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regulation of legislation and court decisionThe problems to be solved in this study were; first, what authority do the Central … the duty and authority of the Central Finance Controlling Body and the Attorney Institution in determining the elements of … their job based on the Presidential Decree No.103/2001 regulating that the Central Finance Controlling Body has an authority …
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Despite the growth and interest in the agribusiness profession, what constitutes agribusiness management research …. In order to advance the domain of agribusiness management in agricultural economics, this study examines four questions … agribusiness management to be a distinct discipline include Coase?s (1937) treatment on the ?nature of the firm,? Simon?s (1957 …
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The small-scale pepper producers in the El Roble settlement Costa Rica face a monopsonistic market. Only one processing firm is buying the fresh pepper bunches. The processor has all bargaining power to decide on the price paid to the farmers and the quality selection criteria. The rejection...
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Cooperative business firms are prevalent in agribusiness, yet no concise generalizedmodel exists to demonstrate how and why cooperative firms differ from, and may beselected over, the more common investor owned business firm. It is shown within ageneric transaction game that cooperatives fill...
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Dramatic increases in concentration in the seed business, coupled with aggressive efforts to vertically integrate the agricultural sector and to institute contract-based production of commodities, have raised questions about the economic position of producers. Disparate positions of market power...
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Using survey data from the community, producer marketing groups (PMGs) and farmhouseholds in Kenya, this paper investigates the potential of rural institutions (farmerorganizations, their rules and enforcement mechanisms) for remedying pervasive marketimperfections and facilitate access to new...
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In many African countries, governments are re-thinking the role of the state in centrally providing certain goods and services. The rights and responsibilities for providing various public goods are being decentralized to lower levels of government administration, and/or being devolved directly...
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alternative conceptual model for emergency management to deal with disasters comprehensively in order to curtail skyrocketing …
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associated with individual choice to participate in watershed management groups in Haiti, as well as the survival of those groups … necessary condition for the survival of watershed management groups. A majority of participants (and almost all of those who did … not directly gain from management) were members of labor exchange groups and farmer associations. Additional analyses …
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Asian countries. Both approaches were used to understand people's behaviour towards natural resource management or different …
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