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Working Papers

2009

1. Agricultural Price Distortion and Stabilization: Stylized facts and Hypothesis Tests
   Agricultural Distortions Working Paper, World Bank
2. Agricultural Prices and Income Distribution among Farmers: A Whole-Household, Multi-Country, Multi-Year Analysis
   2009 Annual Meeting, July 26-28, 2009, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association View citations
3. Geography and Economic Transition: Global Spatial Analysis at the Grid Cell Level
   2009 Annual Meeting, July 26-28, 2009, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

2008

4. Accelerating innovation with prize rewards: History and typology of technology prizes and a new contest design for innovation in African agriculture
   IFPRI discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) View citations
5. Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Sub-Saharan and North Africa
   Agricultural Distortions Working Paper, World Bank
6. Linkages between Market Participation and Productivity: Results from a Multi-Country Farm Household Sample
   2008 Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2008, Orlando, Florida, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) View citations
7. THE DISTRIBUTION OF CHILD NUTRITIONAL STATUS ACROSS COUNTRIES AND OVER TIME
   Working Papers, Purdue University, College of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Economics
   Also in 2008 Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2008, Orlando, Florida, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) (2008)

2007

8. Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Africa
   Agricultural Distortions Working Paper, World Bank View citations
9. Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Cameroon
   Agricultural Distortions Working Paper, World Bank View citations
10. Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Senegal
    Agricultural Distortions Working Paper, World Bank View citations

2006

11. GEOGRAPHIC AND INSTITUTIONAL DETERMINANTS OF REAL INCOME:A SPATIO-TEMPORAL SIMULTANEOUS EQUATION APPROACH
    Working Papers, Purdue University, College of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Economics

2005

12. Cartel Pricing with Entry: the Experience of the Far West Marketing Order for Spearmint
    2005 Annual meeting, July 24-27, Providence, RI, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)
13. HOW SUCCESSFUL ARE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS IN FOOD MARKETS? INSIGHTS FROM THE PHILIPPINE RICE MARKET
    Working Papers, Purdue University, College of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Economics
    Also in 2005 Annual meeting, July 24-27, Providence, RI, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) (2005)
    See also Journal Article in Philippine Journal of Development (2007)

2003

14. RESEARCH PRIZES: A MECHANISM TO REWARD INNOVATION IN AFRICAN AGRICULTURE
    2003 Annual meeting, July 27-30, Montreal, Canada, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) View citations

2002

15. PROPERTY RIGHTS, PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY AND DEFORESTATION: COCOA IN WEST AFRICA
    2002 Annual meeting, July 28-31, Long Beach, CA, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)
16. THE VALUE OF QUALITY CERTIFICATION FOR INFANT FOODS: RESULTS FROM A MARKET EXPERIMENT IN MALI
    2002 Annual meeting, July 28-31, Long Beach, CA, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)
17. Welfare Gains from Quality Certification of Infant Foods: Results from a Market Experiment in Mali
    Framed Field Experiments, The Field Experiments Website View citations
    See also Journal Article in American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2002)

2001

18. CLIMATE AND SCALE IN ECONOMIC GROWTH
    Miscellaneous Papers, Agecon Search View citations
    Also in CID Working Papers, Center for International Development at Harvard University (2000) View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Growth (2001)
19. INVESTING IN SOILS: FIELD BUNDS AND MICROCATCHMENTS IN BURKINA FASO
    2001 Annual meeting, August 5-8, Chicago, IL, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)
    See also Journal Article in Environment and Development Economics (2002)

2000

20. AN AFRICAN GROWTH TRAP: PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY AND THE TIME-CONSISTENCY OF AGRICULTURAL TAXATION, R&D AND INVESTMENT
    Miscellaneous Papers, Agecon Search View citations
    See also Journal Article in Review of Development Economics (2003)
21. Africa's Growth Trap: A Political-Economy Model of Taxation, R&D and Investment
    CID Working Papers, Center for International Development at Harvard University
    Also in Working Papers Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford (2000)

1999

22. A Political Economy Model of Agricultural Taxation, R&D, and Growth in Africa
    Discussion Papers Series, Department of Economics, Tufts University, Department of Economics, Tufts University View citations
23. Ethnolinguistic Diversity, Government Expenditures and Economic Growth Across Countries
    Discussion Papers Series, Department of Economics, Tufts University, Department of Economics, Tufts University View citations
24. Europe, South Africa, and Southern Africa: Regional Integration in a Global Context
    Equity and Growth through Economic Research, EAGER Publication/BHM
    Also in Working Papers, Bell Communications - Economic Research Group (1999)

