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Without resorting to military power and political coercion measures, soft power, which can be interpreted as influencing or transforming other actors in favor of its own interests, especially in the context of economic/commercial reward mechanisms and ...
Göktürk TÜYSÜZOĞLU
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Since Morocco applied for membership in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in February 2017, it has only received an agreement in principle in 2018.
Ibrahim Zeidane Zainou Tangui +5 more
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How Video‐Based Information Affects Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Drone Services
ABSTRACT Professional service for digital technology like agricultural drones lowers transaction costs and scope thresholds for smallholders. Meanwhile, perceptual adoption barriers remain underexplored. We conduct a two‐stage choice experiment with a randomized video‐based information treatment among 384 Chinese crop farmers to measure its effect on ...
Hua Zhang +4 more
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Keeping Pace or Falling Behind? The Depth of Latin American Trade Agreements
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 +2 more
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Traditional villages are crucial for the sustainable development of both urban and rural areas, and identifying their spatial patterns is key to guiding village construction and promoting urban–rural integration.
Wei Wang, Anqi Liu, Xiaoxiao Xu
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Rural Labor Supply and Economic Opportunities: Commuting, Migration, Tariffs, and Immigration
ABSTRACT Some rural counties remain dependent on agricultural or manufacturing jobs, but an increasing proportion have diversified economics. Rural counties also differ in their abilities to commute to an urban market characterized by higher wages and labor productivity.
Peter F. Orazem, Mary C. Ahearn
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Farmers' Preferences for Gene Editing Crops and Influencing Factors
ABSTRACT Gene editing (GE) is gaining momentum worldwide, but limited data on UK farmers' preferences hinders our understanding of its potential impact amid deregulation debates. Based on a survey of 200 English arable farmers, we employ a Latent Class Analysis and Multinomial Logit regressions to investigate current preferences for GE crops.
Bertolozzi‐Caredio Daniele +1 more
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ABSTRACT This paper examines the relationship between participation in the EU Rural Development Program and the economic performance of Italian olive farms using a finite‐mixture model with inverse‐probability‐weighted regression adjustment. Based on 2010–2022 FADN panel data, it estimates heterogeneous treatment effects while correcting for selection ...
Francesco Caracciolo, Marilena Furno
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THE SOFT CITY CONCEPT AND POSSIBILITIES FOR ITS APPLICATION IN UKRAINE
The article examines the main ideas of the concept of a soft city set out in the homonymous book by David Sim. In its content, this concept represents a type of so-called “new urbanism” about how to build and make cities comfortable and resilient to ...
Pavlo BORSHCH, Oleksiy GNATIUK
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The study of commercial places and streets is one of the modern studies in economic geography. The importance of the subject is to shed light on the most important commercial streets in the city of Ramadi, which is Al-Mustawda street, and the goal is because it represents a place of functional attraction and spatial interaction by studying ...
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