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Navigating agricultural domestic support, fisheries subsidies, and food security : a critical examination of the wto rules
Sharma, Sachin Kumar; Shajahan, Ahamed Ashiq; Goswami, … - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014551045
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Multilevel determinants of childhood undernutrition among low-income urban and rural households in the Philippines
Siy Van, Vanessa T.; Sales, Zarah G.; Gordoncillo, … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013534574
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Food systems and the escape from poverty and illhealth traps in sub-Saharan Africa
Barrett, Christopher B. (contributor) - 2008 - Rev.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003805578
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A 2019 Social Accounting Matrix for Benin with detailed representation of agriculture and food processing sectors
Kinkpe, A. Thierry; Luckmann, Jonas Jens; Grethe, Harald; … - 2022
This paper presents a detailed 2019 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Benin as a basis for policy analysis with a focus on agriculture, food processing and energy generation from byproducts. It is based on official statistics collected from national and international institutions (national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013184765
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A note on pollution regulation with asymmetric information
Pench, Alberto - 2016
The paper addresses the problem of information asymmetry between a regulator and the polluting firms and proposes a very simple mechanism where the regulator is free to choose, without communicating in advance to the firms, between two instruments: an effluent fee or a standard: as a result in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451663
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Trade effects of standards harmonization in the EU : improved access for non-EU partners
Shingal, Anirudh; Ehrich, Malte - 2019
In September 2008, the EU replaced national-level regulation on Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs) in pesticides with harmonized Community-wide regulation. Using data on pesticide MRLs for 53 trading partners over 2005-2014, we examine the effects of this harmonization on both intra- and extra-EU...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011994121
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The role of standards in eco-innovation : lessons for policymakers
Vollebergh, Herman R. J.; Van der Werf, Edwin - 2013
This paper aims to help policy makers identify how standards can contribute to the effective and cost … discuss what standards are, how the process of standardization works, and how standards are related to induced innovation and …-saving technologies. This broad perspective enables us to identify interesting economic dimensions of standards, such as their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010189330
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Profiling of conformity assessment procedures (TBT Measures) : special reference to sectoral domination across country grouping
Kallummal, Murali; Khosla, Simran; Gurung, Hari Maya - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014472744
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Evolution and critique of buffer stocking policy of India
Saini, Shweta; Kozicka, Marta - 2014
India's economic standing and its policy landscape have come a long way since the 1943 Bengal famine. History saw buffer stocking of food grains as a famine-combating tool. Today, apart from serving as an effective hedge in times of famines, such grain stocks are a conduit deployed by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010404643
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Leakages from Public Distribution System (PDS) and the way forward
Gulati, Ashok; Saini, Shweta - 2015
The public distribution system (PDS) has been one of the main policy instruments of the Government of India (GoI) to provide food security to the people of this country, especially the vulnerable ones. The recently enacted National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013, also relies heavily on it to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472572