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Human Trafficking : A Global Multi-Billion Dollar Criminal Industry

Smith, Katherine Taken; Russell, Hannah; Smith, Murphy - 2019

and not corrupt. This study examines the global scope of human trafficking and its negative affect on world society. This …

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Agroindustrialization, Globalization, and International Development. An Overview of Issues, Patterns, and Determinants

Reardon, Thomas; Barrett, Christopher B. - 2013

This paper offers an overview for a special issue on agroindustrialization, globalization, and international development. It sets out a conceptual framework for understanding the links among these three broad phenomena and then discusses emerging issues and evidence concerning the factors...

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Trends in World Agricultural and Food Trade

Maletta, Hector E. - 2020

reviews tendencies in the amount and content of agricultural and food trade since the early 1960s, at the world scale and for … major world regions, using a metric of world-average unit values based on 2004-2006. It finds that during the past half … file containing estimates of reference world-average unit values for over 350 traded items for the base period 2004 …

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How Strong Do Global Commodity Prices Influence Domestic Food Prices in Developing Countries? A Global Price Transmission and Vulnerability Mapping Analysis

Kalkuhl, Matthias - 2014

This paper analyzes the transmission from global commodity to domestic food prices for a large set of countries. First, a theoretical model is developed to explain price transmission for different trade regimes. Drawing from the competitive storage model under rational expectations, it is shown...

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Relationship Among Economic Growth, Internet Usage and Publication Productivity : Comparison Among ASEAN and World's Best Countries

Gholizadeh, Hossein; Salehi, Hadi; Embi, Mohamed Amin; … - 2014

reputation of countries and institutions. Nevertheless, the relationship among research publications, economic growth and World … among ASEAN and the world’s top ten countries in the last 16 years (1996-2011). This study also aimed at finding the … citations, citations per document and international collaboration from 1996 to 2011 for each country. The World Bank database …

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The Multilateral of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture : Lessons and Room for Further Development

Kamau, Evanson - 2015

This chapter explores the multilateral system of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture with a view to uncover vital lessons for managing access and benefit sharing challenges of the bilateral approach as well as lessons for improving ABS practices for...

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Commodity Policy Compatibility with Free Trade Agreements

Sumner, Daniel A.; Hallstrom, Daniel G. - 1998

We analyze the effects of international market opening in the context of a variety of common agricultural commodity programs. We show that direct payments programs are more compatible and price support policies are less compatible removal of border barriers. The second half of the paper develops...

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Agro-Chemical Mega-Mergers and Innovation – Between Competition Law, Regulation and IP Rights

Lianos, Ioannis - 2018

This study aims to narrate the context that shaped the competition assessment of the last wave of mega-mergers in the agrochem sector. It first focuses on the propertization of nature and the shrinking of the public domain, before exploring the important game-changer of the gene-editing...

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Chapter 74 Agriculture Renaissance : Making “Agriculture for Development” Work in the 21 st Century

Pingali, Prabhu - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 4, (pp. 3867-3894). 2010

least developed countries of the world, it could mean re-engaging agriculture's potential as a driver of overall economic …

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When the Peace Ends : The Vulnerability of EC and Us Agricultural Subsidies to WTO Legal Challenge

Steinberg, Richard H.; Josling, Timothy E. - 2015

Article 13 of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture, known as the "Peace Clause," precludes most WTO dispute settlement challenges against a country that is complying with the Agreement's liberalization commitments - until 1 January 2004, when the Peace Clause will expire. This article evaluates the...

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