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Exploring new interregional opportunities for pharmaceutical supply chains: The potential of Mercosur countries to advance the EU's Global Health Strategy

Salles, Fernanda Cimini; Bayerlein, Michael; … - 2024

associate states of the bloc are Chile, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana and Suriname. Bolivia is currently awaiting final …

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Foreign Exchange Controls, Fiscal and Monetary Policy, and the Black Market Premium

Fardmanesh, Mohsen; Douglas, Seymour - 2003

, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad, during the 1985-1993 period using cointegration, Granger causality, and reduced form methods … them in Guyana and Trinidad, which unlike Jamaica applied infrequent and large adjustments to their official rates. The … changes in the parallel rate, in the cases of Guyana and Trinidad, reflecting the difference in their official exchange rate …

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Much ado about Islam: The political integration of Muslim minorities in Guyana and Suriname

Hirseland, Aline-Sophia - 2024

Differently to large parts of the scholarship assessing the impact of religion on the integration of Muslim minorities in Europe, the case selection employed in the present study allows for controlling relevant sociodemographic variables, namely migration background or rather generation and...

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Socialism without liberation: Land Reclamation Projects in Guinea-Bissau

Kohnert, Dirk - In: Sociologia Ruralis 28 (1988) 2/3, pp. 161-175

One of the outstanding aims of most liberation movements has been to increase the economic well-being of their people, Guinea-Bissau being no exception in this respect. How far has the new Nation State succeeded in fulfilling this aim? A comparative analysis of the implementation of land...

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Policy making and implementation in agriculture: Tanzania's push for irrigated rice

Therkildsen, Ole - 2011

Tanzania's 2005 push to increase rice production by ambitious rural investments in irrigation and by tariff protection of its rice industry from cheap imported subsidised rice has apparently highlevel political support. Yet, the implementation has run into problems: non-compliance with the...

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Policy Options for Rice and Corn Farmers in the Face of Seasonal Climate Variability

Domingo, Sonny N.; Gonzales, Kathrina G.; Mina, Christian D. - 2009

In the face of seasonal climate variability, the smallholder farmers, particularly those in rural communities, are among the most adversely affected. As a way to address this, together with concern on low productivity, the Philippine government has been implementing a range of risk management...

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Profitable Use of SCF in a Policy Context: the Case of Rice Stockholding in the Philippines

Mina, Christian D.; Reyes, Celia M. - 2009

This paper documents the activities of the National Food Authority (NFA), particularly on rice marketing, in realizing its mandates of buying high and selling low. Because the Philippine agriculture is greatly affected by extreme climate events such as El Niño and La Niña, this paper...

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Incorporating Regional Rice Production Models in Rice Importation Simulation Model: a Stochastic Programming Approach

de Guzman, Rosalina G.; Mina, Christian D.; Crean, Jason; … - 2009

In the Philippines, importation has remained as one of the most feasible options for the government to meet the growing demand for rice. It is thus imperative for the government to develop a strategy that would ensure adequate supply and minimum importation costs. One of the critical factors in...

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Labour productivity and rice production in Bangladesh

Selim, Sheikh - 2010

In this paper we examine the significance of labour productivity and use of inputs in explaining technical efficiency of rice production in Bangladesh. We find that higher labour productivity can stimulate high efficiency gains, but increased use of inputs (except land) induces negative marginal...

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Policy reforms and incentives in rice production in Bangladesh

Selim, Sheikh; Parvin, Naima - 2007

We estimate an institutional production function to capture incentive induced growth in total factor productivity (TFP) of rice production in Bangladesh. The incentive component of TFP assists in explaining farmers’ response to incentives due to major policy reforms during 1980s and 1990s.

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