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Adapting to Changing Rainfall and Developing Off‐Farm Employment: Implications for the Adoption of Direct Seeding in Rice Production

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the world's population and the income from rice is an essential source for livelihoods of millions of households. We examine whether direct seed in rice production is an adaptation of rice farmers to rainfall changes and farm labor scarcity.
Manh Hung Do
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Attualità del pensiero di Napoleoni per l’analisi del capitalismo contemporaneo

Rivista di Storia dell'Università di Torino
Contemporary capitalism has accentuated its contradictory aspects. Drawing inspiration from Napoleoni, this essay aims to analyze the interaction between economic theory and the evolution of capitalism.
Annamaria Simonazzi
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Global crisis and challenges for Russian economic development

Russian Journal of Economics, 2015
Global crisis forms new economic policy agenda which raises new questions for economic theory and economic thinking. This paper deals with these new intellectual challenges.
Vladimir Mau, Alexey Ulyukaev
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Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Index insurance, while heralded as a potential solution to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among agricultural households, has its own set of challenges, notably basis risk. Basis risk is the discrepancy between the insurance payout and losses incurred, posing a significant deterrent to the adoption of index insurance.
S. Lucille Blakeley, Sean Posey, Kathy Baylis, Daniel Osgood, Stuart Sweeney   +4 more
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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
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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
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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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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
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A Unifying Approach to Self‐Organizing Systems Interacting via Conservation Laws

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
The article develops a unified way to model and analyze self‐organizing systems whose interactions are constrained by conservation laws. It represents physical/biological/engineered networks as graphs and builds projection operators (from incidence/cycle structure) that enforce those constraints and decompose network variables into constrained versus ...
F. Barrows, G. Zhang, S. Anand, Z. Chen, J. Lin, A. Desai, S. Martiniani, F. Caravelli   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Oscillatory oblique stagnation-point flow toward a plane wall [PDF]

, 2012
Two-dimensional oscillatory oblique stagnation-point flow toward a plane wall is investigated. The problem is a eneralisation of the steady oblique stagnation-point flow examined by previous workers.
A. Qamar, C.E. Grosch, C.Y. Wang, F. Loth, G. Merchant, J.M. Dorrepaal, J.T. Stuart, J.T. Stuart, K. Batchelor, K. Tamada, M. G. Blyth, M.B. Glauert, M.G. Blyth, N. Riley, N. Riley, N. Riley, N. Riley, P. W. Hammerton, P.D. Weidman, P.D. Weidman, P.D. Weidman, P.G. Drazin, R. M. Tooke, R.M. Tooke   +23 more
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