Suchergebnisse

Heterogeneous yield impacts from adoption of genetically engineered corn and the importance of controlling for weather /Jayson L. Lusk, Jesse Tack, and Nathan P. Hendricks --Impacts of climate change and extreme weather on US agricultural productivity: evidence and projection /Sun Ling Wang, Eldon Ball, Richard Nehring, Ryan Williams, and Truong Chau --Farming under weather risk: adaptation, moral hazard, and selection on moral hazard /Hsing-Hsiang Huang and Michael R. Moore --Intranational trade costs, reallocation, and technical change: evidence from a Canadian agricultural trade policy reform /Mark Brown, Shon M. Ferguson, and Crina Viju-Miljusevic --Electricity prices, groundwater, and agriculture: the environmental and agricultural impacts of electricity subsidies in India /Reena Badiani-Magnusson and Katrina Jessoe --Estimating the impact of crop diversity on agricultural productivity in South Africa /Cecilia Bellora, Élodie Blanc, Jean-Marc Bourgeon, and Eric Strobl --Crop disease and agricultural productivity: evidence from a dynamic structural model of verticillium wilt management /Christine L. Carroll, Colin A. Carter, Rachael E. Goodhue, and C.-Y. Cynthia Lin Lawell --Willingness to pay for low water footprint foods during drought /Hannah Krovetz, Rebecca Taylor, and Sofia B. Villas-Boas.

The report examines Malaysia's prospects for developing export-oriented manufacturing industries on the economic base provided by its primary sectors while persevering with the adjustment program begun in 1983. Achieving balance-of-payments equilibrium and containing the increase in external debt make a further spell of fiscal austerity unavoidable, and this is underlined by the restrained investment program outlined in the Fifth Five-Year Plan. (Econom. Voorlichtingsdienst)