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Cross-sector development partnerships (CSDPs) are project-based collaborative arrangements between business, government …, and civil society organizations in support of international development goals such as sustainability, health education …, and economic development. Based on the case of public private partnerships in development cooperation, we examine the …
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sustainability transitions within a transnational sector. Our case is the global coffee sector where ‘sustainability standards' are …
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Since 1980 the amount of palm oil sold on the market has increased more than ten-fold. A critical public discussion regarding the cultivation of palm oil – and above all in the developing countries of South-East Asia – has developed (in the western countries). Above all local Asian companies...
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sustainability along the global value-added chain. To this end, sustainability standards are increasingly being applied in cocoa …
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Global regulations, such as social and environmental standards, often result from project-based multi … ground. We show that local development projects aimed at testing and implementing new practices at the local level and … Community, we develop a process model of global standard development and discuss in particular the importance of global project …
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Cross-sector development partnerships (CSDPs) are project-based collaborative arrangements between business, government …, and civil society organizations in support of international development goals such as sustainability, health education …, and economic development. Focusing on public private partnerships in development cooperation, we examine different …
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trade policies. First, an export subsidy increases the steady-state average quality of exports and welfare in a LQE, but …
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In a market for a quality-differentiated good with heterogeneous set of consumers and a local firm facing competitive imports from abroad, we examine private and social incentives for quality innovation. For differential tariff regime, we show that both the private and social gains increase with...
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Multilateral trade rounds have stressed converting non tariff barriers to simple tariffs. The WTO Agreement on … enter international trade. This shadow prices must be accounted for in the tariffication exercise to produce the least …
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With the emergence of North-South intra-industry trade in products where consumers value quality, exporting countries … trade policy depends on both the quality choice of firms entering the market for exports as well as the degree of product …
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