Search Results - "Price signal"

Soaring food prices and market intervention: Using price signals to guide policy making by Getnet, K., Gabre-Madhin, Eleni Zaude, Rashid, Shahidur, Sineshaw, T.

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Access to information, price expectations and welfare: the role of mobile phone adoption in Ethiopia by Haile, M.G., Assfaw Wossen, Tesfamicheal, Kalkuhl, M.

“…Depending on their income levels, the analysis hints that smallholder farmers would be willing to pay between 7% and 20% of their income to improve the price signal, in other words, to avoid uncertainty on producer prices. …”
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An institutional economic appraisal of worker equity schemes in agriculture by Karaan, A.S. Mohammad

“…Hayami and Ruttan (1985) later introduced the concept of induced innovations: institutional changes tend to follow price signals. More recent work relates to the innovations occurring in firms and industries that enhance global competitiveness (Best 1990; Porter 1990).…”
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Implementing the Uruguay Round: increased food price stability by 2020? by Islam, Nurul

“…As the developing countries open up their markets to world price signals, they could be hurt by fluctuations in prices, especially in the event of shortfalls and high food prices, unless measures to alleviate instability are undertaken. …”
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Pricing behavior in Philippine corn markets: implications for market efficiency by Mendoza, Meyra Sebello, Rosegrant, Mark W.

“…Rosegrant explore this issue by determining the speed with which price signals are communicated between markets and quantifying the impact of new information on the pricing process. …”
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Agricultural transformation: the key to broad-based growth and poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa by Delgado, Christopher L.

“…In commercialized economies, price signals quickly induce factor flows, including items such as investment and technological change. …”
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Agricultural transformation: the key to broad-based growth and poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa by Delgado, Christopher L.

“…In commercialized economies, price signals quickly induce factor flows, including items such as investment and technological change. …”
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Evidence of the role of marketing arrangements and valuation methods in improving beef quality by Liu, Yanyan, Muth, Mary K., Koontz, Stephen R., Lawrence, John D.

“…Tighter vertical coordination through use of alternative marketing arrangements and more precise price signaling through use of different cattle valuation methods may help improve beef quality because these mechanisms facilitate information exchange enabling producers to respond better to consumer demand. …”
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How Integrated Are Rice Markets in Asia? Effects of Crises and Rice Export Quality on Price Shock Transmission by Nguyen, Chi Trung, Morales, Luis Emilio, Hoang, Nam, Balié, Jean, Valera, Harold Glenn

“…The results reveal a tendency for price signals to movetogether across our sample countries, despite variations in their rice production and consumption patterns. …”
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Valuation of access to irrigation water in rural Ethiopia: application of choice experiment and contingent valuation methods by Mekonnen, A., Gebreegziabher, Z., Hagos, Fitsum

“…Moreover, the absence of fees means that there are no pricing signals to encourage conservation of this scarce resource. …”
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The case of tomato in Ghana: Marketing by Robinson, Elizabeth J. Z., Kolavalli, Shashidhara

“…The two-level trader system reduces delays of passing through assembly markets, allowing rapid movement of the produce from producer to consumer, important for highly perishable agricultural products such as tomato, but fragments price signals resulting in poor spatial price adjustments (Bell et al.1999; Orchard and Suglo 1999). …”
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Physical and virtual global food reserves to protect the poor and prevent market failure by von Braun, Joachim, Torero, Máximo

“…Because they impede the free flow of food to where it is most needed and undermine the flow of price signals to farmers, these market failures impose enormous efficiency losses on the global food system, hitting the poorest countries and people hardest.…”
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Livestock and water interactions in mixed crop-livestock farming systems of sub-Saharan Africa: interventions for improved productivity by Descheemaeker, Katrien K., Amede, Tilahun, Haileslassie, Amare

“…A conducive policy framework, taking into account equity and gender and geared towards problem-solving local policies, improvements in infrastructure, price signals and land tenure systems, is a prerequisite for the successful application of the LWP concept. …”
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When speculation matters by Robles, Miguel, Torero, Máximo, von Braun, Joachim

“…Because they impeded the free flow of food to where it is most needed and the free flow of price signals to farmers, these market failures imposed enormous efficiency losses on the global food system, hitting the poorest countries hardest. …”
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Exploring environmental and distributional impacts of different transition pathways for healthier and sustainable diets: An economic modelling study by Kuiper, Marijke, de Lange, Thijs, van Zeist, Willem-Jan, van Meijl, Hans

“…We defined a policy bundle of three types of context-specific interventions: (1) nudging and information to shift consumer decisions, (2) adjusting fiscal policies by removing taxes on encouraged foods and subsidies on discouraged ones, and (3) introducing new price signals, such as taxes on high-emission foods and subsidies for encouraged foods. …”
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