Documentos e informes
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Farm / non-farm linkages in rural sub-Saharan Africa : empirical evidence and policy implications (Inglés)
What impact do linkages between the farm and rural non-farm sectors ultimately have on agricultural growth? Although empirical evidence was previously lacking to assess the power of agricultural growth...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: ARU67 Fecha del documento: 31 de mayo de 1987 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Haggblade, Steve,Hazell, Peter,Brown, James
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Fiscal and legal incentives with environmental effects on the Brazilian Amazon (Inglés)
This report provides a detailed discussion of the major economic policy distortions, tax incentives and legal rules which tend to accelerate the pace of settlement in the Amazon and lead to deforestation...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: ARU69 Fecha del documento: 31 de mayo de 1987 Autor: Binswanger,Hans P.
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Land ownership security, farm productivity, and land policies in Thailand (Inglés)
This empirical study assesses the economic implications of land ownership security in rural Thailand. It uses data from this country to rigorously analyze several aspects of land ownership security. It...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: ARU66 Fecha del documento: 30 de abril de 1987 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Feder, Gershon,Onchan, Tongroj,Hongladarom, Chir
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Land registration and titling from an economist's perspective : a case study in rural Thailand (Inglés)
The establishment or upgrading of cadastres and land registration systems is viewed by many as an essential infrastructure investment to be considered by less developed countries. Nevertheless, while many...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: ARU65 Fecha del documento: 28 de febrero de 1987 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Feder,Gershon
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Land rights systems and agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa (Inglés)
As individual rights to land become increasingly important with increases in population growth and advances in agricultural technology, land tenure issues in sub - Saharan Africa will become a major focus...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: ARU64 Fecha del documento: 28 de febrero de 1987 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Feder, Gershon,Noronha, Raymond
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Determinants of women's time allocation in rural Bangladesh (Inglés)
Attempts are increasingly being made to adapt the economic theory of the household to the examination of the time allocation behavior of rural households in developing countries particularly with regard...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: ARU62 Fecha del documento: 28 de febrero de 1987 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Khandker,Shahidur R.
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Rural factor markets in China after the household responsibility system reform (Inglés)
Although transactions in factor markets such as land, labor and credit were severely constrained by government policies in the past, recent reforms in rural areas have brought exchanges in these factors...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: ARU61 Fecha del documento: 30 de noviembre de 1986 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Lin, Justin Yifu
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Resource endowments, farming systems and technology priorities for sub-Saharan Africa (Inglés)
Sub - Saharan Africa, owing to its large diversity of agro-climates, farming systems and endowments in land and labor resources, necessitates different types of technology to enhance agricultural production...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: ARU60 Fecha del documento: 30 de noviembre de 1986 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Binswanger,Hans P.,Pingali, Prabhu
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Credit markets, wealth and endowments in rural South India (Inglés)
The seasonality and variability of agricultural production render the demand for and supply of credit of particular importance in agricultural settings. This paper discusses how incentives and information...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: ARU59 Fecha del documento: 1 de octubre de 1986 Autor: Binswanger, Hans P,Rosenzweig, Mark R
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On the determinants of cross-country aggregate agricultural supply (Inglés)
The nature of supply response is a subject often encountered in evaluating the effects of economic policies. The concept of supply response concentrates on the output-price relationships. The purpose of...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: ARU56 Fecha del documento: 30 de septiembre de 1986 Autor: Binswanger,Hans P.,Mundlak, Yair,Yang,Maw-Cheng,Bowers,Alan Lee
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What can agriculture do for the poorest rural groups? (Inglés)
As much of the world's poorest population lives in rural areas, this paper explores the thesis that agricultural development is the key to reducing poverty in the third world. Correspondingly, this paper...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: ARU57 Fecha del documento: 30 de septiembre de 1986 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Binswanger, Hans P,Quizon, Jaime B
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Population density, market access and farmer-generated technical change in sub-Saharan Africa (Inglés)
Just as technical change in agriculture in the industrialized countries results from the economy's land and labor endowments and by the conditions of demand, so too is farmer-generated technical change...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: ARU58 Fecha del documento: 30 de septiembre de 1986 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Pinghali, Prabhu L,Binswanger, Hans P
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On the determinants of cross-country aggregate agricultural supply (Inglés)
The nature of supply response is a subject often encountered in evaluating the effects of economic policies. The concept of supply response concentrates on the output-price relationships. The purpose of...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: ARU56 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 1986 Autor: Binswanger,Hans P.,Mundlak, Yair,Yang,Maw-Cheng,Bowers,Alan Lee
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Land policies and farm productivity in Thailand's forest reserve areas (Inglés)
In an attempt to counter the problem of lower productivity on farms cultivated by squatters, Thailand has started issuing certificates to squatters awarding them usufruct rights. The rationale behind these...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: ARU55 Fecha del documento: 31 de agosto de 1986 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Feder,Gershon,Onchan,Tongroj,Chalamwong, Yongyuth
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The management of common property resources : collective action as an alternative to privatization or state regulation (Inglés)
Can locally based collective action be a viable way to manage common property resources? Many writers on collective action and common property are sweepingly pessimistic about the ability of the people...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: ARU54 Fecha del documento: 31 de mayo de 1986 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Wade,Robert
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Land ownership security and access to credit in rural Thailand (Inglés)
The paper discusses factors distinguishing lending operations of institutional and non-institutional lenders in rural credit markets. The role of land-ownership security and ability to provide collateral...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: ARU53 Fecha del documento: 30 de abril de 1986 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Feder, Gershon,Onchan, Tongroj,Raparla, Tejaswi
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Land ownership security and farm productivity in rural Thailand (Inglés)
The paper discusses the impact of land ownership security on farmers' input use and output value. Economic theory suggests that farmers with secure legal ownership will have more incentives and better...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: ARU51 Fecha del documento: 30 de abril de 1986 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Feder,Gershon
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Land ownership security and capital formation in rural Thailand (Inglés)
The paper discusses the impact of land ownership security on farm investment and land improvements. It is argued that ownership security enhances capital formation by providing better incentives and improved...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: ARU50 Fecha del documento: 31 de diciembre de 1985 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Feder, Gershon,Onchan, Tongroj
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Land values and land title security in rural Thailand (Inglés)
Ownership security and land rights are important incentives to increasing land productivity and hence land value. This paper reviews the development of formal and informal land rights in Thailand over...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: ARU49 Fecha del documento: 31 de octubre de 1985 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Chalamwong, Yongyuth,Feder, Gershon
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Estimation of aggregate agricultural supply response from time series of cross-country data (Inglés)
Do prices determine the supply response in agriculture? This paper attempts to answer this question by utilizing time series, cross country data in a sample of 58 countries for the period 1969-1978. By...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: ARU48 Fecha del documento: 31 de agosto de 1985 Autor: Binswanger,Hans P.,Mundlak, Yair,Yang,Maw-Cheng,Bowers,Alan Lee