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Beside its membership (1995) in the World Trade Organization (WTO), Egypt joined Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) such … Egyptian RTAs. Although the RoO can indeed be regarded as a Non-Tariff Barrier (NTB) for Egypt as a common country in Euro …-Med, COMESA and GAFTA, most of the inputs that are used in the Egyptian products originate in Egypt, in the EU or in countries …
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A frequently encountered problem in import demand estimation is how to account for competition between imports and domestic production. Traditionally, use of the Armington model has been a way to handle this problem. This is a disaggregate model which distinguishes commodities by country of...
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The health implications and costs associated with increasing levels of obesity are awidespread global issue. In the United States, there is a growing interest in identifying methods to reduce obesity levels. Particular focus has been given to advertisements for unhealthy foods, especially...
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Theobjective of this study is to analyze how imported trout affects the domestic U.S. trout industry.
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This study proposes one plausible procedure to address two methodological issues,which are common in micro- and macro- econometric analyses, for the full realization ofresearch potential brought by recently available high dimensional data. To address the issue ofhow to infer the causal structure...
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Phytosterol is a healthful ingredient that helps reduce blood cholesterol levels. It hasbeen over ten years since the first phytosterol-enriched product, Benecol margarine, waslaunched in Finland in 1995; however, understanding of this product is still limited. Inaddition, it has been shown in the...
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Consumption is perhaps the most important economic behavior of human beings. To it goes the lion's share of the country's annual product. This study is part of the ongoing efforts to give a reasonable description of how various factors affect household consumption decision. Those factors include...
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Este artículo muestra cómo modelos de demanda pueden utilizarse para cuantificar los efectos de transferencias en especie y en efectivo sobre el bienestar de los beneficiarios. La metodología propuesta se basa en calcular los «precios virtuales» que garantizarían el mismo nivel de...
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The study of demographic trends in sub-Saharan Africa though crucial in the assessment of the impact of population size and growth on the overall socio-economic development in the region, has received the least attention due to lack of reliable data for most of the countries. This paper focuses...
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