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Beyond the Ban—Shedding Light on Smallholders' Price Vulnerability in Indonesia's Palm Oil Industry
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Indonesian government imposed a palm oil export ban in April 2022 to address rising cooking oil prices. This study explores oil palm smallholders' vulnerability to the policy using descriptive statistics, Lasso, and post‐Lasso OLS regressions.
Charlotte‐Elena Reich +3 more
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An examination of wage determination in China’s rural industrial sector [PDF]
Under traditional Chinese socialist ideology, labour is not considered as a commodity, and wages are not viewed as the price of labour. Market oriented economic reform initiated in the late 1970s, however, has brought some changes to this politically ...
meng, xin
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia +4 more
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Study on the Development of Distributed Energy in Northern China of Rural Energy Transformation [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesDistributed energy is a crucial breakthrough and focus for the green and low-carbon transformation of rural energy in China. It has experienced rapid development in recent years.
Liu Shaohua, Zhang Yingyuan, Zheng Shu
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PARENTS AS PUBLIC GOODS: THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM RURAL CHINA [PDF]
This paper attempts to explain why some elderly in rural China live alone in relative poverty while others live with their children and are relatively well-off.
de Brauw, Alan
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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková +4 more
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Risk Management and Healthcare PolicyZhaofeng Pang,1 Xiyuan Jia,2 Ming Zhou,2 Xinwu Zhang,3 Cindy Feng,3 Yue Ma3 1School of Politics and Public Administration, Northwest University of Political Science and Law, Xi’an, People’s Republic of China; 2School of Public Administration, Northwest ...
Pang Z +5 more
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Transition of farmland use system towards urban-rural integration: From localization to de-localization [PDF]
Ziyuan Kexue[Objective] Farmland use transition runs through the entire process of the evolution of urban-rural relations in China, and is mutually reinforcing and complementary with the integrated development of urban and rural areas.
FENG Dedong, LONG Hualou
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Regional Income Inequality in Rural China, 1985-2002: Trends, Causes and Policy Implications [PDF]
This paper depicts the trend of regional inequality in rural China for the period 1985-2002. The total inequality is decomposed into the so-called within- and between-components when China is divided into three regional belts (east, central and west).
Wan, Guanghua
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Assessing Photovoltaic Recycling Capacities and Policy Gaps in the European Union
Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.This study maps photovoltaic recycling capacity in the EU and key global regions, highlighting gaps between growing waste volumes and available infrastructure. It combines survey insights and policy analysis to identify recycling bottlenecks and offers recommendations to boost circularity in the solar sector.
Nieves Espinosa +3 more
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