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I had the good fortune to grow up in a wonderful area of Jerusalem, surrounded by a diverse range of people: Rabbi Meizel, the communist Sala Marcel, my widowed Aunt Hannah, and the intellectual Yaacovson. As far as I'm concerned, the opinion of such people is just as authoritative for making...
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It is fashionable to criticize economic theory for focusing too much on rationality and ignoring the imperfect and emotional way in which real economic decisions are reached. All of us facing the global economic crisis wonder just how rational economic men and women can be. Behavioral economics...
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Taking into consideration the new Common Agricultural Policy (2014 -2020, for the milk sector, which will have as main component the milk quota removal after 2014, the present paper makes a comparative analysis of the indicators from the milk chain links (agriculture, processing, trade,...
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indicators on the evolution of cultivated surfaces, yields and prices for main crops: the average annual rate of growth …
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observed substantial rise of both food and energy prices at the world stock markets. However, the income of farmers did not … cities (and we observe this tendency globally). Any change in those prices results in suboptimality of existing spatial …
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The study aims to assess the impact of rising prices of rice and fuel on poverty in the Philippines. In particular, the … study confirm that the impact of increasing prices of rice and fuel vary across different groups of households depending on … gainers from the recent increases in the prices of rice and fuel. In response to higher prices, households adopted different …
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prices. Also the environmental impacts of biofuels as an alternative to fossil fuels are quite ambiguous. The literature … prices of biofuels, prices of agricultural commodities used for the biofuel production and prices of the fossil fuels. …
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In this paper we examine the effects of media coverage of commodity prices increases and decreases on the price of the … commodity and how media coverage in other commodities affects prices. We provide evidence of the relationship between media … correlated with the media coverage of up movements, or increase in prices. The direction of the correlation is robust and …
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international food prices and proposed solutions to the crisis. These studies have covered global as well as local food price … high food prices. Commodity price analysis should, however, differentiate between three types of price changes: trends … technological changes. The supply, demand, and market explanations for high and volatile global prices have been differentiated as …
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productivity, prices and labour compensation. The results show that profitability in Finnish manu-facturing is competitive because …
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