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Electricity consumption and economic growth nexus: Evidence from MENA countries
Bouoiyour, Jamal; Selmi, Refk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The objective of this study is to investigate the causality between electricity consumption and economic growth for a panel of twelve MENA countries (seven energy exporters and five energy importers) over the period 1975–2010 within a bivariate framework. To examine this linkage, we applied...
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The potato value chain in Bihar: An assessment and policy implications
Minten, Bart; Reardon, Thomas; Singh, K.M.; Sutradhar, Rajib - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
in Bihar, in collaboration between the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) in Patna, the International Fund … for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), as potatoes are one of … more difficult to control in the Indian setting. Close collaboration with local research stations as to introduce the most …
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Extraction of non-renewable resources: a differential game approach
Halkos, George; Papageorgiou, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Exploitation of non–renewable resources is an intensively studied field of environmental economics in the last century. Since the influential Hotelling’s paper a huge progress is made in the depletable resources literature. Although a variety of methodologies is used in that problem’s...
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Missing in Action? Speed optimization and slow steaming in maritime shipping
Assmann, Lisa; Andersson, Jonas; Eskeland, Gunnar S. - Institutt for foretaksøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2015
This paper analyzes the claim, made by both academics and by industry insiders, that vessels speed up under conditions of high freight rates and low bunker prices. The rationale for the claim is that a ship should move slowly when high bunker prices make energy cost savings great and when the...
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POTENTIAL FOR GREEN BUILDING ADOPTION: EVIDENCE FROM KENYA
Khaemba, Peter; Mutsune, Tony - In: Global Journal of Business Research 8 (2014) 3, pp. 69-76
. This paper is based on a recent research study that employed a mixed methods approach to explore the potential for adoption …
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Value chain analysis for sea cucumber in the Philippines
Brown, E.O.; Perez, M.L.; Garces, L.R.; Ragaza, R.J.; … - WorldFish Center, Consultative Group on International …
, especially their implications for the Australian Center for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) funded sandfish project …
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Fish seed production in ricefields: participatory training and extension manual
Barman, B.K.; Roy, S.; Haque, M.; Mitra, B.; Belton, B. - WorldFish Center, Consultative Group on International …
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Improved fisheries productivity and management in tropical reservoirs
BΘnΘ, C. et al. - WorldFish Center, Consultative Group on International …
The objective of the project was to contribute to the current research on reservoirs enhancement fisheries in tropical … countries through the implementation of a series of action-research activities implemented in two small reservoirs in the Indo …
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Baseline study: nutritional status, food security and fish consumption among people living with HIV/AIDS in Zambia
Banda Nyirenda, D.; Sampa, M.; Husken, S.M.C. - WorldFish Center, Consultative Group on International …
Under the regional programme Fisheries and HIV/AIDS in Africa, the University of Zambia, in collaboration with the WorldFish Center, has undertaken a baseline survey of the nutritional status and fish consumption of people living with HIV/AIDS in Zambia. Factors examined include household...
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Estimation of annual yield of fish by guild in the Lower Mekong Basin: report for the NIES/the WorldFish Center project: Scenario-based assessment of the potential effects of alter...
Halls, A. - WorldFish Center, Consultative Group on International …
This consultation is a contribution to an assessment of the impacts of basin development on fish production in the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB). Fish of different species respond to development activities, in particular hydropower development, in different ways depending upon their migratory...
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