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Sustainable water supply systems in India: The role of financial institutions and ethical perspective [PDF]
Spatium, 2011 Water is a scarce resource and an important basic necessity for the human survival. The quantity of potable water on earth is limited and its availability per person is reducing day by day due to increase in global population and damage to ...
Gowda Krishne, Doddaswamy Ravishankar
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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor +3 more
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Why Reform Fails: The ‘Politics of Policies’ in Costa Rican Telecommunications Liberalization
European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2008 As the ‘Washington Consensus’ reforms lose momentum, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is calling to shift the focus from the content of policy choices to the political process of their implementation. The analysis of the paradigmatic case of
Bert Hoffmann
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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 +5 more
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MODERN MECHANISMS OF FOREIGN TRADE LIBERALIZATION
International Journal of Innovative Technologies in Economy, 2018 In a market economy, countries seek to maximize the benefits of international exchange within their capacities. Small countries, unable to change world trade conditions for their benefit, liberalize markets in anticipation of benefiting from increased ...
Pakhlyan A. A.
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Liberalizing Agricultural Trade: Will It Ever Be a Reality?
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2003 The World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Agriculture was signed in June 1994. It accomplished two things: it brought agricultural trade under the rules of WTO, and it set schedules for reducing barriers to trade under the three pillars of ...
Alex F. McCalla
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While industry platforms are widely recognized as enablers of circular innovation, we still know little about how they evolve to scale and sustain innovation as economic conditions tighten and circular economy funding schemes become more selective.
Eva Qi Wang +3 more
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As global climate ambitions intensify, the key challenge lies not in setting renewable energy targets but in designing governance systems that can translate them into lasting transformation. The transition management literature has advanced a valuable research agenda for initiating change through niche innovations and participatory arenas in ...
Alexander L. Q. Chen‐Florea +2 more
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Short-Run Pain, Long-Run Gain: The Effects of Financial Liberalization [PDF]
We examine the short- and long-run effects of financial liberalization on capital markets. To do so, we construct a new comprehensive chronology of financial liberalization in 28 mature and emerging economies since 1973. We also construct an algorithm to
Graciela Kaminsky, Sergio Schmukler
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For the Few, Not the Many: Tracing the Residualist and Compensatory Nature of British Energy Support
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Drawing on extensive documentary analysis, this article traces the evolution of British energy policy support since World War II. It analyses shifts in policy design through two interpretive lenses: eligibility (residualist vs. universalist) and function (compensatory vs. preventive).
T. M. Croon +4 more
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