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With globalization, market liberalization, and the rapid development of rural infrastructure, new market opportunities …, farmers, government, and donors. In particular, this work examines contract farming in the Lao PDR and Cambodia and points to … donor resources, private sector endeavors that serve to generate pro-poor growth may be the key to poverty alleviation. …
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This paper shows that greater global spatial correlation of productivities can increase cross-country welfare dispersion by increasing the correlation between a country's productivity and its gains from trade. We causally validate this general-equilibrium prediction using a global climatic...
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inherently international, and their pervasiveness can be seen as a symptom of border-less globalization, excessive liberalism …
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positive impact on society, globalization and the rapid pace of technological development, including robotics and artificial … of economic recession and/or in areas of growing economic and human poverty. A reaction to these developments might be …
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Global regulations, such as social and environmental standards, often result from project-based multi-stakeholder initiatives. Many initiatives fail because key stakeholders cannot be mobilized, or partners are incapable of establishing common ground. We show that local development projects...
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. Specifically, global governance and law with borderless globalization are to blame for the inability to find appropriate solutions … an increasing part of the population who are unable to benefit from such globalization. The related fear of the people … problems are certainly influenced by the negative visions on globalization and liberalism, which neglect to take into account …
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. Specifically, global governance and law with borderless globalization are to blame for the inability to find appropriate solutions … an increasing part of the population who are unable to benefit from such globalization. The related fear of the people … problems are certainly influenced by the negative visions on globalization and liberalism, which neglect to take into account …
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In this paper, we investigate the role of key industry and other stakeholders and their embeddedness in particular national contexts in driving the proliferation and co-evolution of sustainability standards, based on the case of the global coffee industry. We find that institutional conditions...
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This book, through various differently oriented chapters, tries to give an insight on how the European Union and its multilevel model of governance must try to strike a balance between diverging interests and priorities. In particular, the EU and the European states (including the CoE's Members)...
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