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The Economic and Ecological Impact of Soy in Brazil: A Synthetic Control Method Approach
Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent decades, soy expansion in Brazil has generated significant environmental, social and economic impacts. However, there is no consensus about benefits and drawbacks, calling for a more careful account of the economic and ecological diversity of the territories where this phenomenon has been unfolding.
Stefano Ghinoi +3 more
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Revisiting the Political Economy of Agriculture in 21st Century Food Systems
Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1932, Joseph Duncan argued in the Journal of Agricultural Economics that agricultural economists should engage more explicitly with politics. Nearly a century later, the political economy of food and agriculture has expanded in both scope and complexity.
Danielle Resnick, Johan Swinnen
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L’viv public space in the post-soviet period
, 2016 The article presents an analysis of changes in the public space of Lviv that allows subdividing the city into districts according to the typical authorities and the intensity of changes. Nine types have been singled out; and the space of the historical centre, which underwent the greatest changes, occupies a special place. According to the intensity of
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Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We utilize Chinese provincial data to explore how government policies affected grain production between 1952 and 2008. We adapt the Caselli‐Coleman framework to allow multiple inputs including fertilizer, land and capital as well as skilled and unskilled labour.
Yulong Chen, Peter F. Orazem
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT On‐orbit rendezvous and docking constitute one of the most technically challenging activities in the history of space activities. As space endeavours mature to crewed missions, space rendezous and docking technologies (RDT) emerge as an area of technological innovation critical to advances in future crewed space exploration.
Nikita Chiu, Markus Kornprobst
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Water Alternatives, 2018 This paper examines irrigation in post-communist Southern Ukraine, mapping the continuity of late Soviet investments in centre pivot irrigation technology in the post-Soviet period, but also situating this largescale irrigation in a regional context ...
Brian Kuns
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Evolving Geopolitics and Japan's Economic Security–Trade Nexus: ‘New Capitalism’ as a Balancing Act?
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid intensifying geopolitical tensions, governments increasingly perceive economic interdependence as a strategic vulnerability. Japan, situated geopolitically between two great powers—the United States and China—attempts to navigate geopolitics by prioritising economic security.
Minako Morita‐Jaeger
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As far as international economic law (IEL) is concerned, the ‘Washington Consensus’ generally refers to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s development finance policies and tools. It covers their application to their clients and borrowers with the support of Western governments. This acceptation is of particular interest
Leïla Choukroune
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Modern «samizdat»: the definition
Библиосфера, 2012 The article examines the transformation of self-publishing. A comparative analysis of the key features that characterize samizdat of the Soviet and the post-Soviet period is made. The definition that reflects the essence of the modern concept of samizdat
E. N. Savenko
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Lithuanian composers in the post-Soviet period
[...] The period immediately after 1990 was largely compensatory, trying to make up for all the years of limited access and creative freedom. As a counter to everyday life, where there were many immediate challenges and attempts to master new procedures of day-to-day activity, artists moved more incrementally.
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