Productivity Convergence In Brazil The Case Of Grain Production
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: Eduardo Magalhaes, Xinshen Diao |
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: Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
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Synopsis Productivity Convergence in Brazil: The Case of Grain Production by : Eduardo Magalhaes, Xinshen Diao
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: Eduardo C. Magalhaes |
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: 29 |
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: 2009 |
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Synopsis Productivity Convergence in Brazil by : Eduardo C. Magalhaes
"In recent years, Brazil has become a considerable player in agricultural markets for a number of commodities. Such agricultural growth in Brazil has largely been the result of gains in productivity over the last several decades. Still, there remain some sub-national regions and states that lag behind in both agricultural productivity and levels of per capita income. In this paper, we investigate whether technological spillovers in agriculture have reached the poorer or less productive regions with focus on the evolution and patterns of land productivity. To assess such spillovers, we examine three cereal crops: maize, rice and wheat, as these crops are grown by commercial and subsistence farmers throughout the country. We first apply a generalized entropy (GE) method to assess whether inequality in productivity has changed over time. The entropy analysis indicates that the trends for overall entropy did not increase over time for all three crops. Moreover, declining trends in between-group inequality were observed for maize and wheat and remained constant for rice. This result suggests that yields in less productive micro-regions, indeed, have grown faster than yields in more productive micro-regions, at least in the case of maize and wheat. Next, two types of econometric estimations are used to measure whether convergence has occurred in yields of the three crops. The econometric findings are consistent with the GE results and suggest that conditional convergence has occurred in all three crops, which demonstrates that yields in less productive regions converge to those in productive regions, given the control of other factors. However, the process has been rather slow." --from authors' abstract.
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: John M. Ulimwengu |
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: Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
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: 32 |
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: 2009 |
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Synopsis Farmers Health Status, Agricultural Efficiency, and Poverty in Rural Ethiopia: A Stochastic Production Frontier Approach by : John M. Ulimwengu
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: Doris Wiesmann, Lucy Bassett, Todd Benson, and John Hoddinott |
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: Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
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: 104 |
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Synopsis Validation of the World Food Programmes Food Consumption Score and Alternative Indicators of Household Food Security by : Doris Wiesmann, Lucy Bassett, Todd Benson, and John Hoddinott
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: Andre M. Nassar and Diego Ures |
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: Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
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: 50 |
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Synopsis Brazil: Shadow WTO Agricultural Domestic Support Notifications by : Andre M. Nassar and Diego Ures
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: Márcia Maria Guedes Alcoforado de Moraes, Ximing Cai, Claudia Ringler, Bruno Edson Albuquerque, Sérgio P. Vieira da Rocha, and Carlos Alberto Amorim |
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: Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
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Synopsis Joint Water Quantity/Quality Management Analysis in a Biofuel Production Area: Using an Integrated Economic-Hydrologic Model by : Márcia Maria Guedes Alcoforado de Moraes, Ximing Cai, Claudia Ringler, Bruno Edson Albuquerque, Sérgio P. Vieira da Rocha, and Carlos Alberto Amorim
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: Valerie Mueller, Abusaleh Shariff |
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: Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
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: 24 |
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: 2009 |
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Synopsis Preliminary Evidence on Internal Migration, Remittances, and Teen Schooling in India by : Valerie Mueller, Abusaleh Shariff
"Migration can serve as an outlet for employment, higher earnings, and reduced income risk for households in developing countries. We use the 2004-2005 Human Development Profile of India survey to examine correlations between the receipt of remittances from internal migrants and human capital investment in rural areas. We employ a propensity score-matching approach to account for the selectivity of households into receiving remittances. We interpret the results conservatively due to the cross-sectional nature of the data. We find a positive correlation between remittances received from internal migrants and the schooling attendance of teens. The magnitude of the correlation is greater when focusing on low-caste households, and male schooling attendance in particular becomes more positive and statistically significant. Our findings provide a basis for establishing future research in the areas of migration and social protection in India."--Authors' abstract.
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: Derek Headey |
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: Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
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: 28 |
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: 2010 |
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Synopsis The Short-Run Macroeconomic Impact of Foreign Aid to Small States by : Derek Headey
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: Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere, Sindu Workneh, Edward Rhodes, and John Sutherland |
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: Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
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: 69 |
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Synopsis Rebuilding after Emergency: Revamping Agricultural Research in Sierra Leone after Civil War by : Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere, Sindu Workneh, Edward Rhodes, and John Sutherland
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: Guyslain K. Ngeleza, Andrew Muhammad |
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: Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
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: 28 |
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: 2009 |
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Synopsis Preferential Trade Agreements between the Monetary Community of Central Africa and the European Union by : Guyslain K. Ngeleza, Andrew Muhammad
"This paper uses a computable general equilibrium approach to simulate two opposing views describing regional trade agreements either as building blocks for or stumbling blocks to multilateral trade liberalization. This study focuses on the free trade agreement (FTA) between the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC) and the European Union (EU). Results show that although a regional trade agreement may slightly raise welfare among the members of the agreement, the cost to nonmembers can be high. In this paper we argue that multilateral liberalization and a regional free trade agreement between the EU and CEMAC are not mutually exclusive. Regional trade agreements should be complementary and consistent with a multilateral agreement, not an attempt to replace it. The regional breakdown in our design considers 14 regions, allowing for country-specific analysis for one least-developed country (Democratic Republic of Congo) and one non-least-developed country (Cameroon). Multilateral liberalization amplifies welfare gain for Cameroon. The Democratic Republic of Congo, with its weaker institutional capacity, is affected negatively. An EU-CEMAC FTA without multilateralism produces gains for both Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The gain for Cameroon is, however, moderate compared with that achieved when the EU-CEMAC FTA is accompanied with a multilateral agreement."--Authors' abstract.