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The hungry world : America's cold war battle against poverty in Asia
Cullather, Nick - 2010
Food was a critical front in the Cold War battle for Asia, "Where Communism goes, hunger follows" was the slogan of … Malthusian famines, saving billions of lives, and jump-starting Asia's economic revival. Bono and Bill Gates hail it as a model … people eat and grow food. The ambition to lead Asia into an age of plenty grew alongside development theories that targeted …
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The hungry world : America's cold war battle against poverty in Asia
Cullather, Nick - 2011 - Online-Ausg.
The world food problem -- Mexico's way out -- A continent of peasants -- We shall release the waters -- A very big, very poor country -- Parable of seeds -- You can't eat steel -- The meaning of famine -- The conquest of hunger -- Present at the recreation
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Aufsätze und Reden
Myrdal, Gunnar - 1971 - 1. Aufl.
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Can numerical models estimate indirect land-use change?
Brunelle, Thierry; Dumas, Patrice - 2012
Motivated by the conclusions from various modelling studies, modifications to the bioenergy sector regulations are under way in Europe and in the USA to account for emissions from indirect land-use change (ILUC). Despite their influence on the policy-making, evaluations of the capacity of...
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Is the U.S. Losing its Competitiveness in the Global Chicken Markets : A Spatial Equilibrium Analysis
Djunaidi, Harjanto - 2005
Though the last forty years of data showed that the U.S. chicken export growth was still positive, but it has slowed in more recent years. Other countries such as Brazil, the U.S. main competitor in the global chicken trade was able to expand its market shares in recent years. Simulation results...
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The role of agriculture in "catching up" : a Gerschenkronian perspective
Timmer, Charles Peter - In: Diverse development paths and structural transformation …, (pp. 68-90). 2016
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The African Growth and Opportunity Act : The Perils of Pursuing African Development Through U.S. Trade Law
McCormick, Ryan - 2010
Six years after enactment, the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) remains the cornerstone of U.S. economic policy toward sub-Saharan Africa. Has AGOA fulfilled its promise to serve as a catalyst for African economic development? The author examines the legislative history that led to...
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Capital taxation, long-run growth, and bequests
Kunze, Lars - 2009
It has been shown that higher capital taxes can have a growth-enhancing effect when combined with a revenue-compensating cut in wage taxes (Uhlig and Yanagawa 1996; European Economic Review 40, 1521-1540) or with an expansion in productivity-increasing public services (Rivas 2003; European Economic...
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Government spending shocks and the multiplier : new evidence from the US based on natural disasters
Yang, Weonho; Fidrmuc, Jan; Ghosh, Sugata - 2012
The literature on estimating macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy requires suitable instruments to identify exogenous and unanticipated spending shocks. So far, the instrument of choice has been military build-ups. This instrument, however, largely limits the analysis to the US as few other...
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Natural disasters, government spending, and the fiscal multiplier
Fidrmuc, Jan; Ghosh, Sugata; Yang, Weonho - 2015
We estimate the fiscal multiplier associated with shocks to government spending. We consider increases in government spending in the U.S. states in the wake of natural disasters to capture spending shocks that are both unexpected and unrelated to the preceding state of the economy. We find that...
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