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Central and East European Agriculture in Integrating Europe

Lukas, Zdenek; Mládek, Jan - 2006

pressure from the WTO, will drop in the long run. Further liberalization of the agro-food markets and rising labour … post-war development. Mounting WTO pressure and the growing reluctance of rich EU member states to contribute to the …

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Farmers’ Distress Index: An Approach for an Action Plan to Reduce Vulnerability in the Drylands of India

Reddy, A. Amarender; Bhattacharya, Anindita; Reddy, S. Venku - In: Land 10 (2021) 11, pp. --

Farmer distress is a widely recognized problem in India induced by multiple causes ranging from climate variability to price volatility and the low risk-bearing ability of farmers. Tracking farmers’ distress in a localized context is a prerequisite for timely action to provide sustainable...

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Agriculture's contribution to the economic recovery: Possibilities of reducing the current input crises

Berca, Mihai; Robescu, Valentina-Ofelia; Horoiaş, Roxana - 2022

This paper approaches an extremely current topic, namely the substitution of synthetic nitrogen, very expensive and polluting, with nitrogen of biological synthesis, through the peas and Rhizobium system, cheap and nonpolluting. The entire economy is going through a period of crises, generated...

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Revealing the willingness to pay for income insurance in agriculture

Pérez-Blanco, Carlos Dionisio; Gómez, C. M. - 2015

A stable agricultural income is often regarded as a way to achieve a better environmental performance in this sector. However, conventional income stabilization tools have been showing recently signs of exhaustion. Under this critical juncture, EU institutions have encouraged the expansion of...

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Leveraging small and medium-sized enterprise finance through value chains in Georgia

Khishtovani, Giorgi; Saghareishvili, Mariam; Basilidze, … - 2019

A strong small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector can contribute much to a country's economy by fostering innovation, creating jobs, and reducing poverty. This paper examines the status of SME finance in Georgia and the involvement of Georgian SMEs in global value chains. The role of SMEs...

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Leveraging SME finance through value chains in the CAREC landlocked economies

Boojoo, Lakshmi - 2019

This paper analyzes the situation of SMEs in Mongolia, especially their financial situation and financing mechanisms, the business environment, the existing policies, and value chain analysis, and makes suggestions for enhancing their development. Value chains that have their potential developed...

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Effect of economic integration on agricultural export performance in selected West African countries

Shobande, Olatunji Abdul - In: Economies 7 (2019) 3, pp. 1-14

The paper investigates the effect of economic integration on agricultural export performance in West African economies using the gravity model of bilateral trade on the annual time series data straddling the period 1970 to 2016. The empirical evidence is based on the pooled OLS and fixed effects...

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Agricultural and food trade in Central and Eastern Europe: the case of Slovenian intra-industry trade

Bojnec, Štefan; Hartmann, Monika - 2004

One of the striking features in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries is the deterioration of their agricultural and food trade balance during transition to a market economy as im-ports increased faster than exports or exports even declined. This paper investigates the Slovenian...

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US policy contributions to agricultural commodity price fluctuations, 2006 - 12

Rausser, Gordon C.; De Gorter, Harry - 2013

Since 2006, global prices and price volatility for foodgrain commodities have spiked frequently and dramatically. Such spikes have had the heaviest economic and social impact on developing nations, where agriculture accounts for a sizable portion of economic activity. We demonstrate how US...

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Recent claims of China's economic exceptionalism: Reflections inspired by WTO accession

Woo, Wing Thye - 2001

The desirability of WTO membership for China depends on whether its economic successes have been the result of its … advanced member of WTO. If the experimentalist interpretation of China''s phenomenal growth is correct, then WTO membership is … a negative development because it could be a straitjacket for WTO-enforced institutional harmonisation that would …

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