While the regulation of tenancy arrangements is widespread in the developing world, evidence on how such regulation influences the long-run allocation of land and labor remains limited. To provide such evidence, this paper exploits quasi-random assignment of linguistically similar areas to different South Indian states and historical variation in landownership across social groups. Roughly thir...

This paper studies the structural transformation of Russia in 1885-1940 from an agrarian to an industrial economy through the lens of a two-sector neoclassical growth model. We construct a dataset that covers Tsarist Russia during 1885-1913 and Soviet Russia during 1928-1940. We use the growth model to develop a procedure that allows us to identify the types of frictions and economic mechanisms...

from chronic food insecurity (World Food Program, 2010). One third of the population is food insecure, the most vulnerable of whom are women and children. International Financial Institutions (IFIs), including the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank (WB) and the InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB), have severely undermined Haiti’s ability to improve food security and reduce hunge...

a field experiment was conducted to investigate the spatial distribution of nutsedge (cyperus spp) during rice growing season using geostatic in 2011 at sari agricultural sciences and natural resources university. at the first field was divided into 36 grids (2.5×2.5 meter) after the final preparation. grid intersection points were determined and marked. all samples were taken from these points...

The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expresse...

The optimal time to plant in rainfed semi-arid India is at the onset of the monsoon. While planting too early may result in losses because the seeds may not germinate if the first rains are not followed by subsequent rains, postponing planting for too long is also costly, because yield will typically be lower. Given that mistakes about the precise timing of the monsoon are costly, in this paper...

The preceding OTA report is not intended to be a comprehensive treatment of all the issues related to food production and agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa. Other authors have addressed different sets of issues from their own perspectives. Two important analyses of the problems faced by Africa follow. Uma Lele’s article reflects her perspective as chief of development strategy for ...

abstract agriculture activity is obvious type of unsafely and risky activities that this part had dealt with lack of trast about amount of production and price as unpleasant atmosphere phenomona, calamities, kind of plant diseases and change in prices. insurance is one of important cases for decreasing risk in agriculture. the main of this research is consideration crop insurance’s affect on op...

abstract the purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors affecting adoption of agricultural crops insurance among apple growers in semirom and eghlid shahrestans and determining the best model. a survey was conducted using the stratified random sampling. data were collected by questionnaire from 240 adopters and 157 non – adopters. the results showed that adopters of insurance are more ...