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The purpose of this study was to determine the incentives of companies in either sponsoring or not sponsoring professional sports teams. The review of literature regarding the identification of incentives to sponsor professional sports teams revealed a lack of attention to this aspect....
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Paraphrasing the 1996 World Food Summit definition, “food insecurity” exists when “not” all people, “not” at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food. In this perspective, our study examines the relation between spatial inequality and...
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The NEPAD Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) has been endorsed by African Heads of State …. The program aims at stimulating agriculture-led development to alleviate poverty and hunger, and achieve sustainable food … country received 2.5 percent growth as a result of spillover. Finally, our results suggest that convergence dynamics is much …
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mostram a existência de convergência sigma. This article has the objective to accomplisher by the hypothesis test convergence … absolut, conditional and sigma convergence of GDP growth per capita in the farming field for the brasilian states in the … forward to an absolut convergence porecess, and when conditioned to the human capital its becomes more. However, the estimates …
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In Ghate & Wright Journal of Development Economics, vol. 99 (2012) pp 58–67, it was noted that there was considerable variation in the extent to which different Indian states participated in the Great Indian Growth Turnaround. In this paper it is investigated whether there was any...
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To reduce child under nutrition in India, convergence from various sectors are required. The framework notes that … issues related to convergence must be resolved in relation to three major steps in the policy process: policy formulation …, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation. There are many questions related to convergence that must be asked at each of these …
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This paper estimates the yields for five grains in 33 provinces of Spain in the mid-18th century. The results show that yields were higher in the north of the country, and that the most fertile provinces of Spain were not far behind the most advanced agricultural regions of the world. Average...
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This paper examines the relation between the business cycle and convergence in levels of total factor productivity (TFP …) across states. First, we find evidence of convergence in TFP levels across the different phases of the business cycle, but … the speed of convergence was much greater during periods of contraction in economic activity than during periods of …
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-intensive production (agriculture). Many of China's agricultural provinces suffer from oversupplies of labor, which has led large numbers … (the agricultural club) show no evidence of convergence and appear to have been left behind in terms of economic …
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