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Taxation Policy and Gender Employment in the Middle East and North Africa Region : A Comparative Analysis of Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia
Fofana, Ismael; Corong, Erwin L.; Chatti, Rim; Bibi, Sami; … - 2013
Empirical evidence suggests that women are more vulnerable to chronic poverty and gender inequality is likely to condition the impacts of policies on the rest of the economy and consequently on poverty itself. While gender-responsive budgeting has made significant headway into economic policy,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014163063
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Assessing Agricultural Trade Comparative Advantage of Myanmar and Its Main Competitors : Findings from UN Comtrade
Zhang, Huaqi - 2019
This paper aims to provide a better understanding of Myanmar's agricultural export performance against its competitors in different regions and determine the policy actions for improving Myanmar's export performance. The normalized revealed comparative advantage (NRCA) index is computed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012888734
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Agribusiness Competitiveness : Applying Analytics, Typology, and Measurements to Africa
Babu, Suresh Chandra - 2017
Agribusiness has a major role to play in the transformation of the agricultural sector in Africa. With the demand for high-value food products increasing around the world, the production and export of these goods represents an opportunity to achieve increases in income and employment. To capture...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948733
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Export Competition Issues after Nairobi : The Recent World Trade Organization Agreements and Their Implications for Developing Countries
Diaz-Bonilla, Eugenio - 2016
This paper reviews, from the perspective of developing countries, the recent agreement reached at the 10th WTO Ministerial at Nairobi related to export competition, including exports subsidies, food aid, export credits and guarantees, and state trading enterprises (STEs). The legal and economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983065
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Structural Change in Argentina, 1935-60 : The Role of Import Substitution and Factor Endowments
Debowicz, Dario - 2013
relative decline of agriculture was due to the policies of import-substituting industrialization (ISI). This was also the …. We find that the declining land-labor ratio was more important than ISI in explaining relative stagnation in agriculture … agriculture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088812
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An Overview of Chinese Agricultural and Rural Engagement in Tanzania
Bräutigam, Deborah - 2013
clearer picture of Chinese activities in agriculture is important as a foundation for Africans and their development partners … to more fruitfully engage with an increasingly important actor. Chinese engagement in agriculture and rural development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088821
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The Road to Specialization in Agricultural Production : Evidence from Rural China
Qin, Yu - 2013
Because many rural poor live in areas far away from markets, we investigate whether better road access could help improve their livelihood and reduce rural poverty. We use three waves of a primary panel survey at the household level conducted in 18 remote natural villages in China to study how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088873
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Women's Empowerment in Agriculture and Dietary Quality Across the Life Course : Evidence from Bangladesh
Sraboni, Esha - 2018
's empowerment in agriculture and indicators of individual dietary quality. Our findings suggest that women's empowerment is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926207
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Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture and Nutritional Outcomes : Evidence From Six Countries in Africa and Asia
Quisumbing, Agnes - 2020
's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), a recent internationally-validated measure based on interviews of women and men within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834108
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WTO Dispute Settlement Cases Involving the Agreement on Agriculture, 1995–2019
Glauber, Joseph W. - 2020
A landmark achievement of the Uruguay Round, and notably, the Agreement on Agriculture, was the full inclusion of … agriculture in multilateral rules and disciplines. Since the birth of World Trade Organization (WTO), a significant number of … member countries have used the dispute settlement mechanism (DSM) for resolving the disputes in agriculture. The DSM has …
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