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Арктика и Север, 2020 Since 2016, Russia has been implementing the priority federal program “Formation of a Comfortable Urban Environment”. During this period, significant funds have been spent and hundreds of improvement projects implemented in the urban environment in both ...
Olga N. RUSSOVA +2 more
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Climate change: partisanship, understanding, and public opinion [PDF]
, 2011 In 2010, Carsey Institute researchers began including three new questions about climate change on a series of regional surveys. They asked how much people understand about the issue of global warming or climate change; whether they think that most ...
Hamilton, Lawrence C.
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Internet comments as a barometer of public opinion
, 2015 Social susceptibility is defined and analyzed using data from CNN news website. The current models of opinion dynamics, voting, and herding in closed communities are extended, and the community's response to the injection of a group with predetermined ...
Feigel, Alexander +2 more
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The future of dispute resolution in international trade
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Given ongoing dysfunction of the World Trade Organization's Appellate Body, the focus of this article is on the future of trade dispute resolution, with evaluation of two questions: (i) What is the current status of WTO dispute resolution as compared to that conducted through existing preferential trade agreements (PTAs)? and (ii) What are the
Ian Sheldon, Daniel C. K. Chow
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Exploring the relationship between growth in online shopping and multichannel food consumers
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract During the pandemic, many food retailers began offering online shopping options, primarily in reaction to rising consumer demand for such options, which was a response to supply chain disruptions and fear of contagion and food scarcity.
Mackenzie Gill, Dawn Thilmany
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Public Opinion in Perspective: Wisconsin's Mind on Education [PDF]
, 2010 Outlines survey findings on Wisconsin residents' views on the quality of public schools and reforms including increased spending, accountability, vouchers, charter schools, online education, and merit pay, compared with Milwaukee and national ...
Kenneth M. Goldstein, William G. Howell
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Immigration, public opinion and the recession in Europe
, 2016 It is widely believed that the recent recession has soured public attitudes towards immigration. But most existing studies are cross-sectional and can shed little light on the economy-wide forces that shift public opinion on immigration.
T. Hatton
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King and Cochrane: The technological treadmill and racial inequity in US agriculture
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Between 1920 and 1969, the number of Black farmers in the US decreased from 14% of all operators to 4%. Using Martin Luther King Jr.'s critique of agricultural policy and Willard Cochrane's theory of the technological treadmill, we explore how racial discrimination was linked to policies that led to structural change in US agriculture.
Jared Hutchins, Jacopo De Marinis
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract This paper employs the data envelope analysis (DEA) to assess technological progress and its impact on agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) across 18 the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries from 1973 to 2015.
Yu Sheng
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Exploring barriers to utilizing local agricultural products in the catering industry
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract Both the proportion and expenditure of dining out and takeaway in Taiwan have been increasing year by year. This study investigates the factors influencing the catering service providers (CSPs) procurement of domestically produced or imported food materials.
Wan‐Yu Liu +2 more
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