Market transition payments — (referred to variously as AMTA payments, contract payments, or production flexibility contract payments) are made to farmers under Title I (the Agriculture Market Transition Act, or AMTA) of the 1996 farm bill (P.L. 104 127). These payments were… … Wikipedia
Milk Income Loss Contract Payments — Milk Income Loss Contract (MILC) Payments is the name given by USDA to the dairy farmer counter cyclical payments program, authorized by the 2002 farm bill (P.L. 107 171, Sec. 1502, 7 U.S.C. 7982). Under the program, dairy farmers nationwide are… … Wikipedia
Renewable energy payments — are a competitive alternative to Renewable Energy Credits (REC s).Although the intent with both methods is the same, to stimulate growth in the alternative and renewable energy space, REP s have proven to offer benefits to local jobs, businesses… … Wikipedia
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Monetary Approach to The Balance of Payments — refers to the key ideas and subsequent research of David Hume conducted in the late 1950s, the 1960s and early 1970s. David Hume presented the price–specie flow mechanism against the Mercantilist approach that stated favorable balance of trade is … Wikipedia
Deficiency payments — In the United States, deficiency payments are direct government payments made to farmers who participated in annual commodity programs for wheat, feed grains, rice, or cotton, prior to 1996. The crop specific deficiency payment rate was based on… … Wikipedia
Faux frais of production — is a concept used by classical political economists and by Karl Marx in his critique of political economy. It refers to incidental operating expenses incurred in the productive investment of capital, which do not themselves add new value to… … Wikipedia
Factors of production — In economics, factors of production means inputs and finished goods means output. Input determines the quantity of output i.e. output depends upon input. Input is the starting point and output is the end point of production process and such input … Wikipedia
Tea production in Sri Lanka — Main articles: Economy of Sri Lanka and Sri Lanka Tea plantation in the Sri Lankan central highlands … Wikipedia
Cobb–Douglas production function — A two input Cobb–Douglas production function In economics, the Cobb–Douglas f form of production functions is widely used to represent the relationship of an output to inputs. Similar functions were originally used by Knut Wicksell (1851–1926),… … Wikipedia