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THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL CAPITAL ON THE REGIONAL GROWTH AND COMPETITIVENESS IN POLAND
Bronisz, Urszula; Heijman, Wim J.M. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2009
This article aims at presenting different approaches to the phenomenon of social capital. The concept of social capital is ambiguous and that is why we will highlight a number of definitions of this notion. The central attention of the paper focuses on the relationship between social capital and...
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Testing Porter's Hypothesis: A Stochastic Frontier Panel Data Analysis of Dutch Horticulture
van der Vlist, Arno; Withagen, Cees; Folmer, Henk - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2005
We propose a test of the Porter hypothesis for the Dutch horticulture sector, using a stochastic production frontier analysis allowing for an inclusion of policy variables to account for the effect of environmental policy of firm performance. We find considerable heterogeneity in the way firms...
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Does Market Orientation in Small-Scale farms pay off? A study of Innovation behaviour in Spanish agriculture
López-Mosquera, Natalia; Álvarez-Coque, José María … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014
The paper underlines the importance of adopting a ‘market-orientation’ strategic approach in order to improve the performance of the firms, previously influenced by the ‘adoption of innovations’ of interest to the agricultural firms in two Spanish regions. The methodology selected has...
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The population census of China
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Who gains and who loses from China’s growth?
Cheptea, Angela - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2012
Recent trade evolutions credit China with a large and growing market potential, and explain the increasing … attractiveness of the Chinese market to foreign producers. In 2007 one tenth of internationally traded products were shipped to China …
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Evolution of Rural Financial Market in China: An Institutional "Lock in" or Gradualism?
Jia, Xiangping; Guo, Pei - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2007
Historically, China's political attempts to provide access to rural credit has met with mixed results and an … depression and many policy-driven financial institutions that dominated the rural financial system in China. More recently … find that there has been negligible progress in the evolution of the rural financial market in China. The policy …
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Labor Market Participation of Chinese Agricultural Households
Glauben, Thomas; Herzfeld, Thomas; Wang, Xiaobing - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2005
This work is devoted to the analysis of the different labor market participation regimes of Chinese farm households. Using household data over the period 1986-2000 from the province Zhejiang, we apply a multinomial logit model to empirically examine household, farm, and regional characteristics...
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Water Saving Technology in Chinese Rice Production - Evidence from Survey Data
Abdulai, Awudu; Glauben, Thomas; Herzfeld, Thomas; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2005
Whereas water is an important input in rice production, China faces severe problems with increasing demand for water …
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Northeast Asian Economic Cooperation in the Post-Cold War Era
LU, Zhongwei - Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, … - 1993
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Maritime Jurisdiction in the Three China Seas
JI, Guoxing - Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, … - 1995
The three China Seas (the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea) are all enclosed or semi … area is left unclaimed. China has maritime jurisdictional disputes with other coastal states bordering on the China Seas … paper outlines three options for the settlement of maritime jurisdictional disputes in the three China Seas. …
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