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Posh spice or scary spice? : resource booms, wealth, and human capital across ages

Boone, Christopher; Kaila, Heidi; Sahn, David E. - 2024

We examine the impact of a six-fold increase in the global vanilla price on smallholder vanilla-farming households in Madagascar. The price increase leads to sizable gains in household assets and significant improvements in adult psychological well-being, cognitive performance, and optimism...

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Environmental integrity and doing business in Zimbabwe : challenges and engagement of sustainable enterprises

De Gobbi, Maria Sabrina - 2020

Zimbabwe has a wealth of natural resources and is rich in biodiversity. The national Government is trying to achieve private sector led economic growth and the challenge to pursue both economic development and sound environmental management at the same time appears clear. The objective of this...

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Agricultural Liberalization in the Doha Round

Messerlin, Patrick - In: Global Economy Journal 5 (2005) 4

Agriculture is an urgent and vital problem for developing countries, and even more so for the poorest countries that … countries. The Uruguay Round brought agriculture into the WTO legal framework, but did not lower the effective level of OECD … for low-income consumers, and a special safeguard for agriculture is not recommended. It is imperative that agricultural …

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Commentary: A Canadian Perspective Toward a Level International Playing Field

Landreville, Denis - In: Global Economy Journal 5 (2005) 4

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. He is a member of Canadas negotiating team at the WTO agriculture negotiations, responsible for … market access issues. He is also the lead agriculture negotiator in the Canada-Korea FTA negotiations and the Canada-CA4 …

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Commentary: The United States, Agriculture, and the Doha Round of Negotiations

Jabara, Cathy - In: Global Economy Journal 5 (2005) 4

the Agriculture and Fishery Products Division at the U.S. International Trade Commission. She has been at the Commission … Agriculture and the U.S. Treasury Department. She received her Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics at Purdue University. She is …

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Commentary: A Japanese Perspective on WTO Agricultural Negotiations

Suzuki, Yoichi - In: Global Economy Journal 5 (2005) 4

A commentary on Patrick Messerlin's article "Agricultural Trade Liberalization."Yoichi Suzuki joined the Japanese Foreign Ministry in 1975, after having studied international public law at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo. He also studied at and graduated from the Ecole Nationale...

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Commentary: Developing Countries Perspective on Agricultural Liberalization

Mtesa, Love - In: Global Economy Journal 5 (2005) 4

A commentary on Patrick Messerlin's article, "Agricultural Trade Liberalization."Love Mtesa is Zambian Ambassador to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva, including the WTO. He is the Coordinator for the Least Developed Countries at the Ambassadorial level....

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Strategic Public Policy Toward Agricultural Biotechnology with Externalities in Developing Countries

Chattopadhyay, Anasuya; Horbulyk, Theodore M. - In: Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization 2 (2004) 1

Game theory and numerical simulation analyze the host governments role in strategically regulating intellectual property rights (IPRs) for agricultural biotechnology in a developing country. A foreign monopolist imports and sells a genetically modified crop variety that will offer the host...

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On Cyclical Industry Evolution in Agricultural Biotechnology R&D

Oehmke, James F; Wolf, Christopher A; Raper, Kellie Curry - In: Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization 3 (2005) 2

Over the past twenty years, the R&D-based agricultural biotechnology industry has exhibited cyclical behavior in consolidation. This paper provides a positive, theoretical model of endogenous R&D, in which the number of firms engaged in R&D exhibits cyclical behavior. Additional, empirically...

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Which Parameters Determine the Development of Farm Numbers in Germany?

Röder, Norbert; Kilian, Stefan - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 231 (2011) 3, pp. 358-378

Summary In Germany, agricultural land use is very heterogeneous with respect to management orientation and productivity even at the local level. In addition, there is a wide variation in the reasons for farm exits. A review of the literature shows that a limited number of explanatory variables...

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