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Acknowledgments I would like to acknowledge the financial assistance provided by the Rural Research and Development Corporation for the project DAN92A, which partly funded this work. This report was prepared over a number of years and as is evident from the references some parts of the work led to joint papers with a number of other staff from NSW Agriculture including The objective of this rep...

Financial Markets Barriers’ in Agricultural Sector: Empirical Evidence of Iran

This paper aims to examine the relationship between financial market development and agricultural sector in Iran. The study attempts to answer these questions empirically and try to shed some light on the roles of financial development as well as other conditional variables in agricultural sector. The results of this study shows that the financial market in agricultural sector, however there is...

Agricultural commodity markets in India: Policy issues for growth

Strengthening institutions in spot and derivative markets for commodities is a necessary ingredient of the liberalisation process in agriculture, and can impact upon the lives of millions. In this paper, we describe the existing market design prevalent on both the spot and the futures markets. We show some evidence on the role played by the nascent futures markets in price discovery. We documen...

Taxation , Free Markets , and the Use of Agricultural Land

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This paper analyses the income and structural effects of the Single Payment Scheme (SPS). In particular, we analyze how the income distributional effects and farm restructuring are impacted by the SPS by accounting for entitlement tradability, cross-compliance and CAP 'greening' requirements, different SPS implementation models, and the entitlement stock. Our results suggest that the SPS implic...