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Most of the European Union's (EU) import sources for rice are in developing countries and the least-developed countries … (LDCs). The EU has moreover made a commitment to allow duty-free and quota-free access to rice imports originating in the … is introduced, what happens to the market share of large rice exporters to the EU, especially to the market share of poor …
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participation and debates. We analyze the experience of the Concertation Platform for Rice and the Rice Information and Monitoring …
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prices, natural disasters, and producers' expectations. An econometric estimation of the rice sector, using a panel of 13 … forecasting errors are large. Specifically, Asian rice farmers have a 50% chance of making prediction errors of 10% or more on the …
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Widespread public support exists for the provision of natural amenities, such as lakes, rivers or wetlands, and for efforts to preserve these from agricultural pollution. Agri-environmental policies contribute to these efforts by encouraging farmers to adopt environmentally friendly practices...
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Widespread public support exists for the provision of natural amenities, such as lakes, rivers or wetlands, and for efforts to preserve these from agricultural pollution. Agri-environmental policies contribute to these efforts by encouraging farmers to adopt environmentally friendly practices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821454
A local public goods game in weighted and directed networks is analyzed. Individual efforts are imperfect substitutes, players' preferences are heterogeneous and local externalities are non-uniform and asymmetric. Sufficient conditions under which the game admits a unique equilibrium are...
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One answers to an open question of Herings et al. (2008), by proving that their fixed point theorem for discontinuous functions works for mappings defined on convex compact subset of $\R^n$, and not only polytopes. This fixed point theorem can be applied to the problem of Nash equilibrium...
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In recent years, there has been a rising concern about the policy of major search engines, and more specifically about their ranking in so-called organic results corresponding to keywords searches. The associated proposition is that their behavior should be regulated. The concern comes from...
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We deal with the problem of outsourcing the debt for a big investment, according two situations: either the firm outsources both the investment (and the associated debt) and the exploitation to a private consortium, or the firm supports the debt and the investment but outsources the...
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One answers to an open question of Herings et al. (2008), by proving that their fixed point theorem for discontinuous functions works for mappings defined on convex compact subset of a Euclidean space, and not only polytopes. This rests on a fixed point result of Toussaint
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