Impacts of irrigation development on agricultural productivity, resource allocation and income distribution: A longitudinal analysis from Palawan, the Philippines

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2005

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This study evaluates the impacts of irrigation development on farming communities in Palawan. This study focus on three major issues: (1) production efficiency in the lowland communities directly affected by irrigation; (2) activity and asset allocation in upland communities indirectly affected by irrigation; and (3) income distribution and poverty incidence patterns within and between these two communities.

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Irrigation, Poverty, Income generation, Irrigated farming, Stochastic frontier analysis, The Philippines, Ginidecomposition, Farm/Enterprise Scale

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MS Thesis. West Lafayette, In.: Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University