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Research efforts towards new energy sources and towards the efficiency of energy use will be vital to reducing CO2 abatement costs in the long term. Can such efforts be induced by price instruments? Economists often cite induced technological change as a possible consequence of environmental...
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Recent changes in U.S. energy policy have prompted the growth of the bio energy market. The ability to quickly enter and respond to the opportunities of this market is critical to an agribusiness’ success. Understanding entry into this rapidly growing bio energy market,however, is not well...
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This article investigates the relationship between optimal gear selectivity and effort cost in the fishing industry. We first show that optimal selectivity depends negatively on the level of effort cost, but that this relationship is not continuous. Optimal selectivity switches when real effort...
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Highly competitive situation in Information and Communication technology (ICT) maintenance industry requires a precise analysis of all important factors and carefully defined company strategy which addresses each of these aspects. This paper presents a resource based analysis of family run SME,...
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Commercial rice imports have accounted for approximately 61%, food aid in rice accounted for about 2%, and domestic rice accounted for some 37% per annum of rice consumption in Ghana over the four years between 2000 and 2003. Compared to the 1990s, these figures show a gradual decline in the...
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Fisheries throughout the world have long been subject to overfishing and excess capacity, which has generated substantial and increasing concern about biological and economic performance ramifications. These problems in part stem from substantial investment in technical improvements to boats and...
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Guided by the frame work of a household model under credit market failure, this paper aims at investigating the impact of access to credit on the adoption of hybrid maize among households that vary in their credit constraints. The data used in the study is from Malawi collected by the...
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Die Entscheidungsfindung in der Bioenergie-Branche wird maßgeblich bestimmt durch Energiekosten, Preisentwicklungen im Nahrungsmittelanbau sowie Fördermaßnahmen für die Produktion und energetische Nutzung der Biomasse. Eine Veränderung dieser Faktoren beeinflusst die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit...
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In Deutschland genießen die Energie- und Klimapolitik und mit ihr die erneuerbaren Energien bereits seit längerer Zeit eine erhöhte Aufmerksamkeit. Von politischer Seite wurden weitreichende Förderungsmaßnahmen und Anreize zur Investition in erneuerbare Energien geschaffen. Aufgrund der...
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