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King and Cochrane: The technological treadmill and racial inequity in US agriculture
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Between 1920 and 1969, the number of Black farmers in the US decreased from 14% of all operators to 4%. Using Martin Luther King Jr.'s critique of agricultural policy and Willard Cochrane's theory of the technological treadmill, we explore how racial discrimination was linked to policies that led to structural change in US agriculture.
Jared Hutchins, Jacopo De Marinis
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Ecology and Society, 2014 Reversing ongoing declines in human welfare and biodiversity is at the core of human development. Although numerous institutions and avenues are in place to reverse such trends, there seems to be limited consideration of population growth as an ultimate ...
Camilo Mora
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Realism’s understanding of negative numbers [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2016 Our topic is the understanding of the nature of negative numbers - the entities to which expressions such as ‘-1’ refer. Following Frege, we view positive whole numbers as providing the answer to the question „how many?“ In this light, how are ...
Bojanić Petar, Todorović Sanja
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Does Foreign Debt have an Impact on Indonesia's Foreign Exchange Reserves?
Ekuilibrium: Jurnal Ilmiah Bidan Ilmu Ekonomi, 2021 Indonesia as one of the emerging market countries’ utilization of external resources of foreign debt to a boost in increasing economic growth in addition to international trade that supports accelerated growth Economy.
Dewi Mahrani Rangkuty, Muhammad Hidayat
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Debt reduction for poverty eradication in the least developed countries: Analysis and recommendations on LDC debt [PDF]
, 2001 This paper reviews the main obstacles to human and social development posed by the current external debt burdens of the least development countries.
European Network on Debt and Development
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Quantifying the land‐use change due to soybean‐based biodiesel in the United States
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract We quantify the impact of soybean oil‐based biodiesel production on US cropland, using a method that accounts for the intermediate effect of soybean crushing facilities. Based on U.S. Environmental Protection Agency data for biodiesel production and proprietary data for soybean crushing facilities over 2011–2020, we find that the elasticities ...
Ruiqing Miao +5 more
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The Debt Limit and the Constitution: How the Fourteenth Amendment Forbids Fiscal Obstructionism [PDF]
, 2013 The statutory debt limit restricts the funds that can be borrowed to meet the government\u27s financial obligations. On the other hand, the Fourteenth Amendment\u27s Public Debt Clause mandates that all the government\u27s financial obligations be met ...
Charles, Jacob D.
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper, we examine the impact of reducing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits on grocery purchases using data from Circana. We use an imputed difference‐in‐difference model to exploit state‐level variation in decisions to remove pandemic‐era SNAP emergency allotments to estimate the impact of such policies. We find
Kassandra Martinchek +3 more
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International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, 2019 The goal of this study is to determine how several financial indicators, such as Return on Assets (ROA), Debt to Equity Ratio (DER), Debt to Asset Ratio (DAR), Current Ratio (CR), business Size, and Dividend Payout Ratio (DPR), relate to business value ...
Asmaul Husna, Ibnu Satria
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Sovereign debt and its restructuring framework in the Euro area. Bruegel Working Paper 2013/05, August 2013 [PDF]
, 2013 To compensate for the inflexibility of fixed exchange rates, the euro area needs flexibility through a system of orderly debt restructuring. With virtually no room for macroeconomic manoeuvring since the crisis onset, fiscal austerity has been the main ...
Mody, Ashoka
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