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Donald F. Larson

Senior Economist
DONALD LARSON, is a Senior Economist working on Rural Development in the Development Research Group. Prior to his arrival at the World Bank, Mr. Larson served as an economist with the United States Department of Agriculture and with the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization. At the Bank, Mr. Larson served in several assignments focused on providing policy advice related to commodity and agricultural markets in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Recently, Mr. Larson also contributed to the design of the World Bank's Prototype Carbon Fund and to the International Finance Corporation's program to provide Weather Insurance in Emerging Markets. Mr. Larson holds a B.A. in Economics from the College of William and Mary, an M.A. in Economics from Virginia Tech, and a PhD. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Maryland.

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World Bank working papers and publications

1 .Blue water and the consequences of alternative food security policies in the Middle East and North Africa for water security
2 .The cost structure of the clean development mechanism
3 .Should African rural development strategies depend on smallholder farms ? an exploration of the inverse productivity hypothesis
4 .Aligning climate change mitigation and agricultural policies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
5 .Food security and storage in the Middle East and North Africa
6 .Agriculture and the clean development mechanism
7 .Can Africa replicate Asia's green revolution in rice ?
8 .Measures of fixed capital in agriculture
9 .Incomplete markets and fertilizer use : evidence from Ethiopia
10 .Resource management and the effects of trade on vulnerable places and people : lessons from six case studies
11 .Will the clean development mechanism mobilize anticipated levels of mitigation ?
12 .Substitution and technological change under carbon cap and trade : lessons from Europe
13 .The performance of Bulgarian food markets during reform
14 .Factors affecting levels of international cooperation in carbon abatement projects
15 .Carbon markets, institutions, policies, and research
16 .Heterogeneous technology and panel data : the case of the agricultural production function
17 .Will markets direct investments under the Kyoto Protocol ?
18 .The World Bank economic review 20 (3)
19 .The World Bank research observer 19 (2)
20 .The environment as a factor of production
21 .Rural development and agricultural growth in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand
22 .Commodity market reform in Africa : some recent experience
23 .Intersectoral migration in Southeast Asia - evidence from Indonesia, Thailan, and the Philippines
24 .Can financial markets be tapped to help poor people cope with weather risks ?
25 .Determinants of agricultural growth in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand
26 .Agricultural markets and risks - management of the latter, not the former
27 .Do farmers choose to be inefficient? evidence from Bicol, Philippines
28 .Sugar policy and reform
29 .Commodity market reforms : lessons of two decades
30 .The World Bank economic review 14 (2)
31 .Risks, lessons learned, and secondary markets for greenhouse gas reductions
32 .A new database on investment and capital for agriculture and manufacturing
33 .Commodity risk management and development
34 .The determinants of agricultural production : a cross-country analysis
35 .Agricultural development : issues, evidence, and consequences
36 .Dealing with commodity price uncertainty
37 .Indonesia's palm oil subsector
38 .Uncertainty and the price for crude oil reserves
39 .On the intersectoral migration of agricultural labor
40 .Copper and the negative price of storage
41 .The adding-up problem : strategies for primary commodity exports in sub-Saharan Africa
42 .Policies for coping with price uncertainty for Mexican maize : policies for maize price variability in Mexico
43 .The World Bank economic review 6(3)
44 .The effects of option hedging on the costs of domestic price stabilization schemes
45 .Abolishing green rates : the effects on cereals, sugar, and oilseeds in West Germany
46 .Tariff-based commodity price stabilization schemes in Venezuela
47 .On the relevance of world agricultural prices
48 .The Indonesian vegetable oils sector : modeling the impact of policy changes
49 .Recent trends and prospects for agricultural commodity exports in sub-Saharan Africa




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