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consumption when they face price and employment fluctuations. …
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1. The Resocot Projet is a research project which brought together teams of researchers from the North and Africa, not …
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dates. Finally we find that the gain of the weather-index based insurance is lower than that of hedging against cotton price … cash crop sectors selling at international market prices without recommending any price stabilisation scheme. …
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products. We find that the amount of edible crops necessary to feed livestock in 2050 is between 8% and 117% of today's need … Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, where the amount of feed from food crops required per unit of animal product proves to be …
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drought index commonly used in hydrology, the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI). The PDSI is based on a hydrological model …-death threshold. Overall, results show a robust link between drought and civil war in Sub-Saharan African states after independence. …
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The aim of this paper is to estimate the impact of weather related income shocks on child health in rural Burkina Faso where rain fed agriculture is the dominant production system. We combine health data originating from the 2008 household survey with meteorological data to define shocks at the...
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engage simultaneously in capacity (production) and, after production levels are made public, there is sequential price … competition in the second stage. Randomizing the order of play in the price subgame, we can find: (i) that the Cournot outcome can …
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L'industrie pharmaceutique, en mutation, est en quête de relais de croissance. Les médicaments orphelins sont destinés à traiter les maladies rares, dont la prévalence statistique est inférieure à 1 personne sur 2000. Les milliers de maladies rares affectent dans leur ensemble des...
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countries, but the magnitude is not the same in all countries. This paper assesses the impact of rising rice price on poverty …
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Based on two experimental studies in which college students participated, this paper investigates the impact of price … display in the luxury sector on low-end brands perceived luxury and attitude. In Study 1, we show that price display is … and conspicuousness. In addition, Study 2 indicates no negative effect of price display on perceptions of luxury for a …
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