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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes, Amanda M. Countryman, Dustin L. Pendell   +2 more
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Analysis of the Impact of Oil on the Political Structure of Iraq in the Framework of the Rentier State Theory

Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Science
Iraq is a sensitive and geopolitical region in the Middle East from a civilizational point of view, oil, as the most important source of income for the Iraqi government, which provides more than 90% of the annual budget of the government, and this had a ...
Sayeed Ahmad Khalid Sharifi, Taj Mohammad Majidi   +1 more
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DECENTRALIZATION OF POLITICAL STRUCTURE FROM THE NEW POLITICAL POIN OF VIEW

Ekonomia i Prawo, 2012
The aim of the article is to analyze decentralization political structure, under the corner of reduce economical incentives influence of organized interests on the distribution of public resources.
Marcin Kalinowski
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Temperature and Farm Labor in Nigeria

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We estimate the impact of temperature shocks on the composition of farm labor in rural Nigeria using a nationally representative household panel survey. Leveraging plausibly exogenous year‐to‐year variation in growing season temperatures, we find that warmer temperatures significantly alter farm labor composition, prompting a substantial shift
Andu Berha
wiley   +1 more source

Voting Behavior, Coalitions and Government Strength through a Complex Network Analysis [PDF]

, 2014
We analyze the network of relations between parliament members according to their voting behavior. In particular, we examine the emergent community structure with respect to political coalitions and government alliances. We rely on tools developed in the
Chessa, Alessandro, Maso, Carlo Dal, Pompa, Gabriele, Puliga, Michelangelo, Riotta, Gianni   +4 more
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Synergies in Agricultural Biodiversity Conservation: Decomposing the Interaction Between Nature Parks and Agri‐Environment Schemes

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding how policy instruments with overlapping goals interact is crucial for leveraging their synergies. This study explores the mechanisms for regional nature parks (a form of protected areas that impose no restrictions on agriculture) to enhance the adoption of biodiversity‐conserving agri‐environment schemes (AES) in Switzerland ...
Yanbing Wang, Christian Ritzel, Antonia Kaiser, Gabriele Mack   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Regional Settlement Patterns and Political Complexity in the Cinti Valley, Bolivia [PDF]

, 2004
Traditionally, scholars investigating prehispanic Andean polities and sociopolitical organization have worked from cross-cultural models of complex societies underlain by concepts of political hierarchy and centralized control.
Rivera Casanovas, Claudia
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Markets Mitigate Land‐Use Competition From Energy Crops and Increase Farm Revenues

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Meeting the US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge target of 35 billion gal annually by 2050 will require an estimated 380 million–700 million dry tons of agricultural biomass feedstock. This study evaluates the implications of large‐scale biomass production for land use, crop production, and market outcomes under mature market ...
Daniel G. De La Torre Ugarte, Matthew H. Langholtz, Chad M. Hellwinckel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Kenyan Farmers' Policy Priorities During Economic Crisis and Stability: Insights From a Best‐Worst Scaling Experiment

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, John Olwande, Jacob Ricker‐Gilbert, David L. Mather, Nicole M. Mason   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tabal Ülkesi’nin Politik ve İdarî Yapısı

Selçuk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 2010
Hitit İmparatorluğu’nun yıkılmasısonucu ortaya çıkan şehir devletleri içerisinde en batıda yer alanıTabal idi. Asur kaynaklarıve hiyeroglif yazıtların dağılım sahalarından hareketle, ülkenin coğrafî sınırlarının doğuda Malatya ve Gürün’den, batıda Tuz ...
Mehmet Kurt
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