After serving 12 of the last 16 years as agriculture secretary, Tom Vilsack will end his tenure leading USDA at the change of administration Monday. In an exit interview, he discussed the potential fate of climate and equity programs under the incoming administration and how his vision for USDA...
a CES structure that retains the ability of the LES system to incorporate different income elasticities of demand14, with those for food typically lower than those for manufactured goods and services. The demand system is calibrated on the income and price elasticities estimated by Muhammad et al....
federal income or withholding tax on gain realised on a sale, exchange, redemption, retirement, or other taxable disposition of Notes, although any amounts attributable to accrued but unpaid interest will be treated as described above under "Payments on the Notes." Backup Withholding and ...
Our results indicate that alleviating the income constraint of households through other policy instruments can go some way in improving health outcomes and easing this trade-off. Finally, while the results are specific to the ecology of the area under study, they do indicate that higher incomes ...
the three remaining block allocations Subheads 1004CA and 1100CA under Head 701 – Land Acquisition and Subhead 5001BX under Head 705 – Civil Engineering (landslip preventive measures), the relevant controlling officers have delegated authority of the FC to approve individual items without a financ...
This was primarily because the interest income from the PRC treasury bonds and local government bonds held by the Bank was exempted from enterprise income tax by the relevant tax laws. Segment Reports We assessed our performance and determined the allocation of resources based on the segment ...
it is dubious that the most ethically defensible option is to maintain this system just to provide the cheapest possible food to low-income persons. In addition to fighting poverty directly, a better solution would be to transition to a less harmful agricultural system and to use food aid to ...
At the micro level, the household ALP is the critical determinant of household income and welfare enhancement. From the perspective of the macro level, improving household ALP is conducive to boost the aggregated agricultural labor productivity, which contributes to narrowing the ALP gap with ...
Moreover, the rate of increase is much faster than that of the per capita net income of rural residents in the same period [33], thus pushing the cost of employment agriculture to break through the critical point of land transfer [26]. Zou et al. [26] found that, when farmers are ...
Agricultural transformation is essential for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) because it has huge potential to spur growth and raise income. Agriculture employs most of the labor in DRC and produces the largest percentage of total value added. Figure1shows that agriculture employs 60.2 percent...