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that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …
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. Workplace effects, however, reduce the wage gap by 14.5% in Canada and increase the gap by 3.2% in Britain. …
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traditionally used in forestry economics reflect. This essay analyses some challenges of accounting for such complexity. When forest …
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The Charter for Wood 2.0 (CfW 2.0) aims to increase the contribution of forestry and forest-based industries to climate … change mitigation; maintain and improve value creation and competitiveness of the forestry and wood cluster; and conserve …
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contradict conventional wisdom in forestry, we believe that this report contributes valuable insights to the continued efforts to … further sustainable forestry in Tanzania. We begin by outlining the global ideals of participatory forestry. We then present … before concluding with some general recommendations for improving participatory forestry policy and guidelines. …
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evaluated the sales expectations of forestry related biotechnological applications within the domestic forestry cluster itself …, other potential domestic industries and global export markets. The third step assessed whether the development of forestry … represents the beginning of the value chain : forestry applications. Module 2 consists of the development of wood products …
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We present results from a field experiment testing the gift-exchange hypothesis inside a tree-planting firm paying its workforce incentive contracts. Firm managers told a crew of tree planters they would receive a pay raise for one day as a result of a surplus not attributable to past planting...
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the proportion of aggregate employment, the aggregate fixed capital stock, and G.N.P. that may be attributed to Canada …'s energy, fishing, forestry, and mining industries. Direct contributions to intensive, or per capita performance are measured … evidence, I argue that Canada's resource industries were making a substantial positive impact on aggregate economic performance …
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This paper uses highly detailed, quarterly data for five major industrialized economies to estimate the impact of macroeconomic fluctuations on import protection policies over 1988:Q1 - 2010:Q4. First, estimates on a pre-Great Recession sample of data provide evidence of two key relationships....
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