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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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The National Bioenergy Investment Model is a scenario model that simulates the decisions of domestic and international …
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(India), I find significant negative effects of terrorism on the level of investment in long-term agricultural technology but … effects are small and insignificant for short-term investment. The presence of a major terrorist incident in a district in a … year reduces long-term fixed investment by around 17% after controlling for district fixed-effects, time trends, district …
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This paper is an attempt to explore the problems faced by Indian agriculture for food security in terms of inadequate … issues at each sub-system of agriculture supply chain, starting from the input to the consumer, with a view to integrating … achieving gains in this sector. Paper broadly covers some of important aspects of agriculture supply chain in India …
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Agriculture in India is most important sector for food security and socio-economic development. Agriculture accounted … Indian agriculture for food security in terms of inadequate infrastructure and highly inefficient supply chain in context of … information technology. This paper examines the critical issues at each sub-system of agriculture supply chain, starting from the …
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There are competing views of how HIV/AIDS affects saving, and to a lesser extent, investment. One argument is that … translate through to investment. In fact, the absolute value of the impact the disease has on investment is considerably reduced … saving would necessarily have on investment is negated. …
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private investment: contrary to mainstream consensus where-in, English common-law countries are better at championing private …
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intermediary channels of depth, efficiency, activity and size. Findings show that legal origin matters in the finance-investment … nexus; though its ability to explain aggregate investment dynamics only through financial intermediary channels is limited …
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creating Market Information Services for food and agriculture usually fail. The author distills experiences and lessons from …
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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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