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Many of the present difficulties of the world economy have been blamed on the two oil-price explosions of the 1970s. Professor Chichilnisky shows that, at least in the case of the oil-importing developing countries, the negative effects have been overestimated. In fact, in some respects the oil...
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brief overview of the main public-private standards that increasingly govern trade in agrifood products. Their dynamic and …
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Agriculture sector plays a vital role in the world economy and provides food for every one of us. The World Trade … Organization (WTO) is important body in the international trade and agriculture. Surprisingly, the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA …) of WTO does not refer to food and agriculture at all. Agricultural subsidies and trade become controversial issues in the …
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Many computable general equilibrium models have been set up recently, in order to assess the benefits of trade … liberalisation, especially in agriculture. Although figures magnitudes differ from one model to another, they cannot reach any other …
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was a modernizing movement, a radical alteration of the production-trade system, composition and population distribution …
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Bajada (2006) recognises that his earlier books and papers used a faulty method for measuring the underground economy in Australia. He also reports finding a new “more serious problem” in the method. All of these failures can be avoided, it is claimed, by reduced use of currency modelling...
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Behaviourism is the view that preferences, beliefs, and other mental states in social-scienti�c theories are auxiliary constructs re-describing people's behav- ioural dispositions. Mentalism is the view that they capture real phenomena, no less existent than the unobservable entities and...
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Bajada (2006) recognises that his earlier books and papers used a faulty method for measuring the underground economy in Australia. He also reports finding a new “more serious problem” in the method. All of these failures can be avoided, it is claimed, by reduced use of currency modelling...
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The all-round aspects of bilateral relations are considered in the common Ukrainian-Polish monograph. Authors uncover important features of social-andeconomic systems convergence under conditions of globalization and European integration, as well as the further transformation of Central- and...
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The purpose of this note is to clarify how the idea of "causal depth" can play a role in finding the more "approximately true" explanation through causal comparisons. It is not an exhaustive treatment but rather focuses on a few aspects that may be the most critical in evaluating the explanatory...
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