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The Nobel Laureates' campaign supporting GMOs
Roberts, Richard J. - In: Journal of Innovation & Knowledge (JIK) 3 (2018) 2, pp. 61-65
More than 800 million people suffer from hunger in the world. Using modern plant breeding methods to generate so-called GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms), agricultural scientists have shown that crop yields and nutritional quality can be greatly improved. Many GMO varieties have been...
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Decision-making under radical uncertainty: An interpretation of Keynes' treatise
Marsay, David - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 10 (2016) 2016-1, pp. 1-31
Keynes' mathematical Treatise addresses what some call "radical uncertainty", which he thought endemic in world affairs and whose appreciation underpinned much of his later work. In contrast, the mainstream view in economics, as elsewhere, has been that even if radical uncertainty exists, either...
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Twenty Years of Basic Vocational Education Provision in Spain: Changes and Trends
Marhuenda, Fernando; Salvà, Francesca; Navas Saurin, … - In: International Journal for Research in Vocational … 2 (2015) 2, pp. 137-151
Our contribution attempts to review basic vocational education programmes in Spain over the past 25 years. We intend to compare the evolution of these programmes in terms of conception and conditions of delivery in order to find out how different they are as skill-formation and remedial systems,...
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Chinese food security and climate change: Agriculture futures
Ye, Liming; Tang, Huajun; Wu, Wenbin; Yang, Peng; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 8 (2014) 2014-1, pp. 1-39
Climate change is now affecting agriculture and food production in every country of the world. Here the authors present … the IMPACT model results on yield, production, and net trade of major crops in China, and on daily calorie availability as … an overall indicator of food security under climate change scenarios and socio-economic pathways in 2050. The obtained …
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Europäische Energie- und Klimapolitik braucht ambitionierte Ziele für 2030
Kemfert, Claudia; von Hirschhausen, Christian; Lorenz, … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 81 (2014) 10, pp. 175-185
In January 2014, the European Commission proposed a framework for its climate and energy policy up to 2030. It includes …, exports, and employment. The German federal government should continue its commitment to an ambitious European policy to …
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Is Old Money Better than New? Duration and Monetary Regimes
Rose, Andrew K.; Mihov, Ilian - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-13, pp. 1-24
that fix exchange rates and those that target inflation. Inflation targeting is a more durable policy; no country has yet … monetary regimes for comparable countries. Regime duration also matters in monetary policy; older regimes are typically more …
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A letter by the Regional Editor for South America: From varietals to terroir
Gennari, Alejandro Juan - In: Wine Economics and Policy 3 (2014) 2, pp. 69-70
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Size effects of fiscal policy and business confidence in the Euro area
Michail, Nektarios A.; Savva, Christos S.; Koursaros, … - In: International Journal of Financial Studies 5 (2017) 4, pp. 1-15
importance. However, policy responses have emphasized the management of fiscal spending without examining the impact changes in …
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The Impact of the Financial Crisis on European E-Government Development
Teiu, Codrin-Marius - In: CES Working Papers 3 (2011) 3, pp. 429-439
This paper is assessing the status of e-government development in Europe in comparison with other regions of the world by analyzing evolution trends and making correlations between the financial crisis and the fluctuations registered in the indexes that are measuring e-government development....
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A Theoretical Approach on the Strategic Partnership Between the European Union and the Russian Federation
Gentimir, Razvan-Alexandru - In: CES Working Papers 7 (2015) 2, pp. 288-295
, when policy contradictions block the evolution of the partnership. …
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