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This paper looks at the impact on Australia’s trade in crops (non-wheat grains and oilseeds) where GM technology has been introduced. The model includes assumptions about the productivity gains of GM crops, possible consumer responses and regulatory costs for Australia and its major trading...
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. Its recommendations seek to increase landholder confidence in natural resource planning and regulation, without …
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the WTO for Africa using a framework that explicitly incorporates issues of concern to the region, such as preference … on economic welfare and specialisation in Africa. In the static version of the GTAP model, the study finds that full … African region. Sub-Saharan Africa and, to a lesser extent, Southern Africa, are vulnerable to partial trade reforms as they …
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Privatization became a central element of economic reforms in most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa during the 1990s … impact of privatization in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1991 to 2002 in the light of recent developments, and to derive some … in privatization transactions despite some showcase transactions; fifth, regulation and competition have often been …
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reaching the target audiences have necessitated the introduction of ICT in agriculture. This article discusses the different … models related to ICT in Indian agriculture like, Kisan call centers, The Gyandoot project, Bhoomi project, Village knowledge … centers, and AGMARKNET. In the end, the article discusses the barriers and the outlook of ICT in Indian agriculture. …
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Joining the European Union club implies, among many other policy changes, full integration of Romania's economy into EU's customs union. This is expected to have significant implications for domestic farmers and food processors. The paper constructs a single-country Applied General Equilibrium...
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The author argues that conversion of over 1 million hectares of customary land to leasehold land tenure merely endowed the elite with excessive landholdings they did not fully utilise for tobacco production because it exceeded the requirement for production of the quota of tobacco output...
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The model of exchanges in a competitive economy is developed that is based on an economic agent model who maximises the levels of satisfying his demands. The existence of a weak tendency to formation of value is shown. The interrelation between value and (a) technologies, (b) shadow prices in...
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To help explain some of the issues and examine the potential environmental impacts (positive and/or negative) of selected tax arrangements, the Productivity Commission sought advice from Robert Douglas, a specialist in the field. This consultant’s report makes a contribution to understanding...
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The paper addresses the “spatial” structure of agriculture in Poland whose spatial development is analysed from the … process of progressive differentiation in the regional structure of agriculture which have produced the existing disparities … explores the linkages between the spatial evolution of agriculture and the increasing disparities in terms of regional …
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