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Numerous microfinance initiatives around the world aim to alleviate poverty in developing countries. However, debate persists about their effectiveness and sustainability – a concern for transnational corporations and the international business community, which contribute about $9.4 billion to...
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ecological agriculture was made. Economic efficiency has been estimated in terms of applying modern technology to the production …
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emissions. This has led the media, policy makers and the public to overlook industrial agriculture, one of the principal … contributors to global greenhouse emissions. Industrial agriculture – particularly industrial livestock activity – emits … oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4). In fact, greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture far exceed those from transportation. Yet …
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Organization (FAO), and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) produce long-term agricultural projections for key indicators of …, and China for rice and wheat. We evaluate the accuracy by examining the projection error, including the magnitude of bias … increases. Both agencies underestimate wheat projections in the European Union and China. USDA projections generally outperform …
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Es werden 24 der bedeutendsten Agrarländer der Erde portraitiert, indem unter anderem die wirtschaftlichen, klimatischen und geographischen Bedingungen dargestellt werden. Weitere Themen bilden die Agrarstruktur, die Infrastruktur und die Situation in Handel und Verarbeitung. Ebenso werden die...
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The objective of this of the study is to evaluate the role of financial development, Agriculture raw materials and the … extent of openness to trade in economic development of Pakistan for the period 1980-2012, by using Vector Auto Regressive … (VAR) model. Empirical results showed that there exist a long-run relationship between financial development, agriculture …
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