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Commodity Booms and Busts
Carter, Colin A.; Rausser, Gordon C.; Smith, Aaron - In: Annual Review of Resource Economics 3 (2011) 1, pp. 87-118
Periodically, the global economy experiences great commodity booms and busts, characterized by a broad and sharp comovement of commodity prices. There have been two such episodes since the Korean War. The first event peaked in 1974 and the second in 2008, 34 years apart. Both created major...
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Chapter 40 Food security and food assistance programs
Barrett, Christopher B. - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 2, part B, …, (pp. 2103-2190). 2002
Widespread hunger and malnutrition persist today despite considerable growth in per capita food availability. This has …
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Black Gold & Fool´s Gold: Speculation in the Oil Futures Market
Parsons, John - In: ECONOMIA JOURNAL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN … (2010)
what is known about the level of speculation in the paper oil market. We then analyze the dynamics of the term structure of …
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Zum Curriculum der Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik – Anregungen fuer die Ausbildung von Fuehrungskraeften (Taking Economic Ethics and Business Ethics Seriously – Ordonomic Sugge...
Pies, Ingo; Hielscher, Stefan; Beckmann, Markus - In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik - … 10 (2009) 2, pp. 184-202
International stehen Forderungen im Raum, wirtschafts- und unternehmens-ethische Inhalte in die Managerausbildung zu integrieren. Der Beitrag ent-wickelt aus ordonomischer Sicht zwei Argumente, warum es im Interesse der Betriebswirtschaftslehre liegt, diese Forderungen konstruktiv aufzugreifen....
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The implications of agricultural trade and market developments for food security
Tallard, Grégoire; Liapis, Peter S.; Pilgrim, Graham - 2016
Reducing hunger and undernourishment is a global priority and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have the … ambitious target of eradicating hunger entirely by 2030. Using the OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook to 2024, this paper provides … hunger to be effectively eradicated. The PoU falls from 12% to 8% in Asia and the Pacific and from 23% to 19% in Sub …
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Normativity in Homannian ethics
Minnameier, Gerhard - In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik : zfwu 24 (2023) 2, pp. 150-163
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The role of non-governmental and civil society actors in public sector ethical compliance
Iwuala, Chiamaka - In: Ethics and Accountable Governance in Africa's Public …, (pp. 131-148). 2022
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The Future of Food Business:The Facts, The Impacts and The Acts
Neves, Marcos Fava - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
The Second Edition of <em>The Future of Food Business: The Facts, The Impacts and The Acts</em> is an updated collection of thoughtful articles previously published in leading newspapers around the world based on the author's practical life as international project leader, consultant, businessman,...
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Food security and storage in the Middle East and North Africa
Larson, Donald F.; Lampietti, Julian; Gouel, Christophe; … - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2014
In times of highly volatile commodity markets, governments often try to protect their populations from rapidly-rising food prices, which can be particularly harsh for the poor. A potential solution for food-deficit countries is to hold strategic reserves, which can be called on when...
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Political Economy of Public Policies: Insights from Distortions to Agricultural and Food Markets
Anderson, Kym; Rausser, Gordon; Swinnen, Johan - In: Journal of Economic Literature 51 (2013) 2, pp. 423-77
The agricultural and food sector is an ideal case for investigating the political economy of public policies. Many of the policy developments in this sector since the 1950s have been sudden and transformational, while others have been gradual but persistent. This article reviews and synthesizes...
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