The negative impact of the outbreak of bird flu on economic sectors in the partial and macro research will be analyzed using CGE models (Computable General Equilibrium). The result of the simulation studies indicate that the sector directly affected by the outbreak of bird flu poultry sectors are a traditional, medium large poultry meat and eggs. While the sectors that are indirectly affected s...

This paper examines the role of remittances, provided by a large global diaspora of migrant workers and refugees, in post-war Somaliland. Based on field-work conducted in Somaliland under the COPE project in 1998/9, the paper discusses trends in the size, source, means of transfer, distribution and use of remittances, their role in livelihoods and in the country's economic recovery and future p...

This paper addresses how financial development affects product quality and firmlevel exports depending on the firm’s productivity. To this goal, I propose a heterogeneous firms model with endogenous quality, credit constraints and heterogeneous productivity of a firm. I show theoretically and confirm empirically that lower financial constraints result in higher-quality output and higher exports...

Nonlinear Effects of Exchange Rate Volatility on the Volume of Bilateral Exports Christopher F. Baum Department of Economics Boston College Mustafa Caglayan Department of Economics and Accounting University of Liverpool, UK Neslihan Ozkan Department of Economics and Accounting University of Liverpool, UK In this paper, we empirically investigate the impact of exchange rate volatility on real in...

The Brazilian state of Mato Grosso was a global deforestation hotspot in the early 2000s. Deforested land is used predominantly to produce meat for distal consumption either through cattle ranching or soya bean for livestock feed. Deforestation declined dramatically in the latter part of the decade through a combination of market forces, policies, enforcement and improved monitoring. This study...

Foot and mouth disease is one of the world's most important livestock diseases for trade. FMD infections are complex in nature and there are many epidemiological factors needing clarification. Key questions relate to the control challenges and economic impact of the disease for resource-poor FMD endemic countries like Zambia. A review of the control challenges and economic impact of FMD outbrea...

The world is moving toward efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Net emission reduction efforts may involve the agricultural sector through options such as planting of trees, crop and livestock management changes, and production of biofuels. However, such options can be competitive with domestic food production. In a free trade arena, reduced domestic food production could stimulate incre...

This paper analyzes the end uses—food, feed, fiber, fuel, and exports—of biomass production in U.S. 1997, 2002, 2007, 2012. They are also analyzed at state level Biomass is measured as human appropriation of net primary (HANPP), an ecological footprint carbon fixed through photosynthesis, derived from data on crop, timber grazing yields. HANPP was allocated to uses using publicly available sour...

Poultry products are popular on all continents. In addition to economic factors (the cheapest), poultry meat is healthy, nutritious, safe and the most affordable among other products. The goal develop priority areas