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2013 Global Food Policy Report
Marble, Andrew (contributor); Fritschel, Heidi (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
This 2013 Global Food Policy Report is the third in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events. Initiated in response to resurgent interest in food and nutrition security, the series offers a yearly overview of the food policy developments that...
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Reforming agricultural markets in Africa: Achievements and challenges
Kherallah, Mylene (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
reforms to deregulate agricultural markets and reduce the role of state enterprises. How much has the state actually withdrawn … from agricultural markets? Have well-functioning private markets emerged? How successful were these reforms in boosting …, focusing on three major agricultural markets: fertilizer, food crops, and export crops. They examine the historical rationales …
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Aflatoxins: Finding solutions for improved food safety
Unnevehr, Laurian; Grace, Delia - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
barrier to the growth of domestic and international commercial markets for food and feed. In recent years the aflatoxin …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010735453
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An assessment of IFPRI's work in Ethiopia 1995-2010: Ideology, influence, and idiosyncrasy
Renkow, Mitch; Slade, Roger - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
This study provides an independent external assessment of the impact of IFPRI’s work in Ethiopia during 1995–2010. From 1995 to 2004, nearly all of IFPRI’s Ethiopia work was undertaken by Washington-based research teams working on specific themes under various “global...
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2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); …
This 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report is the fourth in an annual series that provides a comprehensive overview of major food policy developments and events. In this report, distinguished researchers, policymakers, and practitioners review what happened in food policy in 2014 at the global,...
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Tariff-Mediated Network Effects versus Strategic Discounting: Evidence from German Mobile Telecommunications
Zucchini, Leon; Claussen, Jörg; Trüg, Moritz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Mobile telecommunication operators routinely charge subscribers lower prices for calls on their own network than for calls to other networks (on-net discounts). Studies on tariff-mediated network effects suggest this is due to large operators using on-net discounts to damage smaller rivals....
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A note on the adverse effect of competition on consumers
Dinda, Soumyananda; Mukherjee, Arijit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
It is usually believed that higher competition, implying more active firms, benefits consumers. We show that this may …
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Competition policy and development: key issues for developing countries – a briefing
Singh, Ajit; Dhumale, Rahul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
development and social welfare in relation to the present and prospective discussions on competition policy in the WTO, UNCTAD …, OECD and other fora. Although this is the immediate backdrop for an examination of competition policy in relation to … for developing countries which emerge from the theoretical and empirical analysis of competition policy and economic …
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Foreign Entry and Heterogeneous Growth of Firms: Do We Observe “Creative Destruction” in China?
Deng, Paul; Jefferson, Gary - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We adopt the framework of Schumpeterian creative destruction formalized by Aghion et al. (2009) to analyze the impact of foreign entry on the productivity growth of domestic firms. In the face of foreign entry, domestic firms exhibit heterogeneous patterns of growth depending on their...
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Product Market Predatory Threats and the Use of Performance-sensitive Debt
Kjenstad, Einar; Su, Xunhua - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We use a variant of the Hotelling (1929) model to illustrate that, when a firm faces hard payment constraint(s), financially strong rivals may adopt predatory strategies to drive the firm out of the product market and hence to obtain extra profit from enhanced market power later on. Predation is...
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