Farm diversification and regional investments: efficient instruments for the CAP rural development targets in rural regions of Finland?
研究通过社会核算矩阵和可计算一般均衡模型，分析将CAP直接补贴转向农场多样化和区域投资对芬兰两个农村地区的分配效应，发现多样化仅在农业比重低时促进收入增长，而投资虽提升GDP和就业但收益集中于城市中心。
This article investigates the distributional effects of rural policies when transferring the CAP direct payments to farm diversification and to the increased demand for regional investments by applying rural–urban social accounting matrices and computable general equilibrium model in two Finnish regions. Transferring subsidies to farm diversification did not accelerate regional growth when agricultural and food industries comprised the core of the economy. In contrast, if the relative importance of agriculture is minor, diversification increased regional income. The growing investments increased both regional GDP and employment. Positive effects, however, tend to accumulate in the urban centres. In addition, agricultural households suffered from welfare losses.