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Conflict, Food Price Shocks, and Food Insecurity: The experience of Afghan households

D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012

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Solvency and Performance of French Wineries in Times of Declining Sales: Co‐operatives and Corporations

Declerck, Francis; Viviani, Jean-Laurent - 2010

The paper assesses the ability of French wineries to prevail over the crisis of French wine in the years 2000.Corporations are distinguished from co‐operatives:Over the 2000‐2006 period in spite of sales fluctuations, French wineries did not increase their financial debtlevel substantially....

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Solvency and Performance of French Wineries in Times of Declining Sales: Co‐operatives and Corporations

Declerck, Francis; Viviani, Jean-Laurent - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2010

The paper assesses the ability of French wineries to prevail over the crisis of French wine in the years 2000. Corporations are distinguished from co‐operatives: Over the 2000‐2006 period in spite of sales fluctuations, French wineries did not increase their financial debt level...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008853593

Socio-psychological barriers to peace making: An empirical examination within the Israeli Jewish Society

Halperin, Eran; Bar-Tal, Daniel - In: Journal of Peace Research 48 (2011) 5, pp. 637-651

Socio-psychological barriers play a major role in the continuation of intractable conflicts. They are responsible for … depicts the functioning of the socio-psychological barriers to conflict resolution, an empirical study was conducted among a …

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Barriers to indigenous enterprise development on communally owned land

Nikolakis, William - In: Global Business and Economics Review 12 (2010) 1/2, pp. 85-99

This research focuses on understanding barriers to indigenous enterprise development (IED) on inalienable and communal … opinion leaders on IED in the region. The barriers identified to IED in this context are: mistrust and conflict, socio … typically confirm those barriers to IED identified in the literature. However, this study illustrates that these barriers impact …

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Farm Sector Balance Sheet, Including Operator Households, 1960-89, and Excluding Operator Households, 1974-89, by Sales Class

Erickson, Kenneth; Kubica, Janusz; Hacklander, Duane; … - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1991

This report furnishes the latest farm sector balance sheet estimates developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service. These estimates incorporate numerous revisions in estimating procedures and changes in available data. National estimates of assets, debt, and equity,...

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The Geography of Natural Resources, Ethnic Inequality and Development

Lessmann, Christian; Steinkraus, Arne - 2017

We study whether the spatial distribution of natural resources across different ethnic groups within countries impede spatial inequality, national economic performance, and the incidence of armed conflict. By providing a theoretical rent-seeking model and analysing a set of geocoded data for...

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Going Global: Differential Accumulation and the Great U-turn in South Africa and Israel

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - In: Review of Radical Political Economics 33 (2001) 1, pp. 21-55

This paper offers a new theoretical approach for comparing the current political-economic U-turns in South Africa and Israel. Our principal focus is on a revised notion of capital, emphasizing the central role of differential accumulation by dominant capital groups. We further distinguish...

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From War Profits to Peace Dividends: The New Political Economy of Israel

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - In: Capital & Class (1996) 60, pp. 61-94

Since the late 1980s, Israel has been undergoing a profound transformation, characterized by reconciliation with its Arab neighbours and attempts to reintegrate into the regional economy, a transition from a militarized economy to open markets, and a decline of the collectivist ethos in favour...

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Differential Accumulation: Toward a New Political Economy of Capital

Nitzan, Jonathan - In: Review of International Political Economy 5 (1998) 2, pp. 169-217

Existing theories of capital, neo-classical as well as Marxist, are anchored in the material sphere of production and consumption. This article offers a new analytical framework for capital as a crystallization of power. The relative nature of power requires accumulation to be measured in...

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