njuki, J., Tufan, H.A., Polar, Vivian, Campos, Hugo, Morgan-Bell, M., Wilde, V.

“…As researchers and practitioners at various stages of our careers and from diverse disciplines, with many decades of collective experience, we have witnessed an evolution in the theory and practice of gender and agriculture. …”
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AIDS and rural livelihoods: Dynamics and diversity in sub-Saharan Africa por Niehof, Anke, Rugalema, Gabriel, Gillespie, Stuart

“…AIDS epidemics continue to threaten the livelihoods of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa. Three decades after the disease was first recognized, the annual death toll from AIDS exceeds that from wars, famine and floods combined. …”
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Maize in Asia: Changing markets and Incentives por Gulati, Ashok, Dixon, John

“…Over the past several decades Asia’s maize economy has expanded significantly, and in recent years Asia’s share of maize production has risen more rapidly. …”
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