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Frontiers in Political ScienceSince 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
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.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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TOWARDS A SOCIAL DIMENSION OF THE COMMERCIAL GEOGRAPHY
, 2006 Commercial geography and geography for economics - At the beginning of the 20th century the commercial geography “both comprehended and coincided with the entire dominium of what, nowadays, we call economic geography” (Nice, 1964, p. 387), later on it
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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 +2 more
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Vulture Capitalism: A Partial Geography of Sovereign Debt Markets (1970–2021)
, 2023 By 2020, low-and-middle-income countries’ debt reached US$ 2.2 trillion as governments grappled with the fiscal shocks associated with COVID-19. The growth of sovereign debt levels occurs amidst a changing creditor landscape.
Kaufman, Andrew
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Decoding the Formation of a Retail Giant: the Evolving Geography of Costco’s Store Network [PDF]
, 2015 Although Costco operates over 580 warehouse stores throughout North America, their location strategy remains relatively unexamined in the economic geography literature.
Testa, Peter (Commercial real estate advisor)
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Assessing Photovoltaic Recycling Capacities and Policy Gaps in the European Union
Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.This study maps photovoltaic recycling capacity in the EU and key global regions, highlighting gaps between growing waste volumes and available infrastructure. It combines survey insights and policy analysis to identify recycling bottlenecks and offers recommendations to boost circularity in the solar sector.
Nieves Espinosa +3 more
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Seeds from Paradise: The Rise of Hawaii's Seed Corn Industry [PDF]
, 2014 My thesis traces the emergence of Hawaii's seed corn industry (HSCI), an industry that consists of seed corporations conducting seed corn improvement. The second chapter follows the political economic development of corn and the emergence of contemporary
Schrager, Benjamin
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A Good Act of Contrition?Geography, Civilisational Thinking, and the Colonial Present [PDF]
, 2008 There exists a growing interest in the complicity of geographical knowledge and practice in the colonisation by European powers of territories in Latin America, Asia, and Africa.1 In particular, the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century ...
Boyle, Mark
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LandTraditional 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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