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Do Universal Free School Meals Improve the Dietary Quality of Food‐At‐Home Purchases?

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since 2014, the number of schools offering universal free meals to all enrolled children without requiring annual meal applications has increased meaningfully. Using USDA's Purchase to Plate Crosswalk, a difference‐in‐differences framework, and a nationwide consumer panel, the effect of universal‐free‐meal exposure on the diet quality of food ...
Xueying Ma   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Financial Crisis, Trade Finance, and SMEs : Case of Central Asia [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper surveys studies of the importance of Central Asian small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in the economy and their experience during the Russian financial crisis.
Gloria O. Pasadilla
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Environmental law: Russia and Central Asia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Russia and Central Asia are vast areas, rich in natural resources. Management of these resources has often been a struggle, balancing the good of the environment with the possibility of economic and industrial development.
Krasnova, Irina   +2 more
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Voluntary Collective Action to Address Growing Agricultural Challenges in Two Countries: Experimental Insights and Commonalities

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We conducted two framed field economic experiments with citrus farmers in Florida, United States and soybean farmers in Argentina to investigate their willingness to coordinate pest and weed management efforts. Despite the contrast between these two agricultural contexts, we find striking behavioral commonalities.
Ariel Singerman, Sergio H. Lence
wiley   +1 more source

Public diplomacy of Japan in Central Asia: the examples of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan

open access: yesHalyk̦aralyk̦ k̦atynastar ža̋ne halyk̦aralyk̦ k̦u̇k̦yk̦ seriâsì, 2020
This study focuses on the role of public diplomacy in shaping and implementing Japan’s foreign policy in Central Asia. Based on elements of cultural empathy, Japan creates an attractive image in Central Asia through the active use of public diplomacy ...
A. Palkova, K. Bukovskis, M. Shamilov
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Protecting vulnerable families in Central Asia: Poverty, vulnerability and the impact of the economic crisis [PDF]

open access: yes
Since the end of 2007, countries in Central Asia have been struck by two major consecutive shocks: the food and fuel price increase in 2007-08, and the global economic and financial crisis that began at the end of 2008. Households, both poor and not poor,
Gassmann, Franziska
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Promoting Economic Growth and Resilience in Europe and Central Asia

open access: yes, 2018
Critical Connections examines how trade, investment, migration, and other linkages among countries drive economic growth in the Europe and Central Asia region.
Gould, David Michael
core   +1 more source

The EU and China’s Strategies in Central Asia: Focus on Energy and Transport [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In 1991, there was a turning point in world history - the collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of newly independent states. Soon after the establishment of diplomatic relations between Central Asian states and the European Union, the EU has ...
Nurgaliyeva, Lyailya
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Rational Expectations and Market Timing: An Event Study of the China–United States Phase One Trade Deal

open access: yesApplied 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

Regional integration in Central Asia: A firm-centered view [PDF]

open access: yes
Regional integration remains among the main topics of international discourse in Central Asia, though the progress of international cooperation is very limited.
Libman, Alexander
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