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Roads and Poverty in Rural Laos
Warr, Peter G. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2006
The relationship between poverty incidence and road development is analyzed in this paper, in the context of rural Laos. The results indicate that improving road access is an effective way of reducing rural poverty. Between 1997-98 and 2002-03, rural poverty incidence in Laos declined by almost...
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Asian Rice Policies and WTO Commitments on Domestic Support Under Existing and Proposed Doha Round Provisions
Yang, Min-Hsien; Blandford, David - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011
We examine current rice policies in four major Asian countries (China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan), their relationship to current WTO disciplines, and to those proposed under the Doha negotiations. WTO disciplines have prompted some changes in rice policies, but disciplines of domestic support are...
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QUANTIFYING REGULATORY BARRIERS TO ASIAN-U.S. FOOD TRADE
Caswell, Julie A.; Wang, Joanne - In: Journal of Agribusiness 19 (2001) 2
regulatory barriers without relying on expert opinion, although they fall short of placing a dollar value on the volume of trade …
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Foreign Agricultural Trade of the United States Fiscal Year 1989 Supplement
Warden, Thomas - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1990
This statistical reference summarizes current and historical data on U.S. foreign trade in agricultural products …
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World Indices of Agricultural and Food Production, 1972-81
Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1982
Indices of total and per capita agricultural and food production for 1972-81 are presented for 108 countries and the world. Country ind ices are calcul8 ted by the Laspeyres' base-weighted aggregate formula. Selected production data are given in 1,000 metric tons by country. World agricultural...
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World Indices of Agricultural and Food Production, 1977-86
Goede, Charles - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1988
World food production reached a record high in 1986, exceeding 1985's record by about 1 percent, despite declining food output in Latin America, the United States, Western Europe, and Oceania. World food production generally increased faster than population from 1977-1986. Production of...
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World Agricultural Trade Shares, 1962-85
Timms, Dan; Shane, Mathew - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1987
World food production reached a record high in 1986, exceeding 1985's record by about 1 percent, despite declining food output in Latin America, the United States, Western Europe, and Oceania. World food production generally increased faster than population from 1977 to 1986. Production of...
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World Indices of Agricultural and Food Production, 1973-82
Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1983
Ibdices of total and per capita agricultural and food production for 1973-82 are presented for 109 countries 2nd the world. Country indices are calculated by the L.aspeyres! base-weighted aggregate formula. Selected production data are given in 1,000 metric tons by country. World agricultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010912061
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World Indices of Agricultural and Food Production, 1975-84
Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1985
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Assessing Asia - Sub-Saharan Africa global value chain linkages
Tang, Heiwai; Zeng, Douglas Zhihua; Zeufack, Albert G. - 2020
This paper studies the relationship between Asia's economic engagements in Africa and individual African nations …' participation in global value chains (GVC) over the past two decades. We find that while overall exports from Africa to Asia are … to diversify export portfolios through exporting to Asia. Each African nation has a distinct main trade partner in Asia …
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