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Structural change in Argentina, 1935–60: The role of import substitution and factor endowments por Debowicz, Darío, Segal, Paul

“…This has been the subject of a long-running debate that has exercised Argentine economists throughout the twentieth century, and remains politically salient today. …”
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A new institutional economic analysis of the state and a newi nstitutional economic analysis of the state and agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa por Kydd, Jonathan G.

“…There is constant debate about which services the state should provide and the manner of their provision. Economists (both orthodox and those who pursue New Institutional Economics [NIE]) find that the concepts of public goods, market failure, merit goods, and redistribution (Box 20.1) provide useful guidance in this debate, as they focus attention on needs that would not be met adequately, if at all, were provision left solely to the market.…”
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Forests and the Kyoto protocol: implications for Asia's forestry agenda por Smith, J.

“…Economists have long argued that payment for the environmental services of forests could contribute to forest conservation and sustainable use. …”
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A revised Tobit procedure for mitigating bias in the presence of non-zero censoring with an application to milk-market participation in the Ethiopian highlands por Holloway, G.J., Nicholson, C., Delgado, Christopher L., Staal, Steven J., Ehui, Simeon K.

“…The associated bias in conventional regression procedures applied to censored data and the construction of robust methods for mitigating bias have been preoccupations of applied economists since Tobin [Econometrica 26 (1958) 24]. …”
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Developing a fertilizer strategy for sub-Saharan Africa por Sanders, J.H., Ahmed, M.

“…Now in a recent American Society of Agronomy publication this has become conventional wisdom among both soil scientists and economists (Buresh et al., 1997). Previously mention of input subsidies was almost heretical especially if there were World Bank personnel around. …”
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Information, retail channel and consumers WTP for food safety in Argentina por Berges, Miriam, Casellas, Karina Susana, Echeverría, Lucía, Urquiza Jozami, Gonzalo Martín

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Agriculture carbon pricing in EU, carbon leakage and carbon adjustment mechanism impacts in southern cone beef exports por Cabrini, Silvina María, Olemberg, Demián Jeremías, Cristeche, Estela Raquel, Pace Guerrero, Ignacio Raul, Benito Amaro, Ignacio

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Impact assessment of agricultural research in West Africa: An application of the propensity score matching methodology por Liebenehm, S., Affognon, Hippolyte D., Waibel, H.

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Global impacts of targeted interventions in food security crops – the case of potatoes in developing countries por Kleinwechter, U.

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Financial feasibility analysis of the fortifer business model in the Cape Coast Metropolis in Ghana por Aboah, J., Gebrezgabher, Solomie A., Meuwissen, M.P.M.

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SweetGAINS project Speed Breed and Seed Community of Practice-West Africa virtual meeting report (27,29 May; 1,3,5 June 2020) por International Potato Center

“…The participants included breeders, agronomists, economists, social scientists and program managers.…”
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Returns to food and agricultural R&D; Investments worldwide, 1958-2015 por Hurley, Terrance, Pardey, Philip G., Rao, Xudong, Andrade, Robert Santiago

“…Zvi Griliches published the first formal economic estimate of the rates of return to food and agricultural R&D in the Journal of Political Economy more than half a century ago. Since then many economists have published a large number of similar estimates. …”
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Food inflation, poverty, and urbanization por Headey, Derek D., Hirvonen, Kalle

“…While often termed “food crises”, economists disagree on whether rising food prices increase or decrease poverty: poor people have high food expenditure shares but also produce and sell food, and higher food prices trigger food supply responses and growth in rural wages. …”
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Control and ownership of assets within rural Ethiopian households por Fafchamps, Marcel, Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…There is renewed interest in the intrahousehold allocation of welfare, particularly among economists studying poor countries where even slight differences in the allocation of household resources can have dramatic consequences on child and female nutrition, morbidity, and mortality (Haddad and Hoddinott 1994; Rose 1999; Dercon and Krishnan 2000). …”
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How fast have China's agricultural production and productivity really been growing?: new measurement and evidence por Fan, Shenggen

“…However, reported total output is aggregated using constant prices, which has been proven to be inappropriate by many economists. As a result, growth rates of output reported by the government may be biased. …”
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Rural economy and farm income diversification in developing countries por Delgado, Christopher L., Siamwalla, Ammar

“…Farm-level diversification, the adoption of alternative income-generating activities by farm households, is rarely deemed an explicit objective by economists. Where agricultural transformation has occurred, markets function well and agriculture is a waning portion of overall national product, such as the rice growing regions of Southeast Asia, farm diversification might be a desirable outcome of pursuing a market liberalization objective, but is probably not an end in itself. …”
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Payment for ecosystem services for energy, biodiversity, conservation and poverty reduction in Costa Rica. por Estrada-Carmona, Natalia, DeClerck, Fabrice A.J.

“…As ecosystem services continue to gain in popularity and in demand, it is critical that ecologists and economists continue to collaborate in understanding how to correctly value the provisioning of services, and how to ensure that the service purchased by the buyer is provided by the landowner.…”
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Ex Post Evaluation of Economic Impacts of Agricultural Research Programs: a Tour of Good Practice por Maredia, Mywish K., Byerlee, Derek, Anderson, Jock R.

“…Revised version of a paper presented to the Workshop on "The Future of Impact Assessment in CGIAR: Needs, Constraints, and Options", Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA) of the Technical Advisory Committee, Rome, May 3-6, 2000, FAO, Rome.This paper summarizes "state of the art" in ex post economic impact assessment of agricultural research with an emphasis on providing a practical guide that can be used by research managers and economists working within a research organization under tight time and resource constraints. …”
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Influence of agricultural extension services on technical efficiency of maize farmers in Malawi por Jolex, Aubrey

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From unfair prices to unfair trading practices: Political economy, value chains and 21st century agri-food policy por Swinnen, Johan, Olper, Alessandro, Vandevelde, Senne

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