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An Extension of the Structural Change Model to International Economic Relations
Araujo, Ricardo Azevedo; Teixeira, Joanílio Rodolpho - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
In this paper Pasinetti’s model of structural economic dynamics (1981) is extended to consider international economic relations. Conditions for full employment, full expenditure of income and equilibrium of the trade balance are established for an open economy that requires capital goods to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258954
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Why did the energy intensity fall in China's industrial sector in the 1990s? the relative importance of structural change and intensity change
Zhang, ZhongXiang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
change to the change in China’s energy consumption in the 1980s. However, no detailed analysis to date has been done to … filled this gap by investigating the change in energy consumption in China’s industrial sector in the 1990s, based on the … growth rate dramatically in line with the belief that the growth rate of China’s GDP may be overestimated. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787142
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Computable General Equilibrium Simulations of the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Agreement
Willenbockel, Dirk - 2019
Building upon earlier work by Willenbockel (2013; MPRA Paper No.51501), this study provides an extended ex-ante computable general equilibrium (CGE) assessment of the Tripartite Free Trade Agreement between the member states of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, the East African...
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State Control and the Effects of Foreign Relations on Bilateral Trade
Davis, Christina - 2016
intervene in markets. We examine state ownership of firms as one tool of government control. Taking China and India as examples …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978766
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Eurasian Integration and Its Institutions : Possible Contributions to Security in Eurasia
Vinokurov, Evgeny; Libman, Alexander - 2017
The authors turn to the large family of institutions that came into existence in post-Soviet Eurasia (and, in some ways, beyond it) over the last two decades. The researchers review their current state, agenda, real and perceived mandate, and their respective achievements and constraints. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014118027
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Information age to genetic revolution: Embodied technology transfer and assimilation — A tale of two technologies
Das, Gouranga Gopal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
In this paper, a fifteen regions–fifteen sectors global Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model is calibrated. It offers quantitative enumeration of 5% exogenous biotechnological invention in USA in genetically modified crops namely, maize grains and soybean. Consequently, it results in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260603
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The maximum incremental social tolerable irreversible costs (MISTICs) and other benefits and costs of introducing transgenic maize in the EU-15
Wesseler, Justus; Scatasta, Sara; Nillesen, Eleonora - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The decision to release a new transgenic crop variety for planting in the European Union (EU) is a decision under irreversibility and uncertainty. We use a real option model to assess the ex-ante incremental benefits and costs of the decision to release Bt maize and HT maize in the EU-15 member...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294600
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Acceptance of biotechnology and social-cultural implications in Ghana
Quaye, Wilhemina; Yawson, Ivy; Yawson, Robert M.; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Despite major scientific progress in the application of biotechnology in agriculture, public attitudes towards … biotechnology in general and genetically modified food (GM food) products in particular remain mixed in Africa. Examining responses … order to have clear and unbiased attitudes towards agricultural biotechnology in Africa, there is the need to substitute …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294606
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Editor’s introduction. the future of agricultural biotechnology: creative destruction, adoption, or irrelevance?–in honor of Prof. Vittorio Santaniello.
Wesseler, Justus; Scatasta, Sara - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Biotechnology Research (ICABR) lost one of its most enthusiastic founders and most important contributors. This special issue … biotechnology issues by collecting high-quality, peerreviewed scientific contributions to the ICABR Conference held June 12-14, 2008 … in Ravello, Italy. The conference theme, The Future of Agricultural Biotechnology: Creative Destruction, Adoption, or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325671
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A stakeholder approach to investigating public perception and attitudes towards agricultural biotechnology in Ghana
Yawson, Robert M.; Quaye, Wilhemina; Williams, Irene E.; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
A stakeholder survey was conducted in Ghana to assess the level of public perceptions and acceptance of agricultural biotechnologies. A total of 100 respondents drawn from academia, Non-governmental organizations, business community, government and other stakeholders were interviewed on their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372591