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The dietary impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate; Stroud, Rebekah - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant changes in where people work, eat and socialise. We use novel data on the food and non-alcoholic drink purchases from stores, takeaways, restaurants and other outlets to quantify the impact of the pandemic on the diets of a large, representative panel...
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Programs, prices and policies towards energy conservation and environmental quality in China
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2014
China has gradually recognized that the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the environment cannot be sustained. It has to be changed. This article focuses on China's efforts towards energy conservation and environmental quality. The article discusses a variety of...
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Energy prices, subsidies and resource tax reform in China
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2014
The Chinese leadership in November 2013 determined to embark upon a new wave of comprehensive reforms in China. This is clearly reflected by the key decision of the Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of Communist Party of China to assign the market a decisive role in allocating...
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Energy price reform in China
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2018
Energy Price Reform in ChinaThe Chinese leadership has determined to assign the market a decisive role in allocating resources. To have the market to play that role, getting the energy prices right is crucial because this sends clear signals to both producers and consumers of energy. While the...
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Prenatal sugar consumption and late-life human capital and health : analyses based on postwar rationing and polygenic scores
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hinke Kessler Scholder, … - 2022
Maternal sugar consumption in utero may have a variety of effects on offspring. We exploit the abolishment of the rationing of sweet confectionery in the UK on April 24, 1949, and its subsequent reintroduction some months later, in an era of otherwise uninterrupted rationing of confectionery...
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Productivity and the performance of agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean : from the lost decade to the commodity boom
Nin, Alejandro; Falconi, César A.; Ludena, Carlos E.; … - 2015
This study analyzes the performance of Latin America and the Caribbean's agriculture between 1980 and 2012 looking at … performance of agriculture was the result of fast growth in the use of fertilizer, increases in land productivity, and growth in … contributed significantly to the improved performance of agriculture. Observed growth patterns at the country level suggest that …
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Brazil's agricultural total factor productivity growth by farm size
Helfand, Steven M.; Magalhães, Marcelo; Rada, Nicholas E. - 2015
country's dual agricultural policy focus towards large commercial agribusiness enterprises, led by the Ministry of Agriculture …
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Decarbonization of Costa Rica's agriculture, forestry and other land uses sectors : an application of the IEEM+ESM approach
Banerjee, Onil; Cicowiez, Martín; Vargas, Renato; … - 2021
specifically on the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Uses (AFOLU) sectors. To do so, we apply the Integrated Economic …
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An Amazon tipping point : the economic and environmental fallout
Banerjee, Onil; Cicowiez, Martín; Macedo, Marcia; … - 2021
-adapted agriculture, and improving fire management, would generate approximately US$339.3 billion in additional wealth. From a public …
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Productivity and efficiency in grassland-based livestock production in Latin America : the cases of Uruguay and Paraguay
Nin, Alejandro; Freiría, Heber; Muñoz, Gonzalo - 2019
sheep stocks to historical lows. This growth was driven by changes in nutrition, mostly due to an increase in the area under … recently, by intensive fattening of cattle. Improved nutrition resulted in a reduction in the slaughter age of steers, an …
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