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Généalogie des modèles de la libéralisation

Oléagineux, Corps gras, Lipides, 2006
Many econometric models are providing a scientific guarantee in support of full trade liberalisation. This is an old tradition, as old as the 18th century “physiocrates” (those who wanted a “natural law” governing economy.
Boussard Jean-Marc
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Causal analysis of trade loss from pathogens: A global study of foot and mouth disease impacts on meat exports

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Our general interest is in global trade loss from livestock pathogens, specifically exports. We adopt a causal inference approach that considers animal disease outbreaks over time as non‐staggered binary treatments with the potential for switching in (infection) and out of treatment (recovery) within the sample period. The outcome evolution of
Mohammad Maksudur Rahman, Thomas L. Marsh   +1 more
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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
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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Illustration d'une approche type de valorisation d'un nouveau produit. Cas du triticale en Tunisie [PDF]

Biotechnologie, Agronomie, Société et Environnement, 2003
Economic opportunity of triticale production in the cereal producing farms of northern Tunisia: case of the Agrocombinat Koudiat at Bousalem. The present study aims to elucidate the economics of triticale use in the production system dominated by cereals
Gharbi F., Thebet B., Gharbi M. S.
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Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood, Christopher Phelps, Silvia Salazar, Rachel Ong ViforJ   +3 more
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Improving the Expansion of Electricity Services Considering Affordability Issues: A Case Study in Brazilian Low-Income Households

Energies
The assurance of universal access to electricity refers to not only physical access to electricity, heating, and/or cooling services but also making them affordable to families.
Juliani Chico Piai Paiva, Sandra Maria Almeida Cordeiro, Kleverton Clóvis de Oliveira Saath, Gilberto de Martino Jannuzzi   +3 more
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Climate econometric models indicate solar geoengineering would reduce inter-country income inequality. [PDF]

Nat Commun, 2020
Harding AR, Ricke K, Heyen D, MacMartin DG, Moreno-Cruz J.   +4 more
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Regional Shopping Objectives in British Grocery Retail Transactions Using Segmented Topic Models

Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding the customer behaviours behind transactional data has high commercial value in the grocery retail industry. Customers generate millions of transactions every day, choosing and buying products to satisfy specific shopping needs.
Mariflor Vega Carrasco, Mirco Musolesi, Jason O'Sullivan, Rosie Prior, Ioanna Manolopoulou   +4 more
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Two quantitative forecasting methods for macroeconomic indicators in Czech Republic

Annals of Spiru Haret University Economic Series, 2012
Econometric modelling and exponential smoothing techniques are two quantitative forecasting methods with good results in practice, but the objective of the research was to find out which of the two techniques are better for short run predictions ...
Mihaela BRATU (SIMIONESCU)
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