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Keeping Pace or Falling Behind? The Depth of Latin American Trade Agreements

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines whether Latin American countries are keeping pace with global trends in trade agreement depth or falling behind. Using 681 agreements (1970–2019), we develop the Depth Index of Trade Agreements (DITA) to weight provisions endogenously through factor analysis based on co‐occurrence patterns.
Raphael Gomes da Silva, Fernanda Aparecida Silva, Lia Nogueira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health-related quality of life of antiretroviral treatment defaulters in Botswana

Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine, 2016
Background: Antiretroviral therapy (ART) improves patients’ health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Defaulting from ART has detrimental consequences, including the development of viral resistance, treatment failure and increased risks of disease ...
Nnamdi O. Ndubuka, Hyun J. Lim, Dirk M. van der Wal, Valerie J. Ehlers   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Integrating Perennial Groundcover in Corn and Soybean Acres: Impacts on U.S. Agriculture

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable agricultural practices such as cover cropping can improve soil health, water quality, and carbon sequestration, yet U.S. adoption remains limited due to economic and operational barriers. We evaluate market and economic impacts of integrating perennial groundcover into U.S.
Sagar Dahal, Amani Elobeid, John Crespi
wiley   +1 more source

COLCHICACEAE

Bothalia: African Biodiversity & Conservation, 2001
A REMARKABLE NEW SPECIES OF ANDROCYMBIUM FROM NORTHERN CAPE.
J. C. Manning, P. Goldblatt
doaj   +1 more source

Rational Expectations and Market Timing: An Event Study of the China–United States Phase One Trade Deal

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rational actors constantly incorporate information into their decision‐making behavior. Since there is often a time lag between the announcement of a policy and its implementation, an important question arises: when do rational actors incorporate new information into their market behavior, at the announcement or at the implementation of a ...
Tim Ölkers, Oliver Mußhoff
wiley   +1 more source

Three hundred thousand years of multi-millennial hydroclimate variability in Northern Africa based on speleothem records from Tunisia

Communications Earth & Environment
Hydroclimate changes in Northern Africa reflect the interplay between mid-latitude westerlies and the West African monsoon, along with their intensity variations.
Yun-Chuan Chung, Hatem Dhaouadi, Gianluca Marino, Emna Sbei, Heikki Seppä, Anu Kaakinen, Mahjoor Ahmad Lone, Hédi Ben Ouezdou, Silvia Frisia, Chuan-Chou Shen   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Financing the development of poor communities in the Northern Cape of South Africa: An analytical framework for the study of Livestock Banks

Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences, 2009
This paper is part of a major project about the Northern Cape Land Reform and Advocacy (NCLRA) programme being implemented by FARM-Africa* in South Africa.
Ana Marr
doaj   +1 more source

Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Geraniaceae

Bothalia: African Biodiversity & Conservation, 2013
Pelargonium pachypodium (sect. Otidia), a new species from Northern Cape, South Africa.
J. P. Roux
doaj   +1 more source

Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor, Francis Tsiboe, Ayobami Adetoyinbo, Jacob Ankamah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source