Hemp Cultivation and Crop Diversification: Implications for Ecosystem Services in Kentucky
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the ecosystem benefits of expanding hemp cultivation by assessing its impact on crop diversity. Using scenario‐based simulations and fixed‐effect panel regressions with county‐level data in Kentucky, we find that increased hemp acreage tends to enhance crop diversity, improving water quality and bird diversity.
Yunsun Park +4 more
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Temporary Programs, Lasting Questions: Ad Hoc Assistance in the U.S. Farm Safety Net
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Large ad hoc assistance programs have returned to U.S. farm policy since 2017, operating alongside a more developed safety net built around federally subsidized crop insurance, Title I commodity programs, and standing disaster assistance. This paper reviews the renewed use of ad hoc assistance, documents its recent scale using USDA data, and ...
Alejandro Plastina +1 more
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Re-appropriating the city of crisis
PlaNext, 2017 Urban societies were greatly affected by the economic crisis in Europe and the politics of austerity that were imposed on them. Urban austerity regimes also turned public space, a common good, into a commodity.
Elina Kränzle
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To Privatise or not to Privatise … [PDF]
The Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling, 1995 openaire +1 more source
Rural Labor Supply and Economic Opportunities: Commuting, Migration, Tariffs, and Immigration
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Some rural counties remain dependent on agricultural or manufacturing jobs, but an increasing proportion have diversified economics. Rural counties also differ in their abilities to commute to an urban market characterized by higher wages and labor productivity.
Peter F. Orazem, Mary C. Ahearn
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Developing management of privatisation: an empirical study on the barriers hindering implementation of the programme in Saudi Arabia and a proposed efficient model [PDF]
In 1997 the Saudi Government took a forward step to implement privatisation and to promote the process and its implementation in different public enterprises.
Al-Buridi, Abdulrahman Mohammed
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Power relations, ethnicity and privatisation: A tale of a telecommunications company [PDF]
, 2014 The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the confluence of political and economic interests of the Fijian elite in transforming state assets into private property and financial gain.
Lawrence, Stewart R. +1 more
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The Italian water movement and the politics of the commons
Water Alternatives, 2016 The article contributes to the debate on the commons as a political strategy to counter the privatisation of water services by focusing on the experience of the Italian water movement.
Chiara Carrozza , Emanuele Fantini
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We conducted two framed field economic experiments with citrus farmers in Florida, United States and soybean farmers in Argentina to investigate their willingness to coordinate pest and weed management efforts. Despite the contrast between these two agricultural contexts, we find striking behavioral commonalities.
Ariel Singerman, Sergio H. Lence
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From a Centrally Planned Economy to…? The Early Years of Poland’s Economic Transformation
Review (Institute of National Remembrance)This article is devoted to the initial period of Poland’s economic transformation from a administrative-command system to a market economy. It covers the years 1988–1991, that is, three successive government cabinets.
Andrzej Zawistowski
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