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Inequality in Higher Education: Why Did Expanding Access Not Reduce Skill Inequality?
Open Education Studies, 2020 Lack of comparable cross-country data on access to and participation into higher education (HE) among disadvantaged and marginalised communities prevents a comprehensive examination of the role of education in shaping social mobility and how this has ...
Borgonovi Francesca, Marconi Gabriele
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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan +3 more
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Methodology and issues of integral experiments selection for nuclear data validation
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2017 Nuclear data validation involves a large suite of Integral Experiments (IEs) for criticality, reactor physics and dosimetry applications. [1] Often benchmarks are taken from international Handbooks. [2, 3] Depending on the application, IEs have different
Tatiana Ivanova, Ivanov Evgeny, Hill Ian
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Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
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When did Latin America fall behind? : evidence from long-run international inequality [PDF]
, 2004 When did Latin America fall behind?. Has the gap between developed countries and Latin America widened over time?. This paper addresses these recurrent questions with the tools provided by the inequality literature.
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The US hemp market is a new and nascent industry that has been devoid of research for about half a century. This study examined the effects of exogenous shock on price at each phase of the value chain—Farm (hemp biomass), and its impact on prices at other phases of the value chain—Intermediary Processor (crude cannabidiol hemp) and Final ...
Solomon Odiase +2 more
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The Reorganization of Global Value Chains in East Asia before and after COVID-19
East Asian Economic Review, 2020 This paper provides empirical evidence on the reorganization of GVCs in East Asia, highlighting that structural trends explain a decrease in the fragmentation of production after 2011 but that it is not the result of rising trade costs along the value ...
Sebastien Miroudot
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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Role in International Law [PDF]
, 2012 The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has played, and continues to play, an important and largely unrecognized role as a lawmaking body.
Salzman, James
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AI in chemical engineering: From promise to practice
AIChE Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) in chemical engineering has moved from promise to practice: physics‐aware (gray‐box) models are gaining traction, reinforcement learning complements model predictive control (MPC), and generative AI powers documentation, digitization, and safety workflows.
Jia Wei Chew +4 more
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Labour Taxation in Poland Compared to the Other OECD Countries [PDF]
, 2014 The aim of the study is to identify the level and diversity of labour taxation, expressed by the so-called tax wedge, in Poland compared to the other OECD countries.
Kryńska, Elżbieta
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