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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The cocoa‐chocolate value chain faces significant environmental and social challenges, driving firms to adopt sustainability strategies ranging from individual practices to third‐party certifications. This study investigates the factors associated with these strategies by analyzing 304 cocoa‐chocolate companies using firm‐level data from the ...
Stella Marschner +3 more
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A consumer's guide to regional economic multipliers [PDF]
Regional economics ; Multiplier (Economics)
Cletus C. Coughlin, Thomas B. Mandelbaum
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT EU member states have exhibited varying rates of apple production growth. Technical efficiency (TE) estimation is suitable for identifying best‐practice farm performance. This study examined whether the development of the apple sector in Germany, Italy, and Poland was influenced by production efficiency, access to technology, as well as ...
Anika Muder, Jakub Staniszewski
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Diversity, stability and regional growth in the U.S. (1975-2002) [PDF]
This paper summarizes the theoretical arguments from evolutionary theory and ecological economics to put the trade-off between regional economic diversity and regional economic growth on stronger theoretical foundations.
Jürgen Essletzbichler
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
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BJS (British Journal of Surgery), EarlyView., 2020 Clean Cut is a multimodal, adaptive, checklist‐based infection prevention programme designed to improve compliance with six critical perioperative infection prevention practices. After introducing the programme at five hospitals in Ethiopia, compliance with critical infection prevention standards significantly improved and the relative risk of ...
J. A. Forrester +16 more
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Public infrastructure and regional economic development: a simultaneous equations approach [PDF]
A study of how public capital stock impacts regional economic development, which jointly models the effects of local public infrastructure on personal income and the effect of personal income on the allocation of local public outlays.Infrastructure ...
Kevin T. Duffy-Deno, Randall W. Eberts
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REGIONAL ECONOMICS AS A PART OF REGIONAL SCIENCES
, 2021 Regional science is a multidisciplinary field which started to develop significantly in the 1950s. The development of regional sciences relies on the study of theories and tools that explain the mutual interactions of time and space (location) and their impact on society and its activities in a defined space.
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor +3 more
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Misbehavioral urban economics [PDF]
Applications of the framework of behavioral economics to questions arising from urban economics are discussed. Directions for future research are outlined.Behavioral urban economics; ambiguity aversion; loss aversion; regional ...
Berliant, Marcus
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