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African Studies QuarterlyRegional economic integration has long been recognized as a key strategy for enhancing trade, fostering economic development, and strengthening the bargaining power of developing regions. In this context, the establishment of the African Continental Free
Moses O. Ogutu
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Inter-American Development Bank Annual Report 2008: The Year in Review
, 2009 This Annual Report 2008: A Year in Review contains a review of the Bank\u27s operations in 2008, loans, guarantees and grants, and in a separate volume, Management\u27s Discussion and Analysis: Ordinary Capital; the financial statements of the Bank; and ...
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Trade and Integration Monitor 2012: Trade Performance and Policies after the Crisis [PDF]
, 2012 This document inaugurates a series of annual reports that will periodically monitor the state of the region\u27s integration in the global economy. These reports will build on an extensive body of quantitative information made available to the public ...
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Do More Open Economies Export Less Diversely in Brazilian Agribusiness?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper asks whether municipalities with a larger export‐to‐revenue ratio display a more concentrated bundle of exported goods in Brazilian agribusiness. Recent advances in export imputation for Brazilian municipalities allow for an analysis of the concentration profile of each municipality and its association with export openness.
Alan Leal, Michelle Marcia Viana Martins
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The development of food logistics system to support food security and rice price stabilisation: A case study of Banten Province [PDF]
BIO Web of ConferencesThe disruption of the global rice trade caused by climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, and geopolitical tensions has the potential to harm food security and the stability of domestic rice prices.
Mailena Lira +7 more
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Does Contract Farming Reduce Pesticide Use? Panel Data Evidence From Smallholder Farmers in China
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The inappropriate and excessive use of pesticides poses a major threat to human and ecosystem health in the agri‐food sector. While existing studies have examined the potential of contract farming to address this issue, most have focused on large‐scale farms and relied on small or transactional datasets, often leaving the role of crop‐specific
Zhihui Liang, Shan Jin, Matthew Gorton
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Inter-Regional and Intra-Regional Trade in East Asia: Recent Developments and Aggregate Bilateral Trade Elasticities [PDF]
Journal of Economic Integration, 2003 East Asian countries have experienced dynamic structural change in regional trade during the 1990s. While intra-regional trade rapidly progressed within the region after the financial crisis, Asia accounts for a large portion of inter-regional trade volume, even after the crisis. In this paper, examinations of how interregional and intra-regional trade
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Search for a New Partnership in Trade and Investment between Latin America and Asia-Pacific [PDF]
, 2001 Although interregional cooperation in trade and investment between Latin America and Asia-Pacific has been on the agendas of countries in both regions for some time, initiatives have been few, with meager results.
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Drought Exposure and Dynamic Input Adjustment in North Central U.S. Agriculture
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines whether realized extreme drought episodes affect the speed of adjustment of derived input demands and output supplies toward their long‐run equilibrium in U.S. agriculture, focusing on states in the North Central Region.
Victor H. Lana Pinto +2 more
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Integration & Trade Journal: Volume 18: No. 38: January-June, 2014
, 2014 The Inter-American Development Bank, in the context of its integration mandate in the region, has been working and supporting development actions in border areas and transboundary cooperation and integration by the creation of binational and regional ...
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