1998

25. TESTING THE LINK BETWEEN PUBLIC INTERVENTION AND FOOD PRICE VARIABILITY: EVIDENCE FROM RICE MARKETS IN THE PHILIPPINES
    1998 Annual meeting, August 2-5, Salt Lake City, UT, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) View citations

1997

26. IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF AFRICAN AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSFER: SYNTHESIS OF FINDINGS AND LESSONS LEARNED
    Food Security III Papers, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics
    Also in International Development Policy Syntheses, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University (1997)
27. SOIL DEGRADATION, TECHNICAL CHANGE AND GOVERNMENT POLICIES IN SOUTHERN MALI
    1997 Annual meeting, July 27-30, Toronto, Canada, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

1993

28. MEASURING PROTECTION IN AGRICULTURE: THE PRODUCER SUBSIDY EQUIVALENT REVISITED
    Working Papers, International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium View citations

Journal Articles

2008

1. Introduction to the special issue on the world food crisis
   Agricultural Economics, 2008, 39, (s1), 373-374

2007

2. How Successful Are Government Interventions in Food Markets? Insights from the Philippine Rice Market
   Philippine Journal of Development, 2007, XXXIV, (1), 35-59
   See also Working Paper (2005)

2006

3. Diffusion and spillover of new technology: a heterogeneous-agent model for cassava in West Africa
   Agricultural Economics, 2006, 35, (2), 119-129 View citations
4. Libéraliser l'agriculture mondiale? Théories, modèles et réalités
   European Review of Agricultural Economics, 2006, 33, (3), 441-443
5. Property rights, production technology, and deforestation: cocoa in Cameroon
   Agricultural Economics, 2006, 35, (1), 19-26 View citations

2004

6. Complementarity and sequencing of innovations: new varieties and mechanized processing for cassava in West Africa
   Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2004, 13, (1), 19-31

2003

7. An African Growth Trap: Production Technology and the Time-Consistency of Agricultural Taxation, R&D and Investment
   Review of Development Economics, 2003, 7, (2), 179-191 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2000)

2002

8. A market-based approach to child nutrition: mothers' demand for quality certification of infant foods in Bamako, Mali
   Food Policy, 2002, 27, (3), 251-268 View citations
9. Investing in soils: field bunds and microcatchments in Burkina Faso
   Environment and Development Economics, 2002, 7, (03), 571-591
   See also Working Paper (2001)
10. Welfare Gains from Quality Certification of Infant Foods: Results from a Market Experiment in Mali
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2002, 84, (4), 974-89 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2002)

2001

11. Climate and Scale in Economic Growth
    Journal of Economic Growth, 2001, 6, (3), 167-86 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2001)

2000

12. Technical change in Senegal's irrigated rice sector: impact assessment under uncertainty
    Agricultural Economics, 2000, 24, (2), 179-197 View citations
13. Understanding the Political Economy of Agriculture in the Tropics
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2000, 82, (3), 738-42

1998

14. Measuring exchange rate misalignment: Inflation differentials and domestic relative prices
    World Development, 1998, 26, (3), 465-477 View citations
15. Pasture taxes and agricultural intensification in southern Mali
    Agricultural Economics, 1998, 19, (1-2), 27-32 View citations
16. The Uruguay Round and Africa: A Global, General Equilibrium Analysis
    Journal of African Economies, 1998, 7, (2), 208-36 View citations
17. The impact of agricultural research in Africa: aggregate and case study evidence
    Agricultural Economics, 1998, 19, (1-2), 81-86 View citations

1997

18. Production costs and input substitution in Zimbabwe's smallholder agriculture
    Agricultural Economics, 1997, 17, (2-3), 201-209 View citations

1995

19. Returns from research in economies with policy distortions: hybrid sorghum in Sudan
    Agricultural Economics, 1995, 12, (2), 183-192

1993

20. Panterritorial versus regional pricing for maize in Zimbabwe
    World Development, 1993, 21, (10), 1647-1658 View citations

Editor

1. Agricultural Economics
   International Association of Agricultural Economists
2. Agricultural Economics
   Blackwell