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The political economy of reforming agricultural support policies
, 2023 Agricultural support policies cost more than US$800 billion per year in transfers to the farm sector worldwide. Support policies based on subsidies and trade barriers are highly distortive to markets and are also regressive as most support is provided to
Vos, Rob; Martin, Will; Resnick, Danielle +1 more
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An inexpensive method to measure latent toxoplasmosis and its behavioral consequences
Acta PsychologicaAn estimated 2.4 billion humans are affected by the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii, which causes one of the most common infections influencing human behavior and cognition. The infection and its effects are severely underresearched, because the diagnosis is
Anja Achtziger +2 more
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Exigency politics or new world order? [PDF]
Panoeconomicus, 2011 Since the onset of the current crisis, numerous intergovernmental organizations made declarations and plans, but only national packages were implemented to minimize adverse effects to real (national) economies.
Filipović Miroslava
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The Political Economy of Civil Society [PDF]
, 2012 The dichotomy between intended and unintended outcomes of individual and collective action is central to political economy. It concerns the relationship of markets and states and their link to the constitution of society.
Scazzieri, Roberto +2 more
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Consensus Formation and Change are Enhanced by Neutrality
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Neutral agents are shown to enhance both the formation and overturning of consensus in collective decision‐making. A general mathematical model and experiments with locusts and humans reveal that neutrality enables robust consensus via simple interactions and accelerates consensus change by reducing effective population size.
Andrei Sontag +3 more
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Integrated Reporting Quality, Tax Avoidance, and Sustainable Development: Evidence from South Africa
International Journal of Financial StudiesThis study examines the association between Integrated Reporting (IR) quality and tax avoidance among South African listed firms from 2012 to 2021, and whether this relationship differs across the highest and lowest levels of IR quality.
Sarah Yasser Abdel-Fattah +1 more
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Causative Factors of Downturn in Growth and Performance of Stock Markets in Pakistan
JISR Management and Social Sciences & Economics, 2011 In any economy, the stock market plays an important role by mobilizing domestic resources and channeling them toward productive investment. This implies that it has a significant relationship with the economy.
Kehar Khan Khoso
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia +4 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the world's population and the income from rice is an essential source for livelihoods of millions of households. We examine whether direct seed in rice production is an adaptation of rice farmers to rainfall changes and farm labor scarcity.
Manh Hung Do
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