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Does Migration Raise Agricultural Investment? An Empirical Analysis for Rural Mexico
Böhme, Marcus - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
rural Mexico to investigate the impact of remittances on agriculture and livestock investments. After controlling for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886841
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Why should sub-Saharan Africa care about the Doha development round?
Draper, Peter; Freytag, Andreas; Al Doyaili, Sarah - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
In recent years sub-Saharan Africa, notwithstanding the global financial crisis, has increased its share in global trade and investment flows. This has led to an appreciable improvement in development levels, albeit off a small base. However, these patterns are still dominated by commodity flows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956038
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Russia's food security and climate change: Looking into the future
Kiselev, Sergey; Romashkin, Roman; Nelson, Gerald C.; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
Global climate change presents long-term risks to agriculture. In general, global climate change is expected to … positively affect Russian agriculture. In high and middle latitudes, global warming would expand the growing season. Acreages of … production in the Russian Federation. It also considers adaptive measures for agriculture in response to climate change. …
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The Impact of the 2008 Hadramout Flash Flood in Yemen on Economic Performance and Nutrition: A Simulation Analysis
Breisinger, Clemens; Ecker, Olivier; Thiele, Rainer; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
Combining a Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium (DCGE) model of the Yemeni economy with a microsimulation model that captures the link between changes in household incomes and changes in nutrition status, this paper provides a quantitative assessment of the agricultural, economy-wide, and...
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Politics, globalization, and food crisis discourse
Guerrero, Esposo; Joseph, Bernard - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
The literature on food security has mainly been focused on causes, effects, and/or the nature of the crisis. However, there have been only a few attempts to understand how the discourse on the subject matter was shaped and is still being shaped at present. Food security is at the intersection of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534484
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Determinants of transport costs: Are they uniform across countries?
Schürenberg-Frosch, Hannah - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
The author shows with pooled OLS estimations based on transport margins from international social accounting data that investments in improved road infrastructure have the potential to significantly reduce transport costs. However, this result can only be clearly confirmed for industrial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010983183
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Establishing a Sustainable Development Goal for Oceans and Coasts to Face the Challenges of our Future Ocean
Visbeck, Martin; Kronfeld-Goharani, Ulrike; Neumann, Barbara - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
Oceans regulate our climate, provide us with natural resources such as food, materials, substances, and energy and are essential for international trade, recreational, and cultural activities. Free access to and availability of ocean resources and services, together with human development, have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887023
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Should We Discount the Far-Distant Future at Its Lowest Possible Rate?
Gollier, Christian - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
In this paper, we elaborate on an idea initially developed by Weitzman (1998) that justifies taking the lowest possible discount rate for far-distant future cash flows. His argument relies on the arbitrary assumption that when the future rate of return of capital (RRC) is uncertain, one should...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005083338
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Avoiding Extinction: Equal Treatment of the Present and the Future
Chichilnisky, Graciela - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
Equal treatment for the present and the future was required in two axioms for sustainable development introduced by the author. This article shows that the two axioms are equivalent to awareness of physical limits in the long run future. We prove that two optimization problems are equivalent :...
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The Impact of Trade and Economic Growth on the Environment: Revisiting the Cross-Country Evidence
Abdulai, Awudu; Ramcke, Linda - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
This paper explores the interrelations between economic growth, international trade and environmental degradation both theoretically and empirically. Panel data from developed and developing countries for the period of 1980 to 2003 is used and previous critique, especially on the econometric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755236