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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes, Amanda M. Countryman, Dustin L. Pendell   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Athlete atypicity on the edge of human achievement: performances stagnate after the last peak, in 1988.

PLoS ONE, 2010
The growth law for the development of top athletes performances remains unknown in quantifiable sport events. Here we present a growth model for 41351 best performers from 70 track and field (T&F) and swimming events and detail their characteristics over
Geoffroy Berthelot, Muriel Tafflet, Nour El Helou, Stéphane Len, Sylvie Escolano, Marion Guillaume, Hala Nassif, Julien Tolaïni, Valérie Thibault, François Denis Desgorces, Olivier Hermine, Jean-François Toussaint   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Macroeconomics in the Age of Secular Stagnation

Revue de l'OFCE, 2019
The “Great Recession” that began in 2008 plunged the economy into long-lasting stagnation with high unemployment, depressed output and very low inflation. This crisis, whose exceptional duration is difficult to explain using the theoretical tools of contemporary macroeconomics, invites us to enrich fundamental analysis.
Le Garrec, Gilles, Touzé, Vincent
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Does Contract Farming Improve Diet Quality? The Case of Senegalese Smallholders

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The institution of contract farming has gained prominence in most developing countries owing to its numerous benefits. While several studies have already highlighted the welfare benefits of contract farming, very few have investigated the effects on diet quality, despite poor quality diets being a serious challenge in most parts of the ...
Francis E. Ndip, Takeshi Sakurai
wiley   +1 more source

Meta Analyses and Controversy About Financialization, Growth and Stability: A look from post-transition countries of last decade

ECONOMICS, 2020
In the recent theory of economic growth, there are multiple explanations for the “downward trend of economic growth”, which is already happening during the past decade in developed and emerging markets. Almost all economists have avoided researching the “
Ristic Kristijan
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Representative Percentile Curves of Physical Fitness From Early Childhood to Early Adulthood: The MoMo Study

Frontiers in Public Health, 2020
Introduction: Monitoring of physical fitness in youth is important because physical fitness is a summative indicator of health. From a developmental and preventive perspective, physical fitness levels are relatively stable from childhood to early ...
Claudia Niessner, Till Utesch, Doris Oriwol, Doris Oriwol, Anke Hanssen-Doose, Steffen C. E. Schmidt, Alexander Woll, Klaus Bös, Annette Worth   +8 more
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The Bitter Taste of Brazil's Temporary Import Ban on Robusta Coffee

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Brazil, a leading Robusta coffee producer and exporter, faced a significant drought in 2016–2017, which drastically reduced production and depleted stocks. Consequently, Brazil temporarily permitted the import of one million 60‐kg bags of Robusta coffee in the spring 2017. An import ban was imposed shortly afterward due to lobbying by domestic
Hanifi Otgun, John Beghin, Fernando Maximiliano   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Post-growth perspectives: Sustainable development based on efficiency and on sufficiency

Public Sector Economics, 2019
With the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement the general idea of sustainable development has been transformed into a policy concept with well-defined goals, indicators for measurement and an implementation process.
Rudi Kurz
doaj   +1 more source

Interdependence between Core and Peripheries of the European Economy: Secular Stagnation and Growth in the Western Balkans. LEQS Discussion Paper No. 104/2016 February 2016 [PDF]

, 2016
European countries are economically dependent upon each other. This paper therefore embeds the analysis of the Western Balkan countries within a wider perspective of the European economy as a whole.
Bartlett, Will, Prica, Ivana
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Accretion onto the Companion of Eta Carinae During the Spectroscopic Event. V. the Infrared Decline

, 2008
We propose that the decline in the near-IR flux from the massive binary system Eta Carinae during the spectroscopic event might be explained by accreted mass that absorbs the radiation from the secondary star, and by that reduces the heating of the dust ...
Abraham, Akashi, Amit Kashi, Behar, Corcoran, Corcoran, Cox, Damineli, Damineli, Davidson, Duncan, Falceta-Goncalves, Frank, Gomez, Hamaguchi, Hildenbrand, Hillier, Humphreys, Ishibashi, Kashi, Krugel, Lamers, Mitchell, Noam Soker, Pittard, Rybicki, Schaerer, Smith, Smith, Smith, Smith, Smith, Smith, Smith, Smith, Smith, Soker, Soker, Soker, Soker, Steiner, Van Genderen, van Genderen, van Genderen, Verner, Walsh, Whitelock, Whittet, Woitke, Zanella   +49 more
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