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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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Rent seeking and the economics of corruption
, 2016 The paper studies the influence of Tullock (West Econ J 5:224–232, 1967) and the rent-seeking literature more generally on the study of corruption. The theoretical corruption literature with its emphasis on principal-agent relationships within government
Toke S. Aidt
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar +2 more
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Rent Seeking and Democracy in Latin America: What Drives What? [PDF]
Drawing on previously unused objective institutional data, we provide evidence for the causal link between rent-seeking behavior and democracy in Uruguay, a country where both rent-seeking behavior and political shifts have varied widely in the last 80 ...
Alberto Chong, César Calderón
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Agricultural soils offer great potential for carbon sequestration through humus formation. One way to motivate farmers to build up humus is through humus programs. These are still at an early stage of development, poorly explored, and the number of participating farmers is low. Our aim is to explain the heterogeneity of farmers' willingness to
Julia B. Block +2 more
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Education, Rent Seeking and Growth [PDF]
This paper studies the role of education as a way of reducing private rent seeking activities and increasing output. In many underdeveloped economies, for most individuals, there is no private return to education.
Berdugo, Binyamin, Meir, Uri
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The Geography of Success: A Spatial Analysis of Export Intensity in the Italian Wine Industry
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the paradox of how Italy's fragmented, SME‐dominated wine industry achieves global export success. Moving beyond purely firm‐centric explanations, we test whether export intensity is spatially dependent, clustering geographically in regional ecosystems.
Nicolas Depetris Chauvin, Jonas Di Vita
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Regional Policy and rent-seeking [PDF]
The most important policy instrument to promote regional development in the European Union is Strucutral Funds, covering approximately a third of the EU budget.
Kjetil Bjorvatn, Nicola Daniele Coniglio
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Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Purpose To evaluate the efficacy and safety of a novel auxiliary liver suspension device in complex laparoscopic hepatectomy. Methods A total of 253 patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) undergoing complex laparoscopic hepatectomy at the Third Affiliated Hospital of Naval Medical University, Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, and ...
Xiao‐Ying Zhu +9 more
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The price of power: a public choice approach to Hunter Biden’s art sales
Frontiers in Political ScienceThis study examines the market for Hunter Biden’s art, with an eye toward the art’s value as a rent seeking device that benefitted Hunter and the wider Biden family. More specifically, this study asserts that the usefulness of Hunter Biden’s art sales as
Franklin G. Mixon
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