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The article examines the food security implications of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture. It places the Agreement in …
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developing world. It chronicles the patterns of trade and production that contribute to this problem from the colonial period … International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) exacerbate hunger and environmental … earnings needed to finance the import of food and other necessities to fluctuating world market prices for agricultural …
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over 10 percent growth rate, the Ethiopian economy has been one of the fastest growing economies in the world over the last … one and half decades. By any measure agriculture is the dominant economic sector in the country accounting for a sizeable …
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Is there something really new about "land grab" except its extent? What is wrong with an investment contract allowing … and process sugar cane and palm oil into ethanol for Europe and China? Why would the governments signing such investment … contracts not know whether and which foreign investment projects are best for their country, and how to attract them? This …
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Industrialized countries and emerging economies must cooperate in order to decarbonize the emissions-intensive industrial sector and to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. While Germany and the other G7 countries have committed to supporting emerging economies in their efforts to combat...
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hard-budget investment constraints. This article examines practical features of recent trends in energy, poverty, and …
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While the majority of micro studies finds that rural education increases agricultural productivity, various recent cross-country regressions analyzing the determinants of agricultural productivity were only able to detect an insignificant or even surprisingly negative effect of schooling. In...
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While the majority of micro studies finds that rural education increases agricultural productivity, various recent cross-country regressions analysing the determinants of agricultural productivity were only able to detect insignificant or even surprising negative effects of schooling. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010349170