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. Agricultural studies indicate that applying GMO technology is likely the most effective way to feed many of the world's hungry. In …
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The purpose of this research is to assess the universal scientific trends and examine the patterns in the intellectual research published on trade liberalization over a period of 35 years (1980-2015). The data were collected from a leading indexing and abstracting database Thomson Reuters Web of...
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other factors, hunger is not expected to worsen but to become non-significant in all regions of the world during the coming … decades. The fight against hunger is far from over, and world hunger will end sooner with the right policies in place. This … not-to-be-missed book explains the world's food and hunger situation in plain English, backed by a wealth of solid data …
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This paper combines an econometric analysis of the response of energy demand to temperature and humidity exposure with future scenarios of climate change and socioeconomic development to characterize climate impacts on energy demand at different spatial scales. Globally, future climate change is...
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Long-run development (in income) causes a large fall in the share of agriculture commonly known as the agricultural transition. We confirm that this conventional wisdom is strongly supported by the data. Long-run development (in income) also causes a large increase in democracy known as the...
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elsewhere. This paper studies how environmental differences between frontier innovators and the rest of the world shape the … world in which technology were equally productive in all contexts. We use our framework to study how historical and …
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In the analysis of bilateral trade flows, reported trade of zero or missing observations are quite common and this is a problem when estimating log-linear gravity equations. This has caused many researchers to either ignore the zero trade flows or to replace the zero with a small positive...
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This paper is an attempt to understand the price formation mechanism in world wheat markets and trace its likely … and more specifically to understand the influence of major exporters/producers on the stability of world wheat markets …, Canada and Australia hold large implications for the stability of world wheat markets. In the domestic sector, simulation …
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