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History of American Agriculture
This is a very interesting website which provides information on the history of American agriculture. The paradigm shifts in agricultural practices and institutions in the US could be assessed by a careful reading of the content provided here.
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09 May 2008 |
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Shambhu Ghatak
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Evolution of Competition Policy & Law by Pradeep S Mehta & Simon J Evenett (CUTS C-CIER)
Nearly all the major countries have constitutional provisions to promote and preserve competition in the market place and have also adopted laws. Countries, which did not have a competition law, are today in the process of adopting one. Laws are being increasingly amended or scrapped and new ones adopted to bring them in line with current needs and. . .
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08 May 2008 |
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Shambhu Ghatak
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Knowledge for Africa's Development: Ten Priorities
The World Bank and the Governments of South Africa and Finland hosted the Knowledge for Africa's Development Conference in May 2006 in South Africa. The objective of the conference was to enhance understanding and awareness about the issues that all African countries need to address relevant to access to, and use of, knowledge to strengthen their c. . .
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07 May 2008 |
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John Daly
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"Innovation in Global Industries: U.S. Firms Competing in a New World (Collected Studies)"
"The debate over offshoring of production, transfer of technological capabilities, and potential loss of U.S. competitiveness is a long-running one. Prevailing thinking is that the world is flat that is, innovative capacity is spreading uniformly; as new centers of manufacturing emerge, research and development and new product development follow.
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03 May 2008 |
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John Daly
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We are not all in the same boat
This is a view of the impact of the US slowdown on countries economically intertwined in a globalized world. It reviews the common concept of globalization and argues that globalization and decouplings are not mutually opposed processes but an intrinsic part of each other. The world is far more economically balanced today offering far greater oppor. . .
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02 May 2008 |
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Amitava Chaudhuri
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The World Economy at the Start of the 21st Century
A brief overview of the state of the global economy by a Deputy Director of the International Monetary Fund. Anne O. Krueger, the Annual Gilbert Lecture, Rochester University, April 6, 2006.
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02 May 2008 |
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John Daly
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Sustainable Procurement of Wood and Paper-based Products Guide and Resource Kit
The Sustainable Procurement of Wood and Paper-based Products Guide and Resource Kit ( 1.8 MB) is a toolbox designed to help corporate managers understand and find the best advice on how to purchase products originating from the world's forests.
Countless resources have been developed to help businesses sustainably procure forest-based products . . .
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02 May 2008 |
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Immaculate Bugingo
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"Foreign High-Tech R&D in China"
Subtitle: 'RISKS, REWARDS, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS"
From the Forward: "This study explores the confluence
of two key aspects of the architecture of international relations in the 21st
century—globalization and an increasingly trade-oriented conception of
national security—within the specific context of foreign high-tech
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01 May 2008 |
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John Daly
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The Food Crisis
After more than three decades of relatively stable nominal food prices on the world markets during the years 1974-2005 and a gradual decline in their real price by an astounding 75%, largely as an effect of the decline in the world price of grains, a combination of several factors since 2005 brought a sharp increase in food and feed prices at accel. . .
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30 Apr 2008 |
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Emmanuel Habumuremyi
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Business Forum of Uzbekistan
Business Forum of Uzbekistan is a national platform for public-private dialogue.
The Uzbekistan Business Forum Project seeks to provide and maintain mechanisms for the private sector to actively participate in elaboration, implementation and monitoring of the national, regional, sector-specific development strategies and policies that should furt. . .
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30 Apr 2008 |
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Nazar Talibdjanov
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Agricultural production capacity and food security built into a Model for ecological, sustainable, local integrated development projects.
This article shows how projects under the Model for self-financing, ecological, sustainable, local development projects promoted by the Dutch NGO Stichting Bakens Verzet ("Another Way") support agricultural production and increase food security in project areas. The Model is in the public domain and available for use free of charge. It can be downl. . .
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30 Apr 2008 |
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Terrence Manning
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Respect for ecology built into a Model for self-financing, ecological, sustainable, local integrated development projects
The article shows how ecology is built into the Model for self-financing, ecological, sustainable, local integrated development projects for the world’s poor promoted by the Dutch NGO Stichting Bakens Verzet ("Another Way"). The Model is in the public domain and available for use free of charge. It can be downloaded from website www.flowman.nl.
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30 Apr 2008 |
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Terrence Manning
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The Indian Shrimp Industry Organizes to Fight the Threat of Anti-Dumping Action by B. Bhattarcharyya
On 31 December 2003, the Ad Hoc Shrimp Trade Action Committee (ASTAC), an association of shrimp farmers in eight southern states of the United States, filed an anti-dumping petition against six countries — Brazil, China, Ecuador, India, Thailand and Vietnam. The petition alleged that these countries had dumped their shrimps in the US market. This c. . .
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29 Apr 2008 |
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Shambhu Ghatak
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WTO Negotiations on Agriculture and Developing Countries
The World Trade Organization's Doha Round of trade talks has been plagued by a lack of concrete progress toward establishing a fair and harmonious agricultural trading system. Because the results of the Doha Round could have far-reaching implications for the trade and economic prospects of developing countries in the twenty-first century, it is cri. . .
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29 Apr 2008 |
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Emmanuel Habumuremyi
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Developing Countries Shaping Future of World Agriculture Trade
Production and consumption of farm products are expanding faster in developing countries than in developed economies. But a new joint report by the OECD and FAO says productivity growth in the world's poorest nations is not keeping pace with the food needs of their rising populations.
Because of this, the poorest developing countries will be inc. . .
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29 Apr 2008 |
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Emmanuel Habumuremyi
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