Economies are embedded in nature and depend profoundly on the flow of goods and services it generates, such as food and raw materials, pollination, water filtration, and climate regulation. Since economies...
Innovations in water management and irrigated agriculture powered water-scarce Middle Eastern economies for millennia. However, as water becomes scarcer because of population growth and economic development...
With the aim of promoting national food security, the Vietnamese government enforces the designation of around 35 percent of agricultural land strictly for paddy rice cultivation. The authors investigate...
This paper analyzes the poverty and inequality implications of removing agricultural and non-agricultural price distortions in the domestic market of the Philippines and abroad. Liberalization in the rest...
Since the early 1980s the Philippines has undertaken substantial trade reform. The current Doha Round of World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations is now likely to bring further reform and shocks to...