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As a result of climatic conditions such as dry climate, limited arable land and scarce water resources,the Arab region is import dependent for most food commodities. There is a continuously rising discrepancy between food production and food consumption. This makes the region more and more...
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carried out to estimate the wheat yield response function. The explanatory variables were economic, location and climatic … 1979-2009. Mixed and cotton-wheat zone of Punjab were selected for the analysis and Faisalabad and Bahawalpur were selected … from the above two zones respectively, mainly because of their major share in production of wheat. Dummy variable test and …
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demand for wheat based products. The objective of this study is to estimate the demand elasticities of rice in Malaysia … highest compared to other food items in the LA/AIDS model, while income elasticity of demand for wheat (0.5087) is higher than …
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This article provides a quantitative analysis of the effects of Pakistan government domestic wheat procurement, sales …, and trade policies on wheat supply, demand, prices, and overall inflation. Analysis of price multipliers indicates that … increases in wheat procurement prices (one means of promoting domestic procurement) have relatively small effects on overall …
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(wheat or dates) in calculating the probability of drought. In furtherance of this aim, the fuzzy function related to the … have been utilized. In this study, the annual data of wheat and dates from 1994 to 2012 have been utilized (sometimes 2013 … in 1999, 2007 and 2009 and the probability of drought for wheat and dates was 64.29 and 57.14 percent respectively in …
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This study presents the results from a field survey of the wheat growers in the rice-wheat zone of Punjab. The late … maturing basmati rice varieties and the post paddy-harvest conventional tillage practices to prepare seedbed for wheat sowing … often result in delayed planting of the crop. The late sowing is a major factor responsible for low wheat yields obtained by …
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This paper presents a pair of models of the storage of maize. One is directly based on standard financial models of portfolio choice. Rather than optimally balancing a financial portfolio by choosing from a variety of financial instruments, our agents optimize holdings of maize by choosing from...
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Abstract This is to assess intergenerational mobility and inequalities in educational attainment in Arab countries with the aim of finding out about the existence of a Gatsby curve for education. The existence of links between intergenerational mobility and inequalities provide useful insights...
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The paper describes and explains empirically the economic performance of four key copyright-based industries (the book publishing, music sound recording, film production and software industries) in five Arab countries (Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon). Using the Porter (Diamond)...
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the possibilities and problems for Establishment of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the Arab countries. The paper explores the nature and concept of CSR, particularly the Arab initiatives. As well as studying the activation of the...
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