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Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2017 The 1978-1979 « winter of Discontent » has now been thoroughly analysed as a political myth through which the industrial disputes of the winter 1978-1979 were defined as the sure sign of a larger crisis of state authority and of the social-democratic ...
Marc Lenormand
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Temporary Programs, Lasting Questions: Ad Hoc Assistance in the U.S. Farm Safety Net
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Large ad hoc assistance programs have returned to U.S. farm policy since 2017, operating alongside a more developed safety net built around federally subsidized crop insurance, Title I commodity programs, and standing disaster assistance. This paper reviews the renewed use of ad hoc assistance, documents its recent scale using USDA data, and ...
Alejandro Plastina +1 more
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UK Popular Music and Society in the 1970s
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2017 Commentators are unanimous about the important role of the UK in the 1970s in the history of popular music. Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, the Sex Pistols and the Police : perhaps no other country produced as many influential artistes in this ...
John Mullen
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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor +3 more
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Football(s)French football in the 1970s saw the emergence of women’s football. It was authorised by the French Football Federation in 1970 and the first French championship was organised in 1974. Stade de Reims matches began to attract media interest.
Manon Suddards-Jalabert
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A Force to be Reckoned with? The Radical Left in the 1970s.
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2017 The radical left has been a permanent, albeit marginal, feature of British politics since the Russian Revolution. It has rarely been a threat to the Labour Party or the mainstream of the trade union movement.
Jeremy Tranmer
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Food Prices and Inflation Expectations in New Zealand
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Food prices are conspicuous, and spending on food constitutes a considerable share of household expenditure. In this study, we use partially identified Bayesian structural vector autoregression models to analyze the effects of food price shocks on core inflation and 1‐ and 5‐year inflation expectations in New Zealand.
Puneet Vatsa +2 more
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Actualitatea romanului românesc în perioada 1975 – 1978 [PDF]
Revista de Istorie și Teorie Literară, 2020 The topicality of the Romanian novel can be considered one of the most important subjects approached by critics in the literary press of the ʼ70s. The ”modern novel” emphasizes especially the originality, novelty, and depth of ideas, a detail that can be
Cristina Deutsch
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Deforestation and Efficiency: Insights From Forest Transition in the Brazilian Cerrado
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper estimates technical efficiency (TE) and environmental efficiency (EE) of agricultural production at the municipal level of the Brazilian Cerrado in 2006 and 2017, and investigates their underlying mechanisms in relation to forest transition theory.
Ricardo Muniz Simões +2 more
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When development meets culture : the contribution of Celso Furtado in the 1970s [PDF]
The article assesses the work of Celso Furtado (1920-2004) in the 1970s, when the author promotes an ambitious attempt to redefine the field of development economics. Furtado's works have recently been revisited by several authors, including in the field
Alexandre Mendes Cunha, Gustavo Britto
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