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Staple food prices in Kenya
Ariga, Joshua; Jayne, Thomas S.; Njukia, Stephen - 2010
Prepared for the COMESA policy seminar on“Variation in staple food prices: Causes, consequence, and policy options”,Maputo, Mozambique, 25-26 January 2010under the Comesa-MSU-IFPRI African Agricultural Marketing Project (AAMP)
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Are Staple Food Markets in Africa Efficient? Spatial Price Analyses and Beyond
Rashid, Shahidur; Minot, Nicholas - 2010
Paper to be presented at the Comesa policy seminar“Food price variability: Causes, consequences, and policy options"on 25-26 January 2010 in Maputo, Mozambiqueunder the Comesa-MSU-IFPRI African Agricultural Markets Project (AAMP)
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445989
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Potential Implications of a Special Safeguard Mechanism in the WTO: the Case of Wheat
Hertel, Thomas W.; Martin, William J.; Leister, Amanda M. - 2010
The Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM) was a key issue in the July 2008 failure to reach agreement in the WTO negotiations under the Doha Development Agenda. It includes both price (P-SSM) and quantity-triggered measures (Q-SSM). This paper uses a stochastic simulation model of the world wheat...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446073
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Rice Trade Policies and Their Implications for Food Security
Durand-Morat, Alvaro; Wailes, Eric J. - 2011
There is a strong linkage between the behavior of the rice market and the state of food security inmany regions around the world, particularly in Asia, as made evident in the 2007-08 commoditycrisis. Rice is a staple for the majority of the population in Asia, where roughly 60% of the close...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444346
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Forced migration and food crises
Carril-Caccia, Federico; Paniagua, Jordi; …
Existe una preocupación creciente por el aumento de la inseguridad alimentaria a escala global. Sin embargo, sus implicaciones económicas son poco conocidas. El presente artículo utiliza un modelo estructural de gravedad para cuantificar el efecto de las crisis alimentarias sobre los flujos...
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Easing the natural gas crisis: Reducing natural gas prices through increased deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency
Wiser, Ryan; Bolinger, Mark; St. Clair, Matt - 2008
growing number of voices are calling for increased diversification of energy supplies. Proponents of renewable energy and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435841
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Restoring Equilibrium to Natural Gas Markets: Can Renewable Energy Help?
Wiser, Ryan; Bolinger, Mark - 2009
growing number of voices are calling for increased diversification of energy supplies. Proponents of renewable energy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436212
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Workforce diversity in a research and development environment -- a model that works
McDavid, S. - 2008
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Engineering Directorate is in the third year of a diversity process that has changed the culture of the organization in many ways. This work outlines progress toward realizing the LLNL Engineering Diversity Model. Currently recommendations are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437206
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The domestic natural gas and oil initiative. Energy leadership in the world economy
2008
Two key overarching goals of this Initiative are enhancing the efficiency and competitiveness of U.S. industry and reducing the trends toward higher imports. These goals take into account new Federal policies that reflect economic needs, including economic growth, deficit reduction, job creation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437378
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Bank risk and return: The impact of bank non-interest income
Williams, Barry; Prather, Laurie - 2010
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider the impact on bank risk of portfolio diversification between … performance variables, this analysis compares the benefits of diversification across different bank types relative to margin … documents that fee-based income is riskier than margin income but offers diversification benefits to bank shareholders. While …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441628