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This paper suggests a holistic framework for assessing farm competitiveness, and analyses competitiveness of different type of Bulgarian farms during EU CAP implementation. First, it presents a new approach for assessing farm competitiveness defining farm competitiveness and its three criteria...
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This study presents an analysis of Ghana’s performance in export of cocoa using the revealed comparative advantage and revealed symmetric comparative advantage measures of competitiveness for the periods 1964-69 (immediate years following the collapse of world price of cocoa), 1983-92 (Reform...
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With the local rice industry of Nigeria been hindered by inconsistent government policies, improper methods of production, high cost and scarcity of vital inputs of production among other constraints, domestic production of rice has failed to catch up with the increasing pace of consumption. In...
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The paper presents findings of a large study on socio-economic impacts of the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster on the Japanese agriculture and food sector. It contains fourteen parts: introduction with the framework of analysis; a brief description of events and...
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Republic of Macedonia has strong both comparative and competitive advantages in the agri-industrial complex; a situation rarely seen in other sectors of the national economy. Therefore, basic strategic objective of the sector’s stakeholders should be the export expansion of foodstufs. The...
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Organization (WTO) is important body in the international trade and agriculture. Surprisingly, the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA …) of WTO does not refer to food and agriculture at all. Agricultural subsidies and trade become controversial issues in the … Doha round of talks in the recent past. The entry of China into the WTO has a dramatic impact on the country's farmers …
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The dissatisfaction of developing countries with the new Trade Round surfaced first in the WTO meeting in Seattle in … GATT/WTO rules and in their implementation by developed countries. The interrelated issues of conflict of ideology … factors has been reflected in a number of contradictions, double standards and asymmetries not only in GATT/WTO rules in …
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agricultural sector by developing countries and contradictions in the design and implementation of GATT/WTO rules. Agricultural …
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Agriculture in India is the most important segment of the economy. Growth of Agricultural sector is crucial for Indian economy as it employs two-third of its population and contributes nearly one-third of national income. However its importance in the economic, social and political fabric of...
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This paper depicts the agricultural policy reforms and structural changes in Bangladesh from independence to the present times. Bangladesh agriculture has experienced major structural changes and achieved major successes over the last three and a half decades. Reforms began in the late 1970s and...
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