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- Agricultural trade reform and poverty reduction in developing countries
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December 3, 2007 16:56
The author offers an economic assessment of the opportunities and challenges provided by the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Agenda, particularly through agricultural trade liberalization, for low-income countries seeking to trade their way out of poverty. After discussing links between poverty, economic growth, and trade, he reports modeling results showing that farm product markets remain the most costly of all goods market distortions in world trade.
- Rural vulnerability in Serbia
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November 23, 2007 12:54
In this study, the author analyzes the nature, extent, and causes of rural vulnerability in Serbia using panel national household data from the 2002 and 2003 Serbia Living Standard Surveys.
- Distortions to world trade: impacts on agricultural markets and farm incomes
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November 23, 2007 12:54
The authors provide estimates of the impact that removing all merchandise trade distortions (including agricultural subsidies) would have on food and agricultural production, trade, and incomes.
- Do global trade distortions still harm developing country farmers ?
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November 23, 2007 12:44
The authors estimate the impact of global merchandise trade distortions and services regulations on agricultural value added in various countries.
- Land reform and farm restructuring in transition countries : the experience of Bulgaria, Moldova, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan
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November 23, 2007 12:38
This paper presents such a stocktaking of land reform and farm restructuring in four countries (Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, and Moldova) that have had particular difficulties with land reform, farm restructuring, farm performance, or rural poverty.
- Agribusiness
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May 15, 2007 09:54
With commitments over 3.3 billion euros, the EBRD is one of the leading agribusiness investors in the region. This new brochure highlights some of the Bank's key projects and outlines the types of financing available for activities throughout the production chain, from farming, processing and trading to food distribution and retail.
- Cotton-growing in Tajikistan: problems and perspectives
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May 15, 2007 09:54
This analytical article tells the history of cotton-growing in Tajikistan and estimates the potential of this industry for economic growth of the country.
- Requiem to cotton-growing?
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May 15, 2007 09:54
Current paper is about the situation of cotton complex in Tajikistan and the role, which it could play in the economy of the country
- Tajikistan: land reform
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May 15, 2007 09:54
This paper analyses the condition of agriculture in Tajikistan after the collapse of Soviet Union, which was devastated. The author of the paper gives recommendation on holding land reforms in order to change the situation for better in this sector.
- Turkmenistan: the struggle for rural reform
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May 15, 2007 09:54
Turkmenistan’s ex-president introduced changes to rural residents that made their life more difficult, such as: closing libraries and hospitals. Now, with the new president people are expecting some positive changes.
- Analysis of the Budgetary Costs of the Supporting and Guarantee Agricultural and Forestry Fund
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May 15, 2007 09:54
The paper analyzes the cost to the Czech state budget of the supporting and guarantee Agricultural and Forestry Fund (SGAFF).
- Structural adjustment of Yugoslav agriculture: transition from sectoral to more rural oriented policy
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May 15, 2007 09:54
This paper discusses that further adjustment of the agriculture must be based on creating the policy which has to be more rural oriented policy than sectoral policy.
- Agriculture of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland in Perspective of Joining Common Agricultural Policy – with Some Fiscal Remarks
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May 15, 2007 09:53
This paper discusses problems connected with the accession of Central European Countries (CECs) to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
- The Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of the Budget Cost of the Czech Supporting and Guarantee Agricultural and Forestry Fund
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May 15, 2007 09:51
The paper analyzes the government budget cost of credit guarantees and subsidies.
- Should I work or should I go. Estimating elasticities of labor supply: a case of Polish rural workers
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May 15, 2007 09:51
This paper focuses on testing the daily-targeting hypothesis of labour supply versus the intertemporal substitution hypothesis in case of rural entrepreneurs in the selected provinces of Poland.
- Developing Market Infrastructure for Farming Entities
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May 15, 2007 09:51
The goal of this paper is to provide working recommendations for improving the development of market infrastructure servicing farms.
- Agriculture
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May 15, 2007 09:50
This report is a brief review of the agriculture situation in Kazakhstan for 2002.
- Agricultural Subsidies in Belarus: Efficiency Analysis and Assessment of WTO Compatibleness
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May 15, 2007 09:50
The paper is dedicated to the subsidization of agriculture in the Belarusian context. It provides a short overview of the theoretical approaches to measuring efficiency of agricultural subsidies.
- Subsidizing Agriculture in Belarus: Declared Objective and Actual Outcomes
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May 15, 2007 09:50
This paper analyses the government’s objectives for development of the agricultural sector in Belarus, the performance within the sector over the last decade, and the current system of subsidizing agriculture.
- Taxation of Agriculture in Belarus
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May 15, 2007 09:50
This paper focuses on the taxation of agriculture in Belarus, in particular, on the system of taxation and the structure of the government revenues deriving from agriculture
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