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Food Price Inflation as Redistribution: Towards a New Analysis of Corporate Power in the World Food System (Preprint)
Baines, Joseph - In: New Political Economy 19 (2014) 1, pp. 79-112
This paper outlines the contours of a new research agenda for the analysis of food price crises. By weaving together a detailed quantitative examination of changes in corporate profit shares with a qualitative appraisal of the restructuring in business control over the organisation of society...
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Accumulating through Food Crisis? Farmers, Commodity Traders and the Distributional Politics of Financialization
Baines, Joseph - In: Review of International Political Economy 24 (2017) 3, pp. 497-537
This paper considers the domestic and international ramifications of financialization and grain price instability in the US agri-food sector. It finds that during the recent period of high and volatile prices, the average income of large-scale farms reached the earnings threshold of the top...
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Biofuel supply chain risk mitigation strategy framework: Expert interview based approach
Wachyudi, Tedy; Daryanto, Arief; Machfud, Machfud; … - In: Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management (JIEM) 13 (2020) 1, pp. 179-194
Purpose: The purpose of this case study is to develop and framework supply chain characteristics and risk mitigation strategies in the context of biodiesel downstream supply chain. Design/methodology/approach: This study employs an expert interview-based approach as a qualitative approach with a...
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Challenges and prospects of renewable energy in Nigeria: A case of bioethanol and biodiesel production
Adewuyi, Adewale - In: Energy Reports 5 (2019), pp. 1408-1419
Achieving an affordable clean energy in accordance to the sustainable development goal (SDG 7) is a challenge in Nigeria and other nations in Africa. Most of the currently used energy strategies are either not sustainable or poorly maintained. Nigeria is a major exporter of fossil fuel but...
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Enhancing carbohydrate productivity from Nannochloropsis gaditana for bio-butanol production
Onay, Melih - In: Energy Reports 6 (2020) 1, pp. 63-67
It presents an effective bio-butanol production with various acid hydrolysis treatment strategies H2SO4, HCI and H3PO4 (1, 2, 3, 4 and 5%) from Nannochloropsis gaditana grown under different light intensities (40, 80, 120 and 160μmolm-2 s-1). Microalgae were cultivated at 24 ± 2 with f/2...
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Challenges and prospects of renewable energy in Nigeria: A case of bioethanol and biodiesel production
Adewuyi, Adewale - In: Energy Reports 6 (2020) 4, pp. 77-88
Achieving an affordable clean energy in accordance to the sustainable development goal (SDG 7) is a challenge in Nigeria and other nations in Africa. Most of the currently used energy strategies are either not sustainable or poorly maintained. Nigeria is a major exporter of fossil fuel but...
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Resources, policy, and research activities of biofuel in Indonesia: A review
Putrasari, Yanuandri; Praptijanto, Achmad; Santoso, … - In: Energy Reports 2 (2016), pp. 237-245
Fossil fuels as the main energy source of every country now predicted will be ended no more than 40 years. Therefore, alternative fuel such as biofuel has been developed by many countries including Indonesia. Indonesia as one of the highest populated country and has wide areas of agriculture,...
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El efecto de China en el comercio internacional de América Latina
Montenegro, Claudio E.; Pereira, Mariana; Soloaga, Isidro - In: Estudios de Economía 38 (2011) 2, pp. 341-368
Using a gravity model, this article presents an analysis of aggregate trade flows aimed at identifying China's impact … on Latin America's trade. The results obtained indicate that: i) China's growth in the last years implied a growing …; and iii) a positive relationship between imports from China and exports to third markets was only found for the Southern …
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A productivity analysis considering environmental pollution and diseases in China
Cao, Huijuan; Fujii, Hidemichi; Managi, Shunsuke - In: Journal of Economic Structures 4 (2015), pp. 1-19
Environmental pollution and human health problems are becoming serious issues in China. This research focuses on …, environmental and health-related factors. Our dataset includes information of 29 areas in China from 2003 to 2009. We find that …
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Cross-listing, managerial compensation and corporate governance
Luo, Yongli - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 2 (2014) 1, pp. 1-17
This study examines the relationship between cross-listing and managerial compensation of Chinese firms that concurrently issued A- and B-shares or A- and H-shares during 2001 - 2010. The results show that executive compensation is a positive factor to motivate Chinese A-share firms to...
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