Amr Khafagy
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External finance and agricultural productivity growth Open
We propose a new method to estimate the impact of external finance on productivity. Using a nested constant elasticity of substitution production function, finance has an indirect influence on productivity through its effect on capital aug…
View article: Lebanon’s agrifood system in times of turbulence: obstacles and opportunities
Lebanon’s agrifood system in times of turbulence: obstacles and opportunities Open
Lebanon currently faces one of the worst economic crises of this century. The political deadlock, the economic crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have further intensified the country’s existing economic fragility. Based on preliminary estima…
Technical change and the Common Agricultural Policy Open
This paper adopts an alternative method for the analysis of the CAP’s impact on farms’ productivity based on a system of equations derived from a non-nested three-factors CES production function. With this method, we estimate the elasticit…
Integrated Assessment of the Sustainability and Resilience of Farming Systems Open
This chapter assessed sustainability and resilience of eleven farming systems in their current situation, as well as in hypothetical future systems, using qualitative and quantitative methods. The assessment shows that current farming syst…
Managing Risks to Improve the Resilience of Arable Farming in the East of England Open
East of England is considered the “bread basket” of the UK, supplying domestic and global food markets but it is under pressures from policy, economic and environmental challenges. This chapter studies with a mixed-method approach the risk…
Evaluation support study on the impact of the CAP on territorial development of rural areas. Socioeconomic aspects Open
This study is an evaluation of the Common Agricultural Policy’s (CAP) impact on balanced territorial development (BTD) of rural areas across EU-28: socio-economic aspects. The main focus of the study is on territorial development of rural …
Drivers of EU regions expenditure on the Risk Management Toolkit of the CAP Open
Farming faces a wider variety of risks in comparison with other economic sectors, and the systemic nature of agricultural risks induce farmers to seek government intervention. In the EU, public interventions supporting agricultural risk ma…
View article: Resilience assessment of current farming systems across the European Union
Resilience assessment of current farming systems across the European Union Open
For improving sustainability and resilience of EU farming system, the current state needs to be assessed, before being able to move on to future scenarios. Assessing sustainability and resilience of farming systems is a multi-faceted resea…
The Economics of Financial Cooperatives : Income Distribution, Political Economy and Regulation Open
"Building on theories of finance and distribution, and the political economy of finance, this book explains the influence of financial cooperatives on wealth and income distribution, and institutional factors that determine the development…
The Economics of Financial Cooperatives Open
Building on theories of finance and distribution, and the political economy of finance, this book explains the influence of financial cooperatives on wealth and income distribution, and institutional factors that determine the development …
Political institutions and financial cooperative development Open
This paper analyses the influence of political institutions on the development of financial cooperatives. It proposes a political economy theory where autocratic regimes deliberately oppose the development of a well-functioning financial c…