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Diaspora and development
Irudaya Rajan, Sebastian (ed.) - 2014 - 1. publ.
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Energy Security and Economics of Indian Biofuel Strategy in a Global Context
Gunatilake, Herath M.; Roland-Holst, David; Sugiyarto, … - 2015
food. For developing countries like India, which imports over 75% of its crude oil, fossil fuels pose two risks — global … warming pollution and negative economic impacts of oil price hikes. This paper examines India’s options for managing energy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014042627
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WTO and Agricultural Trade - Some Issues and Perspectives
Rena, Ravinder - 2015
In the Uruguay Round Agreement, the rules governing agricultural trade were changed fundamentally. Members have agreed to convert all non-tariff agricultural barriers (NTBs) to ordinary tariffs, to bind all agricultural tariffs, and to subject them to reductions. Members have also agreed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014210277
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A Review of Novel Materials and Technologies for the Sustainable Development of Microalgae Biofuel
He, Peng - 2016
Recently, microalgae has been identified as a renewable fuel source and shown advantages over other biomass-based fuels in terms of low natural resource utilization, low environmental footprint and high energy efficiency. However, with current technologies, scaling up the production of algal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995539
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Transmission of World Commodity Prices to Domestic Commodity Prices in India and China
Imai, Katsushi S. - 2008
prices in India and China. The focus is on short and medium-run adjustment processes using an error correction specification … in China than in India. Second, the adjustment is larger for wheat, maize and rice than for fruits and vegetables in both … India and China. In fact, the adjustment is the weakest for vegetables in both countries. Third, while most of the domestic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012723191
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Towards an Urban Land Resource Curse? A Fresh Perspective on a Long-Standing Issue
Zinnbauer, Dieter - 2015
Urban land governance is one of the central challenges not just for urban but also more broadly for global development in times of rapid urbanisation. This paper advances a fresh perspective to look at urban land by exploring to what extent it could be characterised as a resource curse problem....
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Biofuel's Sustainable Development under the Trilemma of Energy, Environment and Economy
Liu, Heqing - 2015
Biofuel helps to overcome energy shortages, and to improve the environment, as well as to increase job opportunity. So, on the one hand, biofuel solves the above mentioned problems; on the other hand, it brings new challenges to the fields of energy, environment and economy. The development of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029398
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Posh spice or scary spice? : resource booms, wealth, and human capital across ages
Boone, Christopher; Kaila, Heidi; Sahn, David E. - 2024
We examine the impact of a six-fold increase in the global vanilla price on smallholder vanilla-farming households in Madagascar. The price increase leads to sizable gains in household assets and significant improvements in adult psychological well-being, cognitive performance, and optimism...
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Agricultural Development for Inclusive Growth : A Strategy for Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
Sharma, Shalendra D. - 2017
One of the Millennium Development Goals set by the United Nations is to reduce the global level of “extreme poverty” (the roughly 1.5 billion people whose income is less than $1 a day) by half by 2015. How can such a goal be reached? This paper argues that since the vast majority of the...
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Corporate Concentration and Technological Change in the Global Seed Industry
Bonny, Sylvie - 2017
In the past three decades, the seed sector has experienced, and is now again experiencing, corporate concentration trends. The fallout of this consolidation is the subject of numerous concerns. However, the seed sector is rather poorly understood. Thus, it is useful to understand it better and...
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