Abstract Straw returning is important for rural ecological management and sustainable agricultural development. Using farm survey data for Anhui Province, China, in 2020, we applied the double‐hurdle model to investigate the impact of agricultural machinery services and land fragmentation on farmers' straw‐returning behavior, and to explore the ...
Xin Wang, Yanping Song, Wei Huang
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Policies and Investments to Address Climate Change and Air Quality in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Region [PDF]
Asian Development Bank
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Innovation policy in Ireland and Northern Ireland, 1991 to 2001 – the changing face of enterprise-level financial incentives for R&D [PDF]
Systemic thinking on innovation policy highlights the breadth of policies which can influence innovation e.g. skills, inward investment, enterprise, regulation and competition policy.
Bernadette Andreosso-O'Callaghan +2 more
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Effect of risk and incentives on contracts: The case of farm operators in Iowa
Abstract Longitudinal data on Iowa landowner–operator contracts are used to examine how the mean, variance, and skewness of expected farmland returns affected contract terms from 2008 to 2019. To control for unobserved operator risk preferences and ability as a fixed effect, the sample includes operators with multiple contracts.
Jun Yeong Lee
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Next Steps for Elevating Health on Trade and Investment Policy Agendas Comment on "How Neoliberalism Is Shaping the Supply of Unhealthy Commodities and What This Means for NCD Prevention". [PDF]
Townsend B.
europepmc +1 more source
Fiscal Policy and Private Investment in Less Developed Countries [PDF]
Private investment, Public investment, Fiscal policy ...
Hermes, Niels, Lensink, Robert
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Where Should Europe’s Investment Path Lead?: Reflections on August Reinisch, “Quo Vadis Europe?” [PDF]
Relative to the past policies of its Member States, will the European Union’s new comprehensive international investment policy constitute a step forward, a step backward, or a perpetuation of the status quo?
Maupin, Julie A.
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Product differentiation in the fruit industry: Lessons from trademarked apples
Abstract We derive price premiums for patented or trademarked apple varieties, also known as “club apples,” compared to open‐variety apples. We use an expansive retail scanner dataset, along with unique data on apple taste characteristics, to estimate monthly club apple premiums for 2008–2018.
Modhurima Dey Amin +3 more
wiley +1 more source
Private investment under macroeconomic adjustment in Morocco [PDF]
A significant domestic counterpart of Morocco's vigorous external adjustment in the eighties was a decline in fixed capital formation, of which the private sector bore a sizable share.
Muller, Tobias, Schmidt-Hebbel, Klaus
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