Grain is an important marketable commodity that is hampered by risk of interrelated dimensions, particularly in borderlands of West Africa. Assessing the extent of risk in borderlands can be valuable for policy-makers and likely to contribute to increased regional trade through effective...

Previous application of the stochastic frontier model and subsequent measurement of the performance of the crop sector can be criticized for the estimated production function relying on the assumption that the underlying technology is the same for different agricultural systems. This paper...

Although agricultural machinery is indispensable for modern agriculture, the effect of machinery structure on food production is rarely scrutinized. Machinery structure, referring to the proportion of high-capacity machines which are represented by tractors with relatively high horsepower, is...

Die Weltagrarmärkte waren im letzten Jahr von stark steigenden Preisen geprägt. Wird diese Entwicklung durch fundamentale Faktoren gestützt oder handelt es sich um eine kurzfristige Erscheinung? Welche Rolle spielen dabei das Bevölkerungswachstum und die Steigerung der Pro-Kopf-Einkommen?...

Der Ukrainekrieg hat gravierende Auswirkungen auf die internationalen Agrarmärkte, da sowohl die Ukraine als auch Russland auf dem Weltmarkt eine wichtige Rolle spielen. Schon vor Beginn des Angriffskrieges waren die Getreidepreise auf einem hohen Niveau, was auf eine bereits angspannte...

Este trabajo tiene como objetivo estimar, analizar y comparar el comportamiento de los flujos de entrada y salida, y las probabilidades de transición instantáneas entre inactividad, desocupación y ocupación por grupos de edad (15-24 años, 25-44 años, 45-64 años y más de 65 años) en...

This study provides insight into sustainability challenges in Venezuela by exploring the causal interactions between oil price, energy consumption and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in Venezuela. Economic growth, government consumption expenditure and trade openness are included as additional...

Policy responses to COVID-19 affected the dynamic of economic growth and labor markets worldwide, hitting economically harder on developing countries. These policies involved economic lockdowns that included the shutdown of the main statistical exercises, making it almost impossible to assess...

In this paper, the time-frequency dependency of political risk as well as economic and financial risks is explored in Venezuela using quarterly data from 1984Q1 to 2018Q4. The present study uses the wavelet coherence technique, which allows the investigation of both the long and short-term...