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Brazil's first ethanol futures contract, which was implemented in 2000, failed to offer sufficient liquidity to attract market agents. The purpose of this study is to determine whether the new ethanol futures contracts launched by BMF-BOVESPA in 2010 meet the requirements to render them...
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shock did not spread widely to other regions. Even in the MERCOSUR and SAARC, due to limited goods exports exposure to the …
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skilled-labour intensive exports sector or in the relatively unskilled-labour intensive domestic sector. We show that, by … affecting the technological-knowledge bias, subsidies explain the simultaneous rise in the exports sector, the skill wage … score matching approach to shed light upon the causal nexus between production-related subsidies and exports. Our empirical …
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Argentina -almost 3 million km2- is linked economically, socially and politically to the rural production and trade. First, it was linked through livestock (jerky, fat, and leather), and by the end of nineteenth century through extensive agriculture, joined to rail expansion and massive...
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This paper proposes that international donors seeking to support Haiti’s agricultural sector and provide food to those in need could help Haiti become more self-sufficient by purchasing the entire Haitian rice crop over the next two years. The paper finds that buying up all of Haiti’s rice...
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incomes. Point estimates of the effect of real exchange rate volatility on the volume of exports are consistently negative and …
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Asparagus is the star product among non-traditional agricultural exports (NTAXs) in Peru. The export of preserved … asparagus has expanded since the end of the 1980s. Although there was some stagnation in the mid-1990s, exports of fresh … case of preserved asparagus, Peruvian exports expanded because of Peru’s competitiveness, which originated from favorable …
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data on exports for a recent time period over a large set of nations. We ask whether various types of exports (e … manufacturing exports are statistically insignificant, agricultural and fuel exports affect corruption significantly. Our findings … for fuel exports support previous research, as well as uniquely demonstrate that the impact of fuel exports is sensitive …
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This paper investigates the effects of ethnic violence on export-oriented firms and their workers. Following the disputed 2007 Kenyan presidential election, export volumes of flower firms affected by the ensuing violence dropped by 38 percent and worker absence exceeded 50 percent. Large firms...
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Can Carbon Labeling Be Development Friendly? Recommendations on How to Improve Emerging Schemes
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