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Measurement of Costs and Benefits of Accession to the European Union for Selected Countries in Central and Eastern Europe

Mortensen, Jorgen; Richter, Sandor - 2000

This paper is the final report of a research project whose aim was to analyse the methodology of calculating the costs and benefits for the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia of the envisaged accession to the European Union. The research focused particularly on the impact of the...

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An overview of Romanian agricultural indicators in the last years

Bularca, Elena; Toma, Elena - 2018

The main purpose of this study is to present and analyze a number of technical and economic indicators of Romanian agriculture during 2005-2016. The main indicators monitored are the land fund development, area and crop production, livestock and livestock production, number of agricultural...

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An innovative approach to food security policy in developing countries

Boratyńska, Katarzyna T.; Tofiq Huseynov, Raqif - In: Journal of Innovation & Knowledge (JIK) 2 (2017) 1, pp. 39-44

The article describes and analyzes the innovative concept of food security policy and presents theoretical microeconomic model of food security by Abdulai (2000) that explains individuals' demand for food ingredients. The literature review involves both direct and indirect policy measures that...

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Global population growth, technology and Malthusian constraints: A quantitative growth theoretic perspective

Lanz, Bruno; Dietz, Simon; Swanson, Tim - 2016

economic growth? We structurally estimate a two-sector Schumpeterian growth model with endogenous population and finite land … model closely replicates trajectories for world population, GDP, sectoral productivity growth and crop land area from 1960 … fertility costs, significant population growth. By 2100 global population reaches 12.4 billion and agricultural production …

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Global economic growth and agricultural land conversion under uncertain productivity improvements in agriculture

Lanz, Bruno; Dietz, Simon; Swanson, Tim - 2017

We study how stochasticity in the evolution of agricultural productivity interacts with economic and population growth … at the global level. We use a two-sector Schumpeterian model of growth, in which a manufacturing sector produces the …

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Voracity and growth econsidered

Strulik, Holger - 2008

to higher growth (the normal reaction). The same shock can produce voracious behavior and lower growth when faced by poor …

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Bananas, oil, and development: examining the resource curse and its transmission channels by resource type

Lay, Jann; Omar Mahmoud, Toman - 2004

This paper examines the resource curse and its transmission channels by resource type. We review and synthesize existing theories of the transmission channels of the curse. This synthesis suggests that (1) relating the transmission channels to the characteristics of different types of resources,...

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Local communities in front of big external investors: an opportunity or a risk?

Antoci, Angelo; Russu, Paolo; Ticci, Elisa - 2010

In the current age of trade and financial openness, local economies in developing countries are becoming increasingly exposed to external investments. The objective of the proposed two-sector model with environmental externalities is to provide an insight into the interaction between external...

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Structural change, environment and well-being: interactions between production and consumption choices of the rich and the poor in developing countries

Antoci, Angelo; Russu, Paolo; Ticci, Elisa - 2008

Vulnerability to scarcity or to reduction of natural capital depends on defensive substitution possibilities that, in turn, are affected by the availability of other productive factors. However, in several developing countries asset distribution tends to be highly skewed. Taking into ac- count...

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Vessel day scheme and tuna catch in the Pacific Island Region

Dutta, Champa Bati; Ivekolia, Mark; Kumar Das, Debasish - 2023

The Pacific Island nations heavily rely on the tuna fishery for government revenue and economic growth. Since the …

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