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Enhancing contributions of the informal sector to National development: The case of Uganda

Muwonge, Abdu; Obwona, Marios; Nambwaayo, Victoria - Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) - 2007

Regardless of the definition of the informal sector, there is wide spread consensus that the sector is important to the developing world. The International Lab-our Organization estimated that in 1990, 21 percent of the Sub-Saharan Africa's 227 million labour force was working in the informal...

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The Effect of Increased Energy Prices on Agriculture: A Differential Supply Approach

Moss, Charles B.; Livanis, Grigorios T.; Schmitz, Andrew - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 42 (2010) 04

The increase in energy prices between 2004 and 2007 has several potential consequences for aggregate agriculture in the U.S. We estimate the derived input demand elasticities for energy as well as capital, labor, and materials using the differential supply formulation. Given that the derived...

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The Effects of FMMOs Pricing Regimes on Milk Price Behavior and Dairy Farm Profitability

Bolotova, Yuliya - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2015

This research evaluates the effects of the key changes that took place in the design of Class III milk pricing within Federal Milk Marketing Orders (FMMOs) on milk price behavior and dairy farm profitability over three milk pricing regimes: Minnesota-Wisconsin price series (1960s – 1995),...

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Kryzys finansowy a rentowność polskiego przemysłu spożywczego

Stefko, Olga - In: Problems of World Agriculture / Problemy Rolnictwa … 12 (2012) 27

The problem of evaluation of Polish food processing industry in the light of general economic tendencies in period 2006-2010 was undertaken in the article. The main part presents an assessment of the financial crisis impact in the analyzed period. The findings are based on an analysis of changes...

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Gospodarka wodno-ściekowa wielkopolskich przedsiębiorstw mleczarskich a ich konkurencyjność po wstąpieniu Polski do Unii Europejskiej

Hadryjańska, Barbara - In: Problems of World Agriculture / Problemy Rolnictwa … 11 (2011) 26

The paper presents the competitiveness of dairy enterprises in the Wielkopolska region in terms of the adopted water supply and sewage disposal systems after the Poland’s accession to the EU. A survey was conducted on 32 entities, among which there were small, medium-sized and large...

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Finansowe wsparcie inwestycji w polskim przemyśle rolno- -spożywczym

Cieślewicz, Wiesława - In: Problems of World Agriculture / Problemy Rolnictwa … 11 (2011) 26

For the Polish agri-food industry the beginning of the 21 century was a time of intensive changes released by the Poland’s accession to the European Union. It was necessary to modernize plants thoroughly in order to make them competitive in both the domestic and the EU market. What has proved...

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Addressing the Needs of the Agribusiness “Fringe”

Larson, Ronald B. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

Students studying “fringe” agribusiness sectors (e.g,, supermarkets, textile manufacturers, paper mills, wholesale …” areas are not uniform, “generic” agribusiness courses may not address all their specific business skill needs. One starting … point could be to rotate part of the agribusiness capstone course so three major topics are covered in depth different …

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Addressing Gender Gaps in the Ugandan Labour Market

Kasirye, Ibrahim - Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) - 2011

Four out of every five women in Uganda are employed in agriculture, according to the 2008 Gender and Productivity Survey (GPS) in Uganda (EPRC, 2009); and 42 percent of women in the labour force are unpaid family workers—receiving no income despite contributing the largest proportion of the...

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State support of agricultural enterprises and its effectiveness

Karpik, Olga - In: Problems of World Agriculture / Problemy Rolnictwa … 03 (2008) 18

The problem of effective using of gated out budgetary funds in agrarian sector is discussed. An offer of development of a procedure which should consider potential productivity of each region and agricultural organization and promote a decrease of differences between enterprises and territories...

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Impact of agricultural development on economic and financial situation of cooperative banks in Poland

Siudek, Tomasz - In: Problems of World Agriculture / Problemy Rolnictwa … 01 (2007) 16

The paper examines the impact of development of agricultural sector on performance of the cooperative banks in Poland in years 1997-2004. The levels of the agricultural development and the economic/financial situation of the banks were assessed by using country-level and regional-level aggregate...

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