timber industry, timber harvesting in Laos is often illegal. Little information is available regarding the illegal Lao timber … act to increase the steady state level of forest stock in Laos. …

Laos is an income-poor but resource-rich country heavily dependent upon its natural forest resources. This paper uses … an optimal control model to analyse deforestation in Laos. Specifically, this paper analyses illegal logging by a sole … commercial logging contractor within a single region in Laos. The commercial contractor aims to maximise discounted profits from …

that the two policies will have different impact on macroeconomic indicators, inter alia exchange rage, export, import and …

which takes into accountchanges in export and domestic demand and market clearing price. It optimizes the supply of … already have significant income effects to agriculturalproducers. We simulated effects of pig meat export bans of different … degrees due to livestockepidemics. Full closure of export markets for six months cost pig sector €21 million. …

animals from the market, and halts the export of livestock products from the infected country. The magnitude of these effects … implications of alternative FMD and export scenarios in the Finnish pig sector. It takes into account dynamics and adjustment of … pig producers can increase considerably when the risk of prolonged export ban increases. Production adjustments also …

Literature reports that small and medium firms face greater difficulty in obtaining the necessary export market … information and in obtaining financing than do larger firms. Accordingly, the United States has many export promotion and … agricultural firms. The objectives of this project were to 1) analyze the export assistance needs of small and medium rural and …