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The Political Economy of Food Pricing Policy in China

Huang, Jikun; Zhang, Jun; Rozelle, Scott - eSocialSciences - 2013

The overall goal of this paper is to analyse the political economy of food price policies in China during the global food crisis. The results show that given Chinaâ€™s unique economic and political context and the nature of its agricultural markets, the governmentâ€™s reaction to the...

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Revisiting the Global Food Architecture: Lessons from the 2008 Food Crisis

Christiaensen, Luc - eSocialSciences - 2010

The 2008 episode of food price explosion, political turmoil, and human suffering revealed important flaws in the current global food architecture. This paper argues that to safeguard the strengths of the current system, four failures in market functioning and policymaking must be addressed....

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Impact of Imported Intermediate and Capital Goods on Economic Growth: A Cross Country Analysis

Veermani, C - eSocialSciences - 2009

Knowledge accumulation in the richer countries provides them with comparative advantages in higher productivity …

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Himalyan Glaciers

Raina, V K - eSocialSciences - 2009

A detailed historical review of the research to date spanning more than 50 years, and includes a perspective on the impact of climate change on the glaciers. The Ministry invites comments on the Paper.

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Learning from Crises

Thorat, Usha - eSocialSciences - 2009

Recollect and recount lessons from crises. The key lessons are how to anticipate and take pre-emptive action and …

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Crises, Capital Controls, and Financial Integration

Yeyati, Eduardo; Schmukler, Sergio; Horen, Neeltje Van - eSocialSciences - 2009

This paper analyzes the effects of capital controls and crises on financial integration, using stocks from emerging … capital controls and crises affect international financial integration. The paper shows that capital controls affect cross … international ones, generating a negative premium. The opposite happens in case of capital outflows. Crises affect financial …

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Disentangling the Global Financial Crisis: A Review of the Global Response

Thenuwara, H. N. - eSocialSciences - 2009

At this moment, the world is undergoing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of 1930s. It is not clear exactly which factors instigated the crisis, but there are many candidates; the formation of an asset bubble in the US, and its subsequent crash, continued excessive consumption...

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Foreign Investment in Farmland No Low-hanging Fruit

Chatterjee, Claire Schaffnit - eSocialSciences - 2012

A key driver of foreign investment in land, food security is a challenge mankind has been confronted with in various times and places. Wherever human societies have developed, growing needs have led to increasing arable land, and when land has been limited by nature or wars, food shortages...

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Transgenics in Indian Agriculture: Experiences so far and implications of KIA proposals on Indian Farmers

V, Ramanjaneyulu G - eSocialSciences - 2008

KIA proposes to bring a paradigm shift in Indian Agriculture in terms of human resource development, research, technology generation, technology dissemination and commercialization. In the short run, the KIA would concentrate on the four themes namely, (i) education, learning resources,...

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Mirrors of Value? Advertising and Political Theatre in the Hegemonic Construction of Women in India

Mohan, Dia - eSocialSciences - 2006

'Fair and Lovelyâ€™ fairness cream (FAL) advertisements and plays by Jana Natya Manch (Janam) are cultural representations that make particular claims about Indian womenâ€™s value and what they value. For FAL marketing and advertising professionals, women are potential consumers. It is...

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