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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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Frontiers in Communication, 2019 Quotas are employed or proposed in several European countries as a means to decrease differences in outcomes across groups. Quotas belong to a family of biased selection and treatment measures based on group membership, rather than individual ability ...
Guy Madison
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Quotas: A Pathway of Political Empowerment? [PDF]
IDS Bulletin, 2010 Over the last 20 years, the problem of low levels of representation of women in political office has been mobilising women, and especially feminists, throughout the world. The adoption of quotas has become a much-used tool to address the challenge of increasing women's political representation, and as a route to enhancing women's political empowerment.
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Weighing responsibilities: the allocation of fair refugee quotas
International TheoryHow should the responsibility for refugees be distributed among states? While scholars have proposed various sources of responsibility to make the distribution more equitable, they have not provided guidance on how to weigh each principle within a ...
Liwu Gan
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Import Wheat Tenders and the Effects of the Russian Invasion
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Risk and volatility for many commodities escalated sharply following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, creating numerous uncertainties for trading firms and importers. The purpose of this study is to analyze the bidding behavior in Egyptian wheat import tenders in the pre‐ and post‐invasion periods.
William W. Wilson +2 more
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Consumer Preferences for Craft Beer: The Interplay of Localness and Advertising Language
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores the influence of the language of the label, origin of production, and origin of brewing ingredients on Croatian consumers' preferences and willingness to pay for organic craft beer. Employing an online survey and a choice experiment among 223 Croatian alcohol consumers, we find that while there's a willingness to pay a ...
Marija Cerjak +2 more
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Quotas and ballots: The impact of positive action policies on women's representation in Indonesia
Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, 2020 This article examines the impact of the legal candidate quota for women in Indonesia following the 2019 general elections. It argues that the legal candidate quota is working to increase women's numerical representation, even if progress is gradual and ...
Aditya Perdana, Ben Hillman
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Вестник университета, 2022 The aim of this paper is the study of the impact of state tax regulation on the competitiveness level of the Russian economy taking into account the development of “green” initiatives in the current conditions of sanctions pressure.
E. S. Novikova, E. V. Golubtsova
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Native plants offer a variety of aesthetic (e.g., fall colour, fruit, flowers) and functional benefits (e.g., pollinator friendly, wildlife friendly, water management). How these benefits influence consumer choice and perceived value of native versus introduced plants is not well understood.
Alicia Rihn +3 more
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Socioeconomic Development of Ukraine’s agricultural sector in the context of foreign economic strategic choices [PDF]
International Economic Policy, 2006 This article examines the preconditions and specifics for developing Ukraine’s foreign economic strategy and generalizes the experience of other countries in the impact of their strategies on their integration into the European Union and the development ...
Olena Dyachenko
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