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Angesichts der Gaskrise und der russischen Invasion der Ukraine ist der Markthochlauf von Wasserstoff noch dringlicher geworden für die europäische und die deutsche Energiepolitik. Die ehrgeizigen Ziele für grünen Wasserstoff stellen die Europäische Union (EU) und die junge...
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The Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement is envisioned to further boost Japan's ODA to the Philippines …
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Japan has emerged in recent years as a leading donor country to African countries. At one level, Japan’s renewed … that Japan’s motivations to lend capital and technical assistance to African countries are shared by all lending countries …. However, I argue that Japan’s official development policy and, in particular, the Tokyo International Conference on African …
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perspective, some major donors including Japan have been as selective in delivering their aid as some countries well-known for … their selective aid delivery, such as Denmark. Japan has provided higher aid for the countries with better policy and … major donors in Asia, the Pacific, and Europe, including Japan, has proliferated less than the aid programs of most other …
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Shadow prices guide farmers' resource allocations, but for subsistence farmers growing traditional crops, shadow prices may bear little relationship with market prices. We econometrically estimate shadow prices of maize using data from a nationally representative survey of rural households in...
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Economic models of land allocation may lead to expectations for farmer response that surprisingly do not materialize, if market prices fail to reflect the value of farmers' product. Shadow prices rather than market prices explain resource allocation better for farmers who attach significant...
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The Renewable Energy Source Act (EEG) promotes German biogas production in order to substitute fossil fuels, protect the environment, and prevent climate change. As a consequence, green maize production has increased significantly over the last years, causing negative environmental effects on...
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The objectives of this paper are to estimate cost efficiency and investigate factors influencing the cost efficiency of maize-growing smallholders in Mozambique. The data used in this study came from a national random sample of 4,908 smallholder farmers conducted by the Ministry of Agriculture...
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The objective of this paper is to investigate factors influencing the adoption of improved maize seed by smallholder farmers in Mozambique. The data used in this study were obtained from a national random sample of 4,908 smallholder farmers conducted by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural...
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