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Resilience of Small Beef Packers and the USDA Meat Supply Chain Initiative
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We focus on the plant‐size resilience relationship among small beef packers during COVID‐19. Defining resilience as the ability to maintain or increase slaughter and non‐resilience as otherwise, we use survey and secondary data to estimate a logit model where resilience is a function of a plant's capacity and age in addition to labor condition
Sunil P. Dhoubhadel +2 more
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Social Ingredients and Conditional Convergence in the Study of Sectoral Growth [PDF]
In this research article, we investigate the improved modelling ability and the outstanding policy advocacy of infusing health and education in sectoral growth equations of the South African economy.
charlotte du Toit +2 more
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Ciências Sociais Unisinos, 2013 This article aims to present the results of research that investigates social policies for poverty reduction of the Cardoso, Lula and Rousseff terms of office from the perspective of theoretical currents on international modeling and Policy Diffusion ...
Samira Kauchakje
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Promoting renewable electricity generation in imperfect markets: price vs. quantity control [PDF]
The search for economically effcient policy instruments designed to promote the diffusion of renewable energy technologies in liberalized markets has led to the introduction of quota-based tradable `green' certifcate (TGC) schemes for renewable power ...
Peter Zweifel +2 more
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Alternative framework for the fair valuation of participating life insurance contracts [PDF]
, 2004 In this communication, we develop suitable valuation techniques for a with-profit/unitized with profit life insurance policy providing interest rate guarantees, when a jump-diffusion process for the evolution of the underlying reference portfolio is used.
Ballotta, L.
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate variability is affecting the productivity, profitability, and resilience of smallholder dairy producers in developing countries. The adoption of climate‐smart (CS) dairy practices has been promoted to mitigate these negative effects. However, while interest in dairy CS practices is growing, empirical evidence on their adoption patterns
Mercy Mburu +4 more
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Challenges of Exporting Differentiated Products to Developed Countries: The Case of SME-Dominated Sectors in a Semi-Industrialized Country [PDF]
This paper surveys four Argentinean industries—light ships, television programs, wines, and wooden furniture—that have experienced substantial export growth in recent years, particularly to developed countries.
Alejandro Artopoulos +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the determinants of generative AI (GenAI) knowledge and usage among agricultural extension professionals. Drawing on survey data from agricultural extension personnel in Tennessee, we employ regression analyses and latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) for topic modeling of open‐ended responses to study the knowledge and usage ...
Abdelaziz Lawani +3 more
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Research on the diffusion models and transfer characteristic of local big data policy in China
大数据, 2019 To reveal the development trend and content relevance of local big data policy in China,based on the theory of policy diffusion and policy transfer,the models of time-space diffusion and the characteristics of content transfer for 68 local big data ...
Wenyao DING +3 more
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Promoting renewable electricity generation in imperfect markets: price vs. quantity policies [PDF]
The search for economically efficient policy instruments designed to promote the diffusion of renewable energy technologies in liberalized markets has led to the introduction of quota-based tradable ‘green’ certificate (TGC) schemes for renewable ...
Ilja Neustadt +3 more
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