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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan +3 more
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TEACHER’S APPRECIATION: POLITICAL PRIORITY, TENSION OR UNCERTAINTY? [PDF]
Cadernos de PesquisaThe article aims to analyze the representations of teacher appreciation by senior Pedagogy students. In the first part, we reflect on teacher appreciation in educational policies, based on the description of the teaching profession in Brazil and its ...
Romilda Teodora Ens +3 more
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The Effects of Political Versus Actuarial Uncertainty on Insurance Market Stability
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2020 Market stabilization is a critical regulatory challenge for the private insurance component of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Initially ACA market instability was due largely to the actuarial uncertainty associated with new market conditions for which ...
Mark A. Hall
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India–United States Agricultural Trade Under the America‐First Agenda
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines India–United States agricultural trade under the America‐First agenda, highlighting trade patterns, tariff structures, and potential impacts of United States trade policies. Total agricultural trade remains modest at $7 billion annually, with India imposing higher tariffs (average 39%) than the United States (5%).
Badri N. Gopalakrishnan +2 more
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The Political Economy of Infrastructure Investment: Competition, Collusion and Uncertainty [PDF]
Infrastructure, as it impacts transport costs, is crucial in determining equilibrium outcomes in spatial competition; however, infrastructure investment is typically exogenous.
Arghya Ghosh, Kieron Meagher
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Outspoken Insiders: Political Connections and Citizen Participation in Authoritarian China
, 2017 Few political systems are completely closed to citizen participation, but in nondemocratic systems and developing democracies, such participation may come with risks.
Tsai, Lily L +4 more
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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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Political Uncertainty Cycles and the Impact of Oil Shocks on Supply Chain Pressures
EconomiesThis study explores how energy price inflation affects supply chain pressures under different levels of political uncertainty. Using local projection impulse–response functions, we examine the effects of oil price shocks under two regimes: one with above-
Corey Williams
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 The political divide between liberals and conservatives has become quite large and stable, and there appear to be many reasons for disagreements on a wide range of issues. The current research sought to explain these divides and to extend the Uncertainty-
Brandon D. Stewart +2 more
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Utopian Politics or the Politics of Uncertainty?
lo Squaderno, 2010 The global financial crisis seems to have largely invoked two types of political reaction. These reactions can be understood as mere responses as how to deal most effectively with the crisis’ immediate economic implications, but they can also be seen in a broader sense, as I will do here, as reflecting a kind of political repertoire or cultural image ...
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