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The Cost of a Nutritious Diet in Cafeterias: Evidence From US Military Dining Facilities
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Providing nutritious meals in institutional settings with financial constraints, such as military dining facilities, is challenging. The US Department of War (DoW) and US Department of Agriculture (USDA) collaborated to modernize the Basic Daily Food Allowance (BDFA) using an optimization model that incorporates service members' consumption ...
Linlin Fan +8 more
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The Theory of Political Development
, 2009 Now almost entirely forgotten, perhaps because replaced or superseded by democratization, the wealth of studies on political development contained quite a number of theoretical threads.
PASQUINO, GIANFRANCO
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On the Economics of US Agricultural Policy
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents an economic analysis of US agricultural policy, building on a modified version of Gardner's efficient redistribution. We argue that agricultural policy is motivated as an attempt to implement an efficient redistribution scheme that redistributes income toward farmers who, as a group, have been adversely affected by ...
Jean‐Paul Chavas
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International Political Economy and Security [PDF]
, 2016 International Studies is a multidisciplinary field, which includes a long and rich tradition of studying both the political economy conditions of war, peace and security, and the impact of security concerns and war on economic developments.
Patomäki, Heikki Olavi
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Drivers of Precision Agriculture Adoption in Italian Viticulture
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the main drivers influencing the adoption of two types of precision farming technologies in the viticultural sector: Decision Support Systems (DSSs) and Variable Rate Technologies (VRTs). We apply a partial proportional odds model and find that socio‐demographic characteristics are not significant determinants of adoption ...
Olimpia Fontana +3 more
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Ukraine: The New Stage in Political Development
Проблемы постсоветского пространства, 2017 The political processes triggered in Ukraine in late November 2013 led to radical changes in the country. The protests targeted initially against the policy of the government that abandoned the EU association have grown into coup.
Sergey Sergeevich Zhiltsov
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The Political Development of the South Caucasus Countries at the current stage
Проблемы постсоветского пространстваAfter the collapse of the Soviet Union, the countries of the South Caucasus faced a complex transformation of political processes. The process of state building in these countries took place against the backdrop of painful armed conflicts, socio-economic
L. M. Aleksanyan
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How Video‐Based Information Affects Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Drone Services
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Professional service for digital technology like agricultural drones lowers transaction costs and scope thresholds for smallholders. Meanwhile, perceptual adoption barriers remain underexplored. We conduct a two‐stage choice experiment with a randomized video‐based information treatment among 384 Chinese crop farmers to measure its effect on ...
Hua Zhang +4 more
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ROLE OF THE VERHOVNA RADA IN POLITICAL PROCESSES OF UKRAINE (2013-2015)
Проблемы постсоветского пространства, 2017 In article the role of the Verkhovna Rada in political processes which happened in Ukraine since November, 2013 is considered. The main attention is paid to research of a position of the Ukrainian parliament on domestic and foreign policy.
K. G. Ilinova
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Historic memory in the political processes of the Post-soviet Baltic states
Сравнительная политика, 2016 : After gaining independence in 1991 the ruling elites of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia actively used historical questions in the course of state building.
Andrey S. Skachkov
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