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Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen, Gashaw T. Abate, Seid Yimam, Rui Benfica, David J. Spielman, Frank Place   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Code of Conduct for arbitrators in CETA : a step forward in investment arbitration? [PDF]

, 2015
This paper presents the Code of Conduct for arbitrators in CETA, which will apply to investor-state dispute settlement initiated under Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement concluded between the European Union and Canada.
Horodyski, Dominik
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Redistributive land reforms, agricultural productivity, and structural change: New cross‐national evidence

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra, Abdulaziz B. Shifa, Lan Anh Tong, Mehmet A. Ulubasoglu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Aron Broches, Selected Essays: World Bank, ICSID and Other Subjects of Public and Private International Law [PDF]

, 1995
With the possible exception of international peace and security, global economic development has been the dominant theme in international law and international relations since the end of the Second World War.
Essien, Victor
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A community‐driven approach to address substance use and create a Great Plains American Indian addiction and recovery research agenda

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Substance use, specifically opioid and methamphetamine use, is of increasing concern among American Indian (AI) populations in the Great Plains. This community‐driven participatory study investigated the impacts of substance use and community‐defined needs in treating addiction.
Brynn Luger, Anna Kihlström, Brinda Sivaramakrishnan, Allison Kelliher, Frankie Kropp, Carmen Rosa, T. John Winhusen, Donald Warne, the CTN0129 participating Tribal communities   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Application of the rules of customary international law in the practice of investor–state arbitral tribunals

Правоприменение
The subject. Аt the beginning of the 21st century the growing interest of the parties to the dispute and the arbitral tribunals in the rules of customary international law became apparent.
S. D. Pimenova
doaj   +1 more source

A New Generation of International Adjudication [PDF]

, 2012
This Article challenges the conventional view of contemporary international adjudication. It identifies a new generation of international tribunals, which has been largely ignored by commentators, and argues that these tribunals offer a highly successful,
Born, Gary
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source

The (Political) Economics of Bilateral Investment Treaties—The Unique Trajectory of Brazil

Economies
Brazil, after signing several traditional Bilateral Investment Treaties without ratifying them, recently shifted towards a different type of bilateral investment agreement, i.e., Investment Cooperation and Facilitation Agreements.
Christian Bellak, Markus Leibrecht
doaj   +1 more source

Positing for balancing: investment treaty rights and the rights of citizens [PDF]

, 2011
Substantive bilateral investment treaty (BIT) rules have the potential to undermine the rights to health, safety and the environment of the citizens of host States if stricter State regulations to protect these rights amount to regulatory expropriation ...
Ghouri, Ahmad Ali
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