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5 articles found for keyword search: inequality

  • Poverty, Income Inequality, and Irrigation Development: Longitudinal Evidence from Palawan, Philippines

    Gerald Shively and Richard Yao
    We measure the impacts of irrigation development on poverty and income inequality in a frontier region of the Philippines. Using household panel data we measure changes in standard poverty measures and income inequality over the period 1995–2002. We make comparisons within the beneficiary...
    Volume 12 Issue No. 1 (June 2015)

  • Income Inequality of Oil Palm Plasma Farmers in South Sumatra, Indonesia

    Ngadi
    One of the critical policies to encourage oil palm development in Indonesia is the Nucleus Estate Smallholders Project. This project involves engaging farmer organizations in operating and managing oil palm plantations. However, there are gaps in the organizational performance of plasma farmer...
    Volume 16 Issue No. 2 (December 2019)

  • A Qualitative Review of Vietnam's 2006-2010 Economic Plan and the Performance of the Agriculture Sector

    Phan Sy Hieu
    Vietnam’s economy faced difficulties in the 2006–2010 period due to the global financial crisis. The average inflation rate (greater than 20%) was higher than the expected level (less than 10%) for the period. The average GDP growth rate (6.3%) was lower than the target (7.5%). In the...
    Volume 11 Issue No. 1 (June 2014)

  • Economic Transformation of Agriculture in Asia: Past Performance and Future Prospects

    Keijiro Otsuka
    As an economy develops, agriculture faces distinctly different problems: food insecurity, sectoral income inequality, and food trade deficits associated with declining comparative advantage. Fear of widespread famine was Asia's major agricultural problem in the 1960s, which was subsequently...
    Volume 9 Issue No. 1 (June 2012)

  • Total Factor Productivity Growth and its Determinants for West Bengal Agriculture

    Arpita Ghose and Debjani Bhattacharyya
    The present study is concerned with the measurement of total factor productivity growth (TFPG) using the non-parametric approach for seven major crops--aus, aman, boro, jute, wheat, rapeseed-mustard, and potato--in West Bengal, from 1980 to 2003. TFPG is decomposed into the components of technical...
    Volume 8 Issue No. 1 (June 2011)

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