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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology

open access: yesApplied 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
wiley   +1 more source

Remittance Senders and Receivers: Tracking the Transnational Channels [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Presents findings from a series of surveys and focus groups conducted in 2003, on remittance sending and receiving from 11,000 individuals in the U.S., Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and ...
Roberto Suro
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The role of Central American Trade in developing El Salvador’s high-value exports [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This paper describes the development and evolution of El Salvador’s industrial exports. This paper found that El Salvador’s exports to other Central American countries enhance business opportunities observed in an increase in the number of new products ...
Castro, Eleno
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[Tuberculosis in Salvador, Brazil: costs to health system and families]. [PDF]

open access: yesRevista de saude publica, 2005
OBJETIVO: A tuberculose é uma das maiores causas de mortalidade no mundo, porém seus efeitos econômicos são pouco conhecidos. O objetivo do estudo foi o de estimar os custos do tratamento e prevenção da tuberculose para o sistema de saúde (público e privado) e para as famílias. MÉTODOS: O estudo foi realizado no município de Salvador, BA, em 1999.
Costa, João G   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Price Transmission and Leadership in the Global Poultry Market: Results From Parametric and Nonparametric Approaches

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Brazil and the United States account for more than 40% of global poultry exports, with China and South Korea among their major destination markets. This study examines price transmission and market linkages between Brazil and the United States using monthly poultry export price data from January 1990 to December 2024. It also assesses which of
Khondoker Abdul Mottaleb   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Redistributive land reforms, agricultural productivity, and structural change: New cross‐national evidence

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Political and intelectual experiences of formation of a communist: family, ethnicity, readings and student militancy of Jacob Gorender, an young member of the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) in Salvador (1923-1943)

open access: yesRevista Mundos do Trabalho, 2017
Jacob Gorender, communist militant and Marxist theorist, is known specially by his historiographical production starting from the 1970’s, as well as his role in the PCB and PCBR’s ruling circles between the last 1950’s and the 1960’s.
Carlos Fernando Quadros
doaj   +1 more source

COVID-19 monetary transfer in El Salvador: determining factors

open access: yesRevista de Administração Pública, 2021
Given the lack of governmental guidelines, this paper identifies and analyzes the statistical determinants associated with receiving the onetime monetary transfer in El Salvador ($300 dollars) as an economic measure to face the COVID-19 pandemic.
Carlos Ayala Durán
doaj   +1 more source

Nineteenth-Century Bahia\u27s Passion for British Salted Cod: From the Seas of Newfoundland to the Portuguese Shops of Salvador\u27s Cidade Baixa, 1822-1914 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Dried cod has played a similar role to sugar in the international chain of commerce. It became a major traded commodity between British North America (Newfoundland, Nova Scotia Gaspe) in the nineteenth century.
Herold, Marc W.
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