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Developing the regulatory environment for competitive agricultural markets
Hill, Lowell D. - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010525933
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Poland - The Functioning of the Labor, Land and Financial Markets : Opportunities and Constraints for Farming Sector Restructuring
World Bank - 2013
This study identifies several factors that inhibit efficiency improvements in the farming sector, both in themselves and through the dynamics of their mutual interaction. The study observes that incentives faced in the labor market have important implications for the land structure and, and in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012558677
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How do agricultural policy restrictions to global trade and welfare differ across commodities ?
Lloyd, Peter John - 2009
"For decades the world's agricultural markets have been highly distorted by national government policies, but very differently for different commodities. Hence a weighted average across countries of nominal rates of assistance or consumer tax equivalents for a product can be misleading as an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394158
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Global distortions to agricultural markets : new indicators of trade and welfare impacts, 1955 to 2007
Lloyd, Peter John - 2009
"Despite recent reforms, world agricultural markets remain highly distorted by government policies. Traditional indicators of those price distortions can be poor guides to the policies' economic effects. Recent theoretical literature provides indicators of trade and welfare-reducing effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394159
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Price Volatility in Food and Agricultural Markets : Policy Responses
FAO - 2011
The approach taken in this report reflects the view of the collaborating international organizations that price volatility and its effects on food security is a complex issue with many dimensions, agricultural and non-agricultural, short and long-term, with highly differentiated impacts on...
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Energy efficiency : lessons learned from success stories
Stuggins, Gary - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011393848
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Competition and performance in the Polish second pillar
Rudolph, Heinz P. - 2007
This paper provides an assessment of the Polish funded pension system and the quality of the regulatory framework for the accumulation phase. There are two elements that distinguish the Polish pension fund portfolios from other reforming countries': the relatively high component of domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521862
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A firm-level analysis of small and medium size enterprise financing in Poland
Klapper, Leora - 2006
"The authors test competing theories of capital structure choices using firm-level data on firm borrowings. The majority of firms in the dataset are privately owned, young, micro or small and medium enterprise (SME) firms concentrated in the service sector. In general, the financing pattern of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522078
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Institutional and policy analysis of river basin management : the Warta River Basin, Poland
Blomquist, William Andrew - 2005
"The authors describe and analyze the emergence of river basin management in the Warta River Basin of Poland. The Warta … basin's 55,193 km2 cover approximately one-sixth of Poland, and the Warta is a principal tributary to the Oder. Water … management in Poland have been earnest, but the dispersion of water policy authority across several levels of government, the …
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