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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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Towards a "Global" Political Risk Analysis
, 2014 The purpose of this paper is to test the relevance of the globalization variable for Political Risk Analysis (PRA). The concept of political risk and the analysis methodology adopted and used in PRA are extremely heterogeneous, varying profoundly case by
M. Vitale, MARCHETTI, RAFFAELE
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Accounting for animal health in efficiency analysis: An application to Swedish dairy farms
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Poor animal health is a central concern in modern livestock production. Despite the necessity to incorporate animal health in efficiency analysis, the theoretical and empirical developments are limited on this subject. This article appropriately characterizes the axiomatic properties of animal health within a production framework.
Frederic Ang +3 more
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Political Risk and Regulatory Risk: Issues in Emerging Markets Infrastructure Concessions [PDF]
Political and regulatory risks, cause damage to countries and investors because of investment diminishing. When investments take place, those could increase services prices. Present work has as its objectives to characterize theoretically the problem, to
Ferro, Gustavo
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An innovative approach to the assessment of hydro-political risk: A spatially explicit, data driven indicator of hydro-political issues. [PDF]
Glob Environ Change, 2018 Farinosi F +7 more
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Food inflation pass‐through from agricultural imports in a small open economy
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This paper develops a new framework for quantifying cost pass‐through in a small open economy by estimating firm‐level markup responses to agricultural import price shocks. We show theoretically that markup adjustments depend on firms' reliance on imported inputs and demand curvature, generating heterogeneous inflationary effects across firm ...
Minseong Kang, Seungki Lee
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Political Risk Versus Market Risk in Social Security [PDF]
Pay-as-you-go Social Security is typically characterized as a universal defined benefit pension program. Implicit in this characterization is a sense that the participant%u2019s investment in future benefits is somehow guaranteed, or safe from risk. This
John B. Shoven, Sita N. Slavov
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