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Colombia is the world's third-largest producer of coffee and by far the largest single producer of washed arabica … coffee. This introduction outlines the global situation in brief and sets the context with a synopsis of Colombia's coffee … history and its unique coffee culture. Chapters 2 and 3 assess the impact of the current coffee situation in both economic and …
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strategy, focused on the liberalization of coffee and cocoa prices, their primary marketing and export, all previously … markets as a reliable supplier of quality products. The liberalization took effect in June 1996. Coffee and cocoa exports …
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Vietnam has experienced three sets of direct impacts as a result of the coffee crisis: Some regional economic shocks …, socio-economic impacts in the primary coffee-producing regions that have resulted in the partial dismantling of services … like health-care and education; and post-crisis changes in the business environment. This study of the Vietnamese coffee …
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Despite losing global market share over the last 20 years, Uganda remains a major coffee producer, accounting for … approximately 2.5 percent of global coffee production. In 2008-2009, coffee exports accounted for almost a quarter of Uganda …, the coffee industry is extremely important to both the rural population and the Ugandan economy. However, the sector …
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"By developing a simple theoretical model of the impact of market integration on sectoral output and employment in a poor rural setting, this paper demonstrates that trade can induce asymmetric growth. Under certain, plausible, assumptions, the non-farm sector will grow much faster than the...
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"The authors develop an endogenous growth model that combines structural change with repeated product improvement. That is, the technologies in one sector of the model become not only increasingly capital-intensive, but also progressively productive over time. Application of the basic model to...
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