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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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European Sugar Market - Impact of Quota System
Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2016 The European agricultural market has been criticized for its heavy regulations and subsidization. The sugar market is one of the most regulated ones; however, this will change radically in 2017 when the current system of production quotas will end. The aim of this paper is to present the basic characteristics of the EU quota sugar market.
Irena Benešová +4 more
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Energy Reports, 2022 Many actions have been carried out to promote the low-carbon society construction in China, emission trading system (ETS) and energy efficiency trading (EET) are two typical instruments during the past five years.
Jia-lin Li +4 more
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Negative Aspects of the Regional Quota System in Japan
JMA Journal, 2019 Chiikiwaku is a measure to improve the maldistribution and shortage of physicians in rural areas in Japan. Although Chiikiwaku quota seats have been on the rise, a considerable number of young physicians and medical students return their loans and do not fulfill their duty periods for several important reasons, including an obligation term lasting for ...
Yamamoto, Kana +7 more
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Universitas Humanística, 2008 This paper discusses statistical data about the implementation of the quota system in the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). In spite of the huge national debate about the legal foundations of quotas, little attention has been paid to the way ...
Giuseppe Andrea Cicalò
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UNDERREPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT AFTER THE INTRODUCTION OF ELECTORAL GENDER QUOTAS
Pravni VjesnikThe article studies the legal issue of women’s political (under)representation in the Croatian Parliament from the independence of the Republic of Croatia to the present day, with a special focus on the ineffectiveness of electoral gender quotas as ...
Mira Lulić, Sanda Pašuld
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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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Why gender quotas don´t work in Brazil? The role of the electoral system and political finance
Colombia Internacional, 2018 This article seeks to explain why Brazil, despite implementing a gender quotas policy for almost 20 years, has the least number of women in national legislatures of all countries in the Americas. It compares key institutional variables, deemed central to
Teresa Sacchet
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores Swedish consumers' protein preferences by estimating the willingness‐to‐pay (WTP) for minced meat and plant‐based proteins in pasta sauce from an in‐store experiment (n = 206) and an online discrete choice experiment (n = 517). On average, the WTP was highest for minced meat.
Emilia Mattsson +3 more
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A quota system for fair share of network resources [PDF]
, 1995 Interconnected networks of today provide a wide variety of services, which consume widely differing amounts of resources. But unlike other computing resources such as disk space and processing power, the network resource is not that much accounted.
C. Çelik, A. Özgit
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