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Inefficiencies in the UK milk quota system

Food Policy, 2000
Given that the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union has imposed milk marketing quota on producers, the fact that they are tradeable in the UK increases economic efficiency. Nevertheless, significant inefficiencies remain. Modelling work reported here suggests that significantly more quota needed to be transferred from less to more ...
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Proportional quota weighted voting system hierarchies II

Social Choice and Welfare, 2011
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From the War on Poverty to the Quota System

2016
Part II explores events in the post-movement days, from the end of the 1960s to the turn of the century. This chapter first focuses on the War on Poverty, a comprehensive welfare policy of the Johnson administration targeted at the poor, then President Nixon’s introduction of a quota system for minorities who historically have faced discrimination ...
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The Quota System in Malaysia – Time for Meritocracy?

Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law
Abstract Established under Article 153 of the Federal Constitution, the quota system grants preferential treatment to the Bumiputera. This system, originally implemented under the New Economic Policy to address ethnic inequalities and reduce economic disparities between races, has faced criticism for perpetuating disparities and ...
Avril Clarice Ning Chin, Gary Kit Min Ng
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The Debate about Quota Systems: An Analysis

American Journal of Political Science, 1976
This article examines analytically the relationships among quota systems, egalitarianism, and meritocracy. In the first part it is shown that adoption of a quota system requires trade-offs among social groups which involve considerations that are essentially normative. The attempt to treat egalitarianism as a strictly descriptive concept cannot account
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How Do Electoral Gender Quotas Affect Policy?

Annual Review of Political Science, 2021
Amanda Clayton
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The Fatality Quota System

2022
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Can gender quotas in candidate lists empower women? Evidence from a regression discontinuity design

Journal of Public Economics, 2021
Manuel Bagues
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Employment and Quota Systems

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1984
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Contemporaneous and lasting effects of electoral gender quotas

World Development, 2023
Swapnil Motghare
exaly