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Distributional Effects of the Panama Canal Expansion

Bussolo, Maurizio; Hoyos, Rafael de; Medvedev, Denis - In: ECONOMIA JOURNAL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN … (2012)

out of agriculture and from the informal to the formal sector, much of the impact is manifested in growing wage …

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From Maize to Haze: Agricultural Shocks and the Growth of the Mexican Drug Sector - Working Paper 355

Dube, Oeindrila; Garcia-Ponce, Omar; Thom, Kevin - 2014

We examine how commodity price shocks experienced by rural producers affect the drug trade in Mexico. Our analysis exploits exogenous movements in the Mexican maize price stemming from weather conditions in U.S. maize-growing regions, as well as export flows of other major maize producers. Using...

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What Drives Deforestation and What Stops It? A Meta-Analysis of Spatially Explicit Econometric Studies - Working Paper 361

Ferretti-Gallon, Kalifi; Busch, Jonah - 2014

likely to be cleared where economic returns to agriculture and pasture are higher, either due to more favorable …

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WTO Agriculture Negotiations and South Asian Countries

Chand, Ramesh; Bathla, Seema - In: South Asia Economic Journal 6 (2005) 1, pp. 1-22

As mandated by Article XX of the Uruguay Round, negotiations for next round of the Agreement on Agriculture (AOA) began … region. The South Asian agenda for a new round of negotiations on agriculture in the WTO needs to be somewhat offensive. The …. South Asian agriculture has some strength and SACs need not be extremely defensive and inward looking. This paper suggests a …

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Input Subsidies to Agriculture: Case of Subsidies to Fertiliser Industry across Countries

Ashra, Sunil; Chakravarty, Malini - In: Vision 11 (2007) 3, pp. 35-58

developed countries to their agriculture which is much bigger making the subsidies to agriculture becoming a contentious issue …

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Ukraine and the great biofuel potential? A political material flow analysis

Schaffartzik, Anke; Plank, Christina; Brad, Alina - In: Ecological Economics 104 (2014) C, pp. 12-21

Ukraine was once considered the breadbasket of the Soviet Union, its agriculture subject to both extensification and …

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What Motivates Farm Couples to Seek Off-farm Labour? A Logit Analysis of Job Transitions

Biørn, Erik; Bjørnsen, Hild-Marte - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2013

In this paper some labour market consequences of transitions in the agriculture sector are examined by combining a 20 …

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Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture: What Role for Food Security in Bangladesh?

Sraboni, Esha; Malapit, Hazel J.; Quisumbing, Agnes R.; … - In: World Development 61 (2014) C, pp. 11-52

agriculture, measured using the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index, and per capita calorie availability, dietary diversity …

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Exporting Vietnam's agricultural and fishery products to European Union market under green trade barriers

Khoi, Nguyen Viet; Thuy, Le Thi Thanh - In: International Journal of Diplomacy and Economy 1 (2013) 3/4, pp. 309-328

The number of environmental protection regulations, acting as green trade barriers is increasing despite the fact that there is no common policy framework or a powerful international organisation responsible for monitoring them. The vague borderline between environment protection and trade...

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BILATERAL TRADE AND FOOD SECURITY

BROOKS, DOUGLAS H.; FERRARINI, BENNO; GO, EUGENIA C. - In: Journal of International Commerce, Economics and Policy … 04 (2013) 03, pp. 1350015-1

We analyze the relationship between food security and trade by computing a bilateral import penetration index (BIPI), which gauges the degree to which a country depends on another or a small set of others for food imports. Food trade maps are then drawn by application of a force-directed...

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