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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On the predictive content of production surveys : a Pan-European study. [PDF]
For over forty years, Business Tendency Surveys have been collected in multiple member states of the European Union. Previous research has studied the predictive accuracy of the expectation variables included in those surveys through bivariate, within ...
Croux, Christophe +2 more
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Growth and openness: empirical evidence from Bangladesh [PDF]
The study seeks to investigate empirically the direction and shape of causality among trade openness, investment and economic growth using data for Bangladesh during the period 1980-2006.
Haq, Munshi Masudul
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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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Multivariate out-of-sample tests for Granger causality. [PDF]
A time series is said to Granger cause another series if it has incremental predictive power when forecasting it. While Granger causality tests have been studied extensively in the univariate setting, much less is known for the multivariate case. In this
Croux, Christophe, Gelper, Sarah
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An Out of Sample Test for Granger Causality [PDF]
Granger (1980) summarizes his personal viewpoint on testing for causality, and outlines what he considers to be a useful operational version of his original definition of causality (Granger (1969)), which he notes was partially alluded to in Wiener (1958)
Norman R. Swanson
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Topological Properties of International Commodity Market: How Uncertainty Affects the Linkages?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The study aims to explore the network topology of the international commodity market by examining the interconnections among 21 commodity futures across various categories, including energy, precious and industrial metals, and agriculture. We analyze the market structure of these commodity futures under both low and high uncertainty conditions
Ibrahim Yagli, Bayram Deviren
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Causal links between trade, foreign direct investment and economic growth for Bangladesh [PDF]
This study investigates empirically the causal relationship between trade, foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth of Bangladesh for the period of 1973 to 2008.
Syed Imran Ali Meerza
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A Causal Analysis of Life Expectancy at Birth. Evidence from Spain [PDF]
, 2019 Background: From a causal point of view, there exists a set of socioeconomic indicators concerning life expectancy. The objective of this paper is to determine the indicators which exhibit a relation of causality with life expectancy at birth.
Cruz Rambaud, Salvador +2 more
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Risk correlation identification of futures market based on wavelet transform and quantile Granger causality test. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Wu ZQ.
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