The paper develops a three-sector small open economy model with two final good sector and a non-trade good sector producing industrial intermediate goods in agriculture. It is shown that an increase in either type of labour endowment (capital endowment) raises (lowers) the unempl...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2023/v23i241190
This paper is aimed at theoretically analyzing the environmental implications of privatization, adopted by many developing countries, using a three-sector general equilibrium model. The partially privatized firm owns a monopolistic position in upstream market and offers an essent...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2023/v23i6937
Agriculture in developing countries operates on small-scale land that hinders the utilization of modern inputs. The agricultural producer service sector which acts as an intermediate sector facilitates this process. We build a three-sector general equilibrium model to investigate...
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Research Article10.9734/arjass/2024/v22i2514
This paper systematically examines the repercussions of rural development facilitated by the implementation of the "manufacturing supporting agriculture" policy. The financial resources for public infrastructure development in rural areas are sourced exclusively from the manufact...
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Research Article10.9734/arjass/2023/v21i4499
Previous literature finds that migrants’ remittance narrows down wage inequality between skilled and unskilled labor, since the external funds flow into the rural area and raise wage rate of unskilled labor. However, it should be noted that the structure of agricultural productio...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2023/v23i241189
Small-scale agriculture prevails in developing countries and adds difficulties for the agricultural sector to use modern inputs from the urban region. In practice, raising division among rural area and the development of agricultural producer service sector could solve this probl...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2022/v22i2330733
Many developing countries face severe environmental pollution and the preservation policy, such as the environmental tax, is widely adopted by many governments. This paper investigates the impacts of an increase in environment tax on wage inequality between skilled and unskilled...
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Research Article10.9734/jemt/2022/v28i1030449
In this paper, we hold that it is the input of capital in agricultural production that is the main reason for agricultural pollution in developing countries under existing technical conditions. We try to integrate agricultural pollution into a general equilibrium model with envir...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2024/v24i21233
In developing countries, due to the predominance of marginal and small farmers leads to agriculture practices on small and fragmented plots of land where access and usage to modern farm equipment and implements is hampered. Agricultural producer service sector that acts as an int...
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Research Article10.9734/sajsse/2024/v21i2773
The paper develops a three-sector model with Harris–Todaro type unemployment to examine the consequences of an increase of migrants’ human capital on remittance within a small open dual economy. By using indirect utility functions, the paper endogenizes the remittance. The theore...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaees/2024/v42i12339
Reducing carbon emissions is imperative for achieving sustainable development. Given China's rapid growth in its digital economy, it is necessary to explore the impact of digital economy on emissions intensity. This study employs China’s provincial panel data and uses the fixed e...
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Research Article10.9734/sajsse/2024/v21i1761