Search Results - "Libération"

The impact of the Central America Free Trade Agreement on the Central American textile maquila industry by Jansen, Hans G. P., Morley, Samuel, Kessler, Gloria, Piñeiro, Valeria, Sánchez, Marco, Torero, Máximo

“…First, and in order to make maximum use of the liberalized rules of origin under CAFTA, countries should increasingly move toward full-package production instead of pure assembly. …”
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Institutions matter: let knowledge make the difference (Road Map 2002 - 2006) by International Service for National Agricultural Research

“…Globalization, trade liberalization, the changing role of government in society, the growing concerns for environmental protection, climate change, and biotechnology all present important challenges for the agricultural sector. …”
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Rural economy and farm income diversification in developing countries by Delgado, Christopher L., Siamwalla, Ammar

“…Where agricultural transformation has occurred, markets function well and agriculture is a waning portion of overall national product, such as the rice growing regions of Southeast Asia, farm diversification might be a desirable outcome of pursuing a market liberalization objective, but is probably not an end in itself. …”
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Indigenous Peoples, Representation and Citizenship in Guatemalan Forestry by Larson, A.M.

“…The article finds that both authorities have some strengths as well as important weaknesses, thus supporting arguments for the reinvention of both liberal democracy and tradition in the interest of inclusive citizenship…”
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Food trade openness and enhancement of food security: Partial equilibrium model simulations for selected countries by Fathelrahman, Eihab, Davies, Stephen, Muhammad, Safdar

“…This research measured the welfare impacts of food trade liberalization in India, Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) using the partial equilibrium model—World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS). …”
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Can modern input use be promoted without subsidies?: An analysis of fertilizer in Ethiopia by Rashid, Shahidur, Tefera, Nigussie, Minot, Nicholas, Ayele, Gezahegn

“…During this time, policies changed from liberalization, with both private and public sector participation, to a government monopoly over imports along with exclusive marketing through farmers’ cooperatives. …”
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Measuring the impacts of global trade reform with optimal aggregators of distortions by Laborde Debucquet, David, Martin, Will, van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique

“…The measured income gains increase along the entire path of liberalization, with slightly larger increases in the earlier stages, where the gaps between the responses of the expenditure and tariff revenue aggregators are largest. …”
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Why is the Doha development agenda failing? And what can be done?: A computable general equilibrium-game theoretical approach by Bouët, Antoine, Laborde Debucquet, David

“…When real income is the objective and services are excluded, or when optimizing terms of trade is the objective, the Nash solution is the status quo. Trade liberalization is feasible only when the negotiators focus on national exports or Gross Domestic Product (GDP). …”
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Synthesis report: Agricultural transformation and market integration in the ASEAN region: Responding to food security and inclusiveness concerns by Roy, Devesh, Kamar, Abul, Pradhan, Mamata, Saroj, Sunil

“…The implementation of the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) in 2003 helped liberalize the intra-ASEAN agricultural trade, which grew steadily during the period under review. …”
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The challenge of effective model scoping: a FLORES case study from the Mafungausti forest margins, Zimbabwe by Haggith, M., Prabhu, Ravi, Mudavanhu, H., Matose, F., Mutimukuru, T., Nyirenda, R., Standa-Gunda, W.

“…Scoping decisions that were made in building the Mafungautsi model were deliberately liberal, to encompass the inerests of all participants in the modelling process. …”
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The changing structure of the maize seed industry in Zambia: prospects for orange maize by Smale, Melinda, Simpungwe, Eliab, Birol, Ekin, Kassie, Girma T., Groot, Hugo de, Mutale, Raphael

“…We discuss the merits of two strategies: (1) liberalizing the provision of original orange maize planting material to all seed companies with the aim of maximizing the impact of this public health intervention, and (2) exclusive rights granted to companies with the goals of preserving differentiated products and ensuring standard seed quality to protect the brand. …”
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Should vaccination be considered as a conservation measure for backyard chicken threatened with highly pathogenic avian influenza? by Ayalew, W., Jobre, Y.

“…From the out put side, water loss was highest throughevaporation (55%; 330 ml in T1 vs 767 ml in T4) followed by urine (27%; 166 ml inT1 vs 389 ml in T4) and faecal (18%; 137 ml in T1 vs 218 in T4) water.Supplementation was accompanied by liberal water use and resulted in low watereconomy; the control sheep (T1), drunk 46% of the water intake of sheep in T4 andthereby saved 54% more water or 60 liters of water/100 sheep which could serve119 additional sheep. …”
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The Use of Proprietary Biotechnology Research Inputs at Selected Latin American NAROs by Salazar, Silvia, Falconi, César A., Komen, John, Cohen, Joel I.

“…During the past decade, the gradual globalization of the world’s economy—through the liberalization of markets and the institution of free trade agreements—has brought to the fore the topic of intellectual property rights (IPR). …”
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Sanitary and phytosanitary standards as bridge to cross by Munasib, Abdul, Roy, Devesh

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Supply response of West African agricultural households: implications of intrahousehold preference heterogeneity by Smith, Lisa C., Chavas, Jean-Paul

“…It is then employed to simulate the supply response to cotton price increases accompanying agricultural sector liberalization in Burkina Faso in the early 1980s. The simulated semi-cooperative model predicts the cotton supply response of (monogamous) Burkinabé households to be 25 percent below that which would ensue in households facing the same production constraints yet whose members have identical preferences. …”
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Strategic policies and growth: an applied model of R&D-driven endogenous growth by Diao, Xinshen, Roe, Terry L., Yeldan, A. Erinc

“…We find that trade liberalization may cause the growth rate to fall and lead to a loss of social welfare in the long-run, although it improves welfare in the short-run. …”
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Sources of innovation in dairy production in Kenya by Schreiber, C.

“…In times of market liberalization and structural adjustment, the agricultural sectors of developing countries face profound changes. …”
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Food-borne hazards in a transforming pork value chain in Hanoi: Basis for future risk assessments by Fahrion, Anna S., Lapar, Ma. Lucila, Nguyen Ngoc Toan, Do Ngoc Thuy, Grace, Delia

“…Driven by market liberalization and economic growth, food chains especially in urban areas adapt to convenience lifestyles (e.g., the promotion of refrigeration systems) and move away from the traditional methods of food retail and preparation. …”
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The malleability of participation: the politics of agricultural research under neoliberalism in Bolivia by Córdoba, Diana M., Jansen, Kees, González, Carolina

“…Drawing on a distinction between a liberal and a neoliberal moment in the restructuring of agricultural research, we study the case of PROINPA (Foundation for the Promotion and Research of Andean Products), a national NGO that was once part of the state system for agricultural research but was then privatized. …”
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Motor pump revolution in Ethiopia: promises at a crossroads by Dessalegn, Mengistu, Merrey, Douglas J.

“…They perceive pumps as liberating them from the 'social' limitations of traditional communal irrigation. …”
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