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This paper studies the welfare impact of alternative scenarios of trade protectionism and liberalization in Argentina … long run effects are negative. On the other hand liberalization scenarios tend to have short term negative effects but … poorest households. Liberalization scenarios improve households' welfare in the long run with a slight pro rich bias. …
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In the October – December quarter of 2012, the business climate index declined to 4.5 points having recorded a score of 8 points in the previous (July – September) quarter. The deterioration of business environment perceptions emanated from elevated risks arising from the budget support...
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the assumption of trade liberalization. Efficiency improvement experiments are implemented by augmenting the efficiency … agricultural exports and increase their strength to face the challenges of liberalization. …
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This 2008 report provides an economic overview of the Canadian agriculture and agri-food system. It is meant to be a multi-purpose reference document to provide: an introduction to the agriculture and agri-food system; a snapshot of structural changes that are occurring throughout the system in...
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We develop a measure of consumer welfare by approximating Hicksian compensating variation as a function of all commodity prices and compensated price elasticities. The unique feature of this approach is that all direct- and cross-commodity effects of a demand system are incorporated into the...
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An attempt to analyse the marketing chain for the pig meat from a pig farm through meat processing to the market with the background of new market conditions in the EU-27 countries has been made. Components mentioned above and, especially, their stage of development have been discussed in a...
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The most important challenges of food policy and public health in the 21 Century include fighting high levels of obesity and food waste. Both issues are linked to the necessity of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and inhibiting climate change. Diet modification towards a more sustainable and...
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The paper presents the brief information, based on literature, about the organic production of fruits in the world and in Poland. In order to assess the situation on the organic fruit market comparative analysis of the prices of apples and strawberries were presented. In the study the prices of...
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The accession of Poland to the European Union turned out to be beneficial for the Polish agriculture as well as for Polish food processing plants. On the contrary to the previous anxiety, the Polish market was not flooded with the merchandise from the European Union countries. Similarly, a mass...
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Pork meat plays an important role in the Polish, European and global market. In the article volume of swines’ production, consumption of pork and also the data connected with export and import this kind of meat in 2000-2012 were characterized. In 2012 pork production occupied a dominant...
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