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International co-operation for agricultural development and food and nutrition security: New institutional arrangements for related public goods

von Braun, Joachim - 2013

Following an overview on the fast changing global context of agriculture, and food and nutrition security, this paper provides a framework for identifying the set of essential international public goods for a well-functioning world agriculture and food system: natural resource management related...

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Background Paper: Research and Development and Extension Services in Agriculture and Food Security

Wesley, Annie; Faminow, Merle - 2014

Investments in agricultural research and extension have consistently demonstrated high rates of return in Asia and the Pacific. However, the recent global food crisis exposed the vulnerability of food supply systems and reversed many past achievements in the fight against hunger and...

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Market Access and Domestic Support Measures

Fontagné, Lionel - In: CESifo Forum 04 (2003) 3, pp. 3-10

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Are biofuels good for African development? An analytical framework with evidence from Mozambique and Tanzania

Arndt, Channing; Msangi, Siwa; Thurlow, James - 2010

Many low income countries in Africa are optimistic that producing biofuels domestically will not only reduce their dependence on imported fossil fuels, but also stimulate economic development, particularly in poorer rural areas. Skeptics, on the other hand, view biofuels as a threat to food...

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Globalization and State Capacity: The Philippines

Patalinghug, Epictetus - 2003

The arrival of globalization has brought about a lot of challenges for nations to meet. This paper takes a look at the … capability of the Philippine state to cope with the demands of globalization. It documents the rules, laws, regulations … state's readiness for globalization. The study will cover three aspects of state capacity that contribute to the promotion …

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Technological innovation, entrepreneurship and development

Audretsch, David B.; Sanders, Mark - 2009

Industrialization has long been seen as the answer to underdevelopment and poverty. First this led countries to follow protectionist import substitution policies but as these failed developing countries have opened up to trade and FDI and tried to follow strategies of export driven...

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Vietnam as a role model for development

Thoburn, John - 2009

Vietnam's development performance since the early 1990s has been one of the strongest in the world, following the introduction of its doi moi (renovation) economic reform programme in 1986. The core of Vietnam's economic strategy has been rapid integration into the world economy, with a...

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Globalization crises, trade, and development in Vietnam

Abbott, Philip; Tarp, Finn - 2011

globalization crises - the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis and the 2008-09 great recession, financial crisis and collapse of global …

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Philippines: Food Security versus Agricultural Exports?

Tiongco, Marites M.; Francisco, Kris A. - 2011

This paper tries to characterize the current situation in the Philippines with respect to the goal of the Aquino administration to be food secure and self-sufficient in rice by 2016. Specifically, it aims to address the question: "Should the government continue its efforts in increasing rice...

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Regional wheat price effects of extreme weather events and wheat export controls in Russia and Ukraine

Götz, Linde; Djuric, Ivan; Nivievskyi, Oleg - 2016

This paper further builds on the price transmission model framework of existing studies to identify domestic wheat price effects of wheat export controls. We explicitly take the fact into account that a harvest failure causes domestic price effects as well. Moreover, the analysis at the regional...

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