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Analyzing current and future levels of cigarette affordability under the Philippine Sin Tax Law (RA 10351)

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background The five-year old Philippine Sin Tax Law (RA 10351) is recognized as a global model. With the upcoming Congressional review, which can be a venue to either weaken or proactively improve the law, it is crucial to analyze its current and future
Madeiline Joy Aloria, Jo-Ann Diosana, Filomeno Sta. Ana   +2 more
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Impact of Economic Policy Uncertainty on Renewable Energy Growth

Energy RESEARCH LETTERS, 2021
This study examines the effect of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on renewable energy (RE) growth for 20 countries using data for the 2000 to 2018 period. Our findings indicate that EPU has an insignificant negative effect on RE growth.
Isaac Appiah‐Otoo
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Root causes of underutilisation of assisted agricultural machinery on rice production in Indonesia [PDF]

BIO Web of Conferences
Several studies have shown that government-assisted agricultural machinery to increase rice production is underutilised optimally. This study aims to identify the problem of this non-optimality.
Setiyanto Adi, Dabukke Frans B.M., Astari Annisa F., Azis Miftahul, Sinuraya Julia F., Ulpah Amalia   +5 more
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Economic policy uncertainty, investor sentiment and financial stability—an empirical study based on the time varying parameter-vector autoregression model

Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, 2021
This paper applies the time varying parameter-vector autoregression model to explore the dynamic relationship between economic policy uncertainty, investor sentiment and financial stability in China in different periods and at different time points.
Xin-Zhou Qi, Zhong Ning, Meng Qin
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Global and national food security issues in the context of land and water resources [PDF]

Caspian Journal of Environmental Sciences, 2020
The article discusses the issues of ensuring food security, considering the national and global levels. The subject of the analysis is agriculture, which has always been strategically important in terms of ensuring food security.
Anatolij Nikolaevich Makarov, Elena Vladimirovna Maksyutina, Kaysyn Azretovich Hubiev, Aydar Damirovich Gimadeev   +3 more
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Is the Availability of Informal Care Associated with a Lower Uptake in Formal Home Care? An Application to Personal Care in the Netherlands

Journal of Long-Term Care, 2021
Context: Long-term care (LTC) costs within member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) are rising steeply, thereby presenting a challenge to the financial sustainability of most LTC systems.
Daisy Duell, Marielle Non, Anne Marieke Braam, Lara Leloup, France Portrait   +4 more
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Transporting and Storing High-Level Nuclear Waste in the U.S.—Insights from a Mathematical Model

Applied Sciences, 2019
The nuclear industry in the United States of America has accumulated about 70,000 metric tons of high-level nuclear waste over the past decades; at present, this waste is temporarily stored close to the nuclear power plants.
Sebastian Wegel, Victoria Czempinski, Pao-Yu Oei, Ben Wealer   +3 more
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The Labour Market Situation of Population Groups in the Visegrád Countries

Comparative Economic Research
The paper presents the results of an analysis of selected population groups in the labour markets of the Visegrád Group (V4) countries (i.e., Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) from 2015 to 2020.
Łukasz Arendt, Leszek Kucharski, Iwona Kukulak‑Dolata, Anna Rutkowska   +3 more
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Strategy to accelerate the implementation of sustainable food agricultural land protection regulations [PDF]

BIO Web of Conferences
Sustainable food agricultural land (especially paddy fields) is an important issue because it affects national food self-sufficiency, security, and sovereignty. The government has issued Law No.
Ar-Rozi Ahmad M., Suryani Erma, Adawiyah Cut R., Dabukke Frans B.M., Sarwani Muhrizal   +4 more
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Technical efficiency of rice productivity in Indonesia [PDF]

BIO Web of Conferences
The government has provided a lot of assistance to increase rice productivity. However, studies in this area are still rare. This study aims to determine the level of technical efficiency of various types of agricultural machinery assistance and ...
Sinuraya Julia F., Ulpah Amalia, Setiyanto Adi, Astari Annisa F., Dabukke Frans B.M.   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source