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“Favoring those who contributed to their political campaigns”: an analysis of the incentives received by the food industry in Colombia in the period of 2018—2020

Globalization and Health
Summary The food industry is a very influential actor in public health policies in Colombia. In particular, industry incentives, such as financial donations and other gifts to political parties, can help develop future alliances and initiate an exchange ...
María Alejandra Niño Duque, Emanuel Orozco Núñez, Eliana María Pérez Tamayo, Mélissa Mialon, Eric Crosbie, Christian Paul Torres de la Rosa   +5 more
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Lost ground, lost value: Investigating the relationship between soil erosion and agricultural land value

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the impact of soil erosion on agricultural land values in the United States (US) Midwest. Based on a novel county‐level panel data set with information on soil erosion levels and agricultural land values covering five census years (1997, 2002, 2007, 2012, and 2017), we separately investigate the direct effect of two types ...
Le Chen, Roderick M. Rejesus, Hongqiang Yan, Serkan Aglasan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen, Gashaw T. Abate, Seid Yimam, Rui Benfica, David J. Spielman, Frank Place   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pharmaceutical Prices and Political Activity [PDF]

Drug prices have been a conspicuous political issue in much of recent history, but no more so than during health care reform debates in 1993 and 1994.
Catherine Wolfram, Sara Fisher Ellison
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The Relationship between Corporate Political Strategy of Public Partnership and Corporate Investment

Foresight and STI Governance
This research endeavors to elucidate the dynamics between Corporate Political Activity (CPA) and corporate investment by harnessing advanced econometric techniques, specifically quantile regression and dynamic panel data analysis.
Lin Woon Leong, Kelvin Lee Yong Ming, Pek Chuen Khee, Irfah Najihah Binti Basir Malan, Ho Ree Chan   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Corporate Political Activity: An Integrated Model

Asian Social Science, 2015
This paper reviews the current state of research in the area of corporate political activity to build an integrated model. This model segregates the related but scattered corporate political activity constructs in literature into enablers, motivators, moderators, choices, and outcomes of corporate political activity.
Vivek Kumar, Munish Thakur, Saroj Kumar Pani   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Lost in aggregation? On the importance of local food price data for food poverty estimates

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores within‐country variations in food price dynamics and food poverty estimates by employing local market price data and national consumer price index (CPI) data. Our results show that national CPI data may be useful for approximating national trends but they fail to detect and identify spatial variations in local trends, which
Stephan Dietrich, Valerio Giuffrida, Bruno Martorano, Georg Schmerzeck, Marco Tiberti   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate change and perennial crop production: Evidence of yield impact and adaptation in California

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Perennial crops are economically important. They contribute to food security, providing essential nutrients that are often lacking in annual crops, and provide additional environmental benefits compared with annual crops. Despite their importance, empirical research on the impacts of climate change and adaptation on perennial crops remains ...
Yuanyuan Wen, Wei Zhang, Julian M. Alston   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sheltering Corporate Assets from Political Extraction [PDF]

We hypothesize that firms structure their asset holdings so as to shelter assets from extraction by politicians and bureaucrats. In countries where the threat of political extraction is higher, we hypothesize that firms hold a lower fraction of their ...
Mara Faccio, Lorenzo Caprio, John J. McConnell   +2 more
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Developing adaptive political capabilities for high political uncertainty contexts :a study of strategic responses in the international operations of food firms in Latin America [PDF]

, 2014
The corporate political activity field has focused on the study of political capabilities that allow firms to influence governments and regulators. Building on previous studies, this thesis examines a set of capabilities that allow host firms to adapt
de Villa, Maria Andrea
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