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The dominance of cotton in the irrigated areas of Central Asia has long been criticized for its ecological effects on … dominated by the conventional cotton and wheat rotation introduced after 1991. The second district is home to a wide range of … hands-on experience of harvest mechanisation in the traditional cotton region so far. In addition to the state delivery …
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current paper analyses the nature and effects of state regulation in the cotton sector. In the early 2000s, it was considered … host a "cotton cluster". In the following years, private producers and investors turned away from cotton, and cotton area … and output fell substantially. We argue that the cotton sector performance after 2007 shows how ill-designed regulation …
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economic development. The analysis of the rise of tourism in Egypt during the last three decades suggests that the effects of …
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procurement. A longitudinal comparison of four countries (Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan) in the Middle East and North Africa …
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This article examines the hydrogen partnerships between Germany, the EU and Egypt in the context of the EU's Carbon … Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). Germany, the largest future hydrogen importer in the EU, and Egypt, a country with an … ambitious hydrogen strategy, are developing a partnership to boost renewable hydrogen production in Egypt. However, high funding …
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countries. In Egypt and some other countries it has put food subsidy schemes to the test. This paper develops two comparable … computable general equilibrium models for Egypt and Ukraine which are used to simulate direct and indirect impacts of the food …
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This paper investigates the link between exporting and importing activities and firm performance using a rich dataset on Egyptian and Moroccan firms. We test the export premium, self-selection and learning-by-exporting hypotheses using a number of firm characteristics. Our analysis also includes...
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The study focuses on the period 2004-09 during which Egypt experienced food crisis. The political economy context on …, agricultural, and economic policies in Egypt together with the structural aspects of the food subsidy policies are discussed and …
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Cotton is one of the most important cash crops in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and has had an important role in job … creation, poverty reduction and foreign exchange generation. SSA cotton exporters face particularly three interconnected … prices; how to increase value addition through local processing. This paper analyses the cotton sectors in Burkina Faso …
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