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Governance and net-import dependency on food and agricultural products in Sub-Saharan Africa: Does any causality exist?
Mwangi, Esther N.; Chen, Fuzhong; Njoroge, Daniel - In: European Journal of Government and Economics (EJGE) 10 (2021) 1, pp. 80-104
governance and net-import dependency on food and agricultural products for 25 SSA countries during the period 1995 …-2015. Principal component analysis is employed to develop a governance index based on the six worldwide governance indicators and a … a higher governance index is correlated with a lower net-import dependency ratio and the relationship is statistically …
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Governance and net-import dependency on food and agricultural products in Sub-Saharan Africa : does any causality exist?
Mwangi, Esther N.; Chen, Fuzhong; Njoroge, Daniel - In: European journal of government and economics : EJGE 10 (2021) 1, pp. 80-104
governance and net-import dependency on food and agricultural products for 25 SSA countries during the period 1995 …-2015. Principal component analysis is employed to develop a governance index based on the six worldwide governance indicators and a … a higher governance index is correlated with a lower net-import dependency ratio and the relationship is statistically …
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The Impact of Exchange Rate Changes on Disaggregated Agricultural Output in Nigeria: A Two-Stage-Least-Squares Approach
Yaqub, Jameelah Omolara - In: International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied … 6 (2013) 1, pp. 75-89
Agriculture was the mainstay of the Nigerian economy prior to independence and immediately after. Agriculture however, has suffered persistent decline since the 1970s with the exchange rate policy being implicated in the misfortune of this sector. Earlier studies on the effect of exchange rate...
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Rural class differentiation in Nigeria: Theory and practice - a quantitative approach in the case of Nupeland
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Africa Spectrum 14 (1979) 3, pp. 295-315
The knowledge of social stratification within the peasantry is a decisive precondition of sustainable economic and political measures for an effective support of agricultural production in least developed countries. This is one of the reasons why also in Nigeria social scientist focus on the...
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FTA effects on agricultural trade with matching approaches
Lee, GaSeul; Lim, Song Soo - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 9 (2015) 2015-43, pp. 1-26
While the trade effect of free trade agreements (FTAs) is a global issue, little research has examined the economic effects of trade liberalization on agricultural products with robust empirical methods. In this study, propensity score matching for controlling selection bias is used to examine...
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Russia's food security and climate change: Looking into the future
Kiselev, Sergey; Romashkin, Roman; Nelson, Gerald C.; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-39, pp. 1-66
Global climate change presents long-term risks to agriculture. In general, global climate change is expected to positively affect Russian agriculture. In high and middle latitudes, global warming would expand the growing season. Acreages of agricultural crops may expand toward the north,...
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Knowing where organic markets move next: An analysis of developing countries in the pineapple market
Kleemann, Linda - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 8 (2014) 2014-14, pp. 1-34
As consumers' demand for organic products grows, selling organic products potentially opens up profitable market participation options for farmers in developing countries. This paper studies two aspects of profitability for the producers. It uses hedonic demand theory and empirical analysis to...
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Causes and Consequences of Rising Food Prices
Erber, Georg; Petrick, Martin; von Schlippenbach, Vanessa - In: Weekly Report 4 (2008) 12, pp. 73-79
Since mid 2007 there has been a dramatic rise in prices for basic foods such as internationally traded varieties of rice, corn and wheat. At the moment, it is rather impossible to estimate how far speculation in the commodity markets has contributed to this development. Irrespective of this, a...
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Quality Standards for Fruits and Vegetables: Help or Hindrance for Rural Development?
von Schlippenbach, Vanessa; Teichmann, Isabel - In: Weekly Report 5 (2009) 21, pp. 145-153
own quality standards. The growing significance of such private standards could help to guarantee the functioning of … standards offer a reasonable alternative: they create transparency and equal rules for all market participants. …
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Ursachen und Konsequenzen der steigenden Nahrungsmittelpreise
Erber, Georg; Petrick, Martin; von Schlippenbach, Vanessa - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 26, pp. 357-363
Seit Mitte 2007 sind die Preise für Grundnahrungsmittel wie Reis, Mais und Weizen bei international gehandelten Sorten dramatisch gestiegen. In welchem Umfang zu dieser Entwicklung Spekulationen an den Rohstoffmärkten beigetragen haben, lässt sich nicht beziffern. Unabhängig davon setzt eine...
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