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Based on a case study of the burgeoning high-end ("Third Wave") coffee market in the United States, this discussion …, and marketers have created a new lexicon of quality for coffee, one tied to narratives of provenance and exclusivity that … creates much of the value added in the coffee trade. This disadvantages smallholding coffee farmers who are heavily invested …
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This paper assesses the existence and extent of transition cost for the OECD economies associated with the increasing Chinese competition in the export markets. We find that intensified Chinese competition is an important factor in explaining structural changes not only within the manufacturing...
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many countries have actually been deindustrializing. This paper analyses deindustrialization experiences internationally … importance of robust industrial policies if countries are to move from deindustrialization to reindustrialization. …
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Academic analyses and impact evaluation studies produced by the international development community almost all conclude that the microfinance model has made an important net contribution to the economic and social recovery of post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereafter Bosnia). However, as we now...
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This work analyzes the phenomenon of premature deindustrialization for Colombia and for other seven Latin American …
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coffee production, exports and price. Our empirical specification is consistent with an economic model of the coffee market … study of the effects of unpredictable innovations to ENSO on the Colombian coffee price, while controlling for shocks …) might be beneficial for production and exports and tend to decrease the price of coffee. On the contrary, La Niña conditions …
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producer-level effects of organic coffee certification in southeast Colombia. We find that certification improves coffee …
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Ethiopian montane rainforests are economically valuable repositories of biodiversity, especially of wild Coffea Arabica populations, and they are vanishing at accelerating rates. Our research results confirm theory which explains biodiversity loss by diverging private and social net benefits...
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the household or the outcomes of these investments. Results using data from Colombia suggest that family size has negative …
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This paper studies migration decisions of very poor households in an environment with a high level of violence. By matching detailed retrospective data on violence levels in Colombian rural municipalities with a household survey collected for the evaluation of the 'Familias en Acción' welfare...
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