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6 articles found for keyword search: +public +investment

  • Rice Yield Gap between Myanmar and Vietnam: A Matter of Price Policy or Public Investment in Technology?

    Koji Kubo
    This paper examines the rice yield gap between Myanmar and Vietnam, two countries that show a stark contrast in terms of rice production in the past two decades. It considers the impact on yield of price policies and public investments in production technology. While domestic rice prices were once...
    Volume 10 Issue No. 1 (June 2013)

  • Economic Returns to Agricultural Research: Thailand and Indonesia

    Peter Warr
    In both Thailand and Indonesia, the public sector's agricultural research investments have substantially contributed to agricultural productivity growth, as have international investments in agricultural research, through the Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers (CGIAR...
    Volume 20 Issue No. 1 (June 2023)

  • Supply Response and Investment in Agriculture in Andhra Pradesh

    Lalmani Pandey, P. Parthasarathy Rao, P.S. Birthal, Cynthia Bantilan, and Hans P. Binswanger
    The study explored the response of aggregate farm output, input use, and farm investment decisions to output and input prices, wages, technological change, public investments, and climatic factors using district-level panel data of over 39 years from Andhra Pradesh. It confirms the low, short-run...
    Volume 9 Issue No. 2 (December 2012)

  • Food Security in Asia and the Pacific: The Role of Smallholders

    Ganesh Thapa and Raghav Gaiha
    This paper discusses the challenges and opportunities faced by small farmers in Asia and the Pacific region in raising agricultural productivity and in diversifying into high-value commodities. About 87 percent of the world's 500 million small farms (less than 2 hectares) are in this region...
    Volume 9 Issue No. 1 (June 2012)

  • Rural Poverty in Southeast Asia: Issues, Policies, and Challenges

    Arsenio M. Balisacan, Rosemarie G. Edillon, and Sharon Faye Piza
    Economic growth among Southeast Asian countries during the last 25 years has averaged at five percent per year and has been accompanied by a decline in the relative importance of agriculture in the national output and employment. The response of poverty to this growth and structural transformation...
    Volume 2 Issue No. 1&2 (December 2005)

  • Assessing the Effects of Access to Safe Drinking Water on Children's Nutritional Status in Indonesia

    Ryota Nakamura and Takumi Kondo
    This study analyzed the effects of access to safe drinking water on the nutritional status of children under the age of 59 months in urban and rural areas in Indonesia using the Indonesian Family Life Survey 5. Both piped water and packaged water were considered safe to drink. The descriptive...
    Volume 18 Issue No. 2 (December 2021)

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