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The international Monitory Fund (IMF) has been working with Sudan since 1997 to implement macroeconomic reforms including a managed float of the exchange rate (EXR). The IMF sees the EXR flexibility as key to safeguard and rebuild foreign exchange reserves and essential to meet the international...
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competitiveness have been analyzed. After entering into the European Union by the Central European Countries, the importance of …
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market opportunities and competitiveness status. Such an assessment however, requires a clear understanding of the … multifaceted concept of competitiveness and its major determinants. This paper seeks to contribute to the regional discussion of … competitiveness, through the exploration of the theoretical and empirical dimensions of the concept within the context of CARICOM …
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2009 report begins with a special feature which describes indicators to benchmark competitiveness of the Canadian … competitiveness in the sector. It continues by reviewing each segment of the system, going upstream from consumers to food …
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the trends and factors affecting the sector's long term prosperity and competitiveness. The report is a compilation of …
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This report is the second chapter of the final report prepared by the Federal/Provincial/Territorial (FPT) Working Group (WG) on Economic Analysis at the request of FPT Assistant Deputy Ministers (ADMs), in a joint FPT effort to study the challenges and opportunities facing the agriculture and...
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market opportunities and competitiveness status. Such an assessment however, requires a clear understanding of the … multifaceted concept of competitiveness and its major determinants. This paper seeks to contribute to the regional discussion of … competitiveness, through the exploration of the theoretical and empirical dimensions of the concept within the context of CARICOM …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005039352
The 1971 and 1973 official devaluations of the U.S. dollar have often been cited as a pivotal cause for the enormous price rises in agricultural products in 1972 and 1973. This article presents two studies that test the hypothesis that exchange rate changes have a significant effect on the...
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A theoretical model is reviewed and used to evaluate the effects of currency devaluation or revaluation on production …, consumption, trade, and price in both exporting and importing countries. The model is applied to the effects of devaluation on the … agricultural sector, when supply and demand are inelastic. Based on the analysis, devaluation will have only a small impact on …
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The Canadian Farm Products Agencies Act (2012) requires that comparative advantage be used to guide the allocation of new quota under supply management. This requirement, however, has not been met in practice. Agricultural economists have proposed several ways of making this legal requirement...
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