The World Bank Research Observer, vol. 17, no. 2 (Fall 2002), pp. 237--265 (2004)
David Gisselquist, John Nash, Carl Pray
This article looks at regulatory barriers that restrain private technology transfer and the changes that follow when governments reduce some of those barriers. The study was motivated by findings of...
The economics of agricultural research in British Punjab and Pakistani Punjab 1905-1975 / (1978)
Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of Pennsylvania, 1978.
Deregulating technology transfer in agriculture : reform's impact on turkey in the 1980s
Gisselquist, David, Pray, Carl
Turkey is one of a handful of developing countries that have liberalized regulation of agricultural inputs and welcome private firms delivering technology and inputs. The authors show that Turkish...
Supplying crop biotechnology to the poor: Opportunities and constraints
Unlike the public-sector research that launched the Green Revolution, private firms based in industrialised countries have done the majority of agricultural biotechnology research and almost all...
Biotechnology as an alternative to chemical pesticides: a case study of Bt cotton in China
Huang, Jikun, Hu, Ruifa, Pray, Carl, Qiao, Fangbin, Rozelle, Scott
Small holders, Transgenic Varieties, and Production Efficiency: The Case of Cotton Farmers in China
Jikun Huang, Ruifa Hu, Scott Rozelle, Fangbin Qiao, Carl Pray
The overall goal of this study is to measure the effect of the impact that genetically modified cotton varieties have had on the production efficiency of small holders in farming communities in...
David Gisselquist, John Nash, Carl Pray
Many transition and developing economies have reduced direct public involvement in the production and trade of seed and other agricultural inputs. This trend creates opportunities for farmers to...
Jikun Huang, Ruifa Hu, Scott Rozelle, Carl Pray
Although genetically modified (GM) crops are being grown on increasing large areas in both developed and developing countries, with few minor exceptions, there has been almost no country that has...
MARKET STRUCTURE AND INNOVATION IN AG-BIOTECHNOLOGY
Pray, Carl, Bhuyan, Sanjib, Hossain, Ferdaus, Naseem, Anwar
The objective of this paper is to make a contribution to a debated issue in industrial organization that of the relationship between market structure and innovation. We place this topic within a...
Intellectual Property Rights on Research Tools: Incentives or Barriers to Innovation?
This paper examines the role of patents in the development and use of two platform technologies for plant biotechnology - – plant transformation techniques and structural genomics. We find that...
Pray, Carl, Govindasamy, Ramu, Courtmanche, Ann
The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of the current status of research and commercial use of genetically modified (GM) crops worldwide and to quantify the importance of various...
Impact of Biotechnology on Plant Breeding
Hock, Cricket, Naseem, Anwar, Hossain, Ferdaus, Pray, Carl
The application of modern biotechnology to plant breeding is considered to be more efficient and quicker than conventional breeding techniques in the development of new and more resilient crop...
CONSUMER ACCEPTANCE OF GENETICALLY MODIFICED FOODS: A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE US AND CHINA
Bai, Junfei, Zhang, Caiping, Huang, Jikun, Hallman, William K., Pray, Carl, Aquino, Helen L.
Consumer attitudes towards genetically modified foods (GMFs) play a crucial role in the development of the technology. Both government and food manufacturers of agricultural products in the US and...
The Determinants of Research Productivity in Agricultural Biotechnology
Chen, Qiang, Naseem, Anwar, Pray, Carl
The ag-biotech industry underwent considerable consolidation in the last decade in part to take advantage of economics of scale and scope. The paper investigates the impact of such consolidation on...