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Hemp Cultivation and Crop Diversification: Implications for Ecosystem Services in Kentucky

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the ecosystem benefits of expanding hemp cultivation by assessing its impact on crop diversity. Using scenario‐based simulations and fixed‐effect panel regressions with county‐level data in Kentucky, we find that increased hemp acreage tends to enhance crop diversity, improving water quality and bird diversity.
Yunsun Park, Seong D. Yun, Brandy E. Phipps, Tyler Mark, Craig Schluttenhofer   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can the EU Be Democratised? : A Political Economy Analysis [PDF]

, 2014
The decline in confidence in the EU during the euro crisis is verging on a legitimation crisis. A political economy analysis of the disparities and contradictions of the EMU points strongly towards alternative and more empowered EU-institutions.
Patomäki, Heikki
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Comparative law in a multipolar world

Известия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: Общественные науки
Background. Comparative law has served as a reliable reference point for disclosing legal reality in the last two centuries. However, the entry of our Planet into the stages of postmodernization and globalization forces us to take a fresh look at the ...
A.D. Gulyakov, A.Yu. Salomatin
doaj   +1 more source

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

Chinese Trade Competition and Rural Mexican Migration

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT China's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001 reshaped global trade, reducing U.S. demand for Mexican manufactured goods and weakening Mexico's manufacturing employment. This study estimates how this trade‐induced decline affected migration and employment decisions among rural Mexicans.
Zachariah Rutledge, Joaquin Mayorga
wiley   +1 more source

State-Owned Enterprises Reform and Dual Office Holding: A Comparative Legal and Governance Analysis of Indonesia and Selected African Countries

Pattimura Legal Journal
Introduction: State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) play a crucial role in national economic development, yet many face inefficiency, political interference, and governance challenges.
Shanti Wulandari, Uche Nnawulezi
doaj   +1 more source

Designing Social Inquiry in Central Asia – A Case Study of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan [PDF]

Studies of Transition States and Societies, 2013
Central Asia offers a potential smorgasbord for researchers engaged in comparative analysis. Common shared characteristics of these states have provided and continue to provide opportunities for advances in our understanding of political and social ...
Robert Kevlihan
doaj  

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, Oranuch Wongpiyabovorn   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

21st Century Migration: Opportunity, Calamity or Weapon of War? A Critical Discourse Analysis

RUDN Journal of Public Administration, 2020
Migration flows from the Global South is one of most pertinent sociopolitical issues influencing 21st century geopolitics with wider connotations to social, cultural and political developments in modern world. Issues originating from mass migration, were
Marko Beck
doaj   +1 more source

Rural Labor Supply and Economic Opportunities: Commuting, Migration, Tariffs, and Immigration

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source