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certification on the marketing performances of currently certified lychee farmers. While our results do suggest a positive average … impact of certification on both the quantities sold and the prices received by certified producers, we shall see that this …
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with small-scale farmers and have assisted them in achieving GlobalGap certification. Indeed, in contrast with countries … where farmers seeking certification have to pay for it, in Madagascar certification costs have been entirely supported by … understanding potential mechanisms through which Malagasy farmers may benefit from GlobalGap standards and assessing consequences on …
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financial support to the exporters dried up. Based on a natural experiment, we assess the impact of GlobalGap certification on … of certification on both the quantities sold and the prices received by certified producers, we shall see that this …
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Many of the present difficulties of the world economy have been blamed on the two oil-price explosions of the 1970s. Professor Chichilnisky shows that, at least in the case of the oil-importing developing countries, the negative effects have been overestimated. In fact, in some respects the oil...
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data from Pakistan to assess the effects of ISO 9000 certification on export sales and share of exports (relative to …, there is limited work on the impact of standards on the performance of developing country exporting firms. This paper uses … domestic and export sales) for textiles and the agro-food sector. As certification is not randomly assigned but there is 'self …
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La thèse s’inscrit dans le contexte actuel de régulation internationale de la sécurité sanitaire des aliments. Elle se situe au croisement de la théorie du commerce international, de l’économie industrielle et de l’économie du développement. Il s’agit d’évaluer les conditions...
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Using data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) we analyze non-employment episodes for immigrants from developing countries and compare their situation to that of immigrants from more developed countries and Canadian-born individuals between 1996 and 2006. The methods used...
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Examines the effects on employment and wages of the phasing out of trade quotas implemented under the World Trade Organization's Agreement on Textiles and Clothing, the Multifibre Agreement (MFA). Includes cases studies from seven developing countries, the USA and the European Union.
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Uses a gravity trade model to estimate the effects of child labour and education on exports from 1993 to 1999 …, evaluating total exports, total manufacturing exports and manufacturing exports broken down by labour and skill intensity of … education is good for exports, including for unskilled labour-intensive manufacturing exports for which results are generally …
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