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India–United States Agricultural Trade Under the America‐First Agenda

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines India–United States agricultural trade under the America‐First agenda, highlighting trade patterns, tariff structures, and potential impacts of United States trade policies. Total agricultural trade remains modest at $7 billion annually, with India imposing higher tariffs (average 39%) than the United States (5%).
Badri N. Gopalakrishnan, Munisamy Gopinath, Kannan Kumar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

EVALUATION OF THE INVESTMENT CLIMATE BASED ON FUZZY LOGIC

Green, Blue and Digital Economy Journal
The subject of the study is the investment climate of the country, region and investment attractiveness of the enterprise. The article is aimed at substantiating a fuzzy logical model for assessing the investment climate of a country, region and ...
Liliia Shevchenko
doaj   +1 more source

The Firms Speak: What the World Business Environment Survey Tells Us about Constraints on Private Sector Development [PDF]

This chapter summarizes the salient results of the World Business Environment Survey (WBES). It shows that important dimensions of the climate for business operation and investment can be measured, analyzed, and compared across countries, and that ...
Batra, Geeta, Kaufmann, Daniel, Stone, Andrew H. W.   +2 more
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Efficiency and Technology Gap in European Apple Production—A Metafrontier Model for Germany, Italy, and Poland

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
wiley   +1 more source

INCREASING THE REGIONAL INVESTMENT ATTRACTION BY PREPARING AND HOLDING OF LARGE SPORTS EVENTS

Russian Journal of Economics and Law, 2012
The work is devoted to the study of the regional investment attraction factors, as well as grounding the modern techniques of its increasing by holding large sports events of international scale by the example of Universiade 2013 in Kazan.
V. A. Leonov
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Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

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, Francis Tsiboe, Ayobami Adetoyinbo, Jacob Ankamah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improving Investment Climates

, 2004
(covering the activities of IBRD/IDA), the Operations Evaluation Group (covering IFC), and the Operations Evaluation Unit (covering MIGA). The purpose of the evaluation is to assess the effectiveness of the World Bank Group (WBG) in helping its member countries improve their investment climates, within the context of the WBG’s overall mission of ...
openaire   +1 more source

Quasi-option value and climate policy choices [PDF]

In the climate change issue, the environmental irreversibility (risk of an acceleration of mitigation policies if the worse happen) has to be balanced with the investment irreversibility (risk of over-cautious policies).
Minh Ha-Duong
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Decarbonization Investment Strategies in an Uncertain Climate

Earth's Future
The Paris Agreement established that global warming should be limited to “well below” 2 °C and encouraged efforts to limit warming to 1.5 °C. Achieving this goal presents a challenge, especially given (a) adjustment costs, which penalize a swift ...
Adam Michael Bauer, Florent McIsaac, Stéphane Hallegatte   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reforming the investment climate : lessons for practitioners [PDF]

Most people agree that a good investment climate is essential for growth and poverty reduction. Less clear is how to achieve it. Many reforms are complex, involving more than technical design and content.
Kenyon,Thomas, Kikeri, Sunita, Palmade, Vincent   +2 more
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