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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan +3 more
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Roundtable Topic: What has the job-seeking process been like for you?
Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 2017 Welcome to our fourth Roundtable, where we ask practitioners to write in with their responses to a new question each issue. This time we asked for your tips, tricks, commiserations, and stories on the job hunt - whether you’re in it now, just completed a
Kailey Brisbin +6 more
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Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2023 The space physics research community is not diverse. This is especially true at the senior experience levels, but is even true for our student populations, which are also not matching the demographics of the general public. Striving towards a demographic
Michael W. Liemohn +5 more
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The recruitment and assessment process implemented by Workforce Resource, Inc. [PDF]
, 2000 Plan AThe purpose of this research was to determine the efficacy of the tools employed by Workforce Resource, Inc. to assist Andersen Corporation's Menomonie facility in the hiring of their production associates. Workforce Resource, Inc., assists Company'
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli +2 more
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Roundtable: What is Holding Librarianship Back from Being more Inclusive of Visible Minorities
Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 2018 For this issue, we asked three librarians and one MLIS candidate to respond to the following question: “According to Statistics Canada, 19.1% of the Canadian population identify themselves as visible minorities, but in the CAPAL census, only 9.1% of ...
Tamara Noor +4 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT EU member states have exhibited varying rates of apple production growth. Technical efficiency (TE) estimation is suitable for identifying best‐practice farm performance. This study examined whether the development of the apple sector in Germany, Italy, and Poland was influenced by production efficiency, access to technology, as well as ...
Anika Muder, Jakub Staniszewski
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Freelancing in Croatia: Differences among Regions, Company Sizes, Industries and Markets
Business Systems Research, 2021 Background: Freelancers have a significant impact on economic growth due to their specific skills that are nowadays often used as complements to the regular full-time workforce of a company, not as their competition.
Žunac Ana Globočnik +2 more
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Weight-based discrimination in occupational hiring and helping behavior
, 2008 This study explored weight-based discrimination using a range of weight categories, as represented by images of real women with known body mass index (BMI).
Swami, V. +4 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor +3 more
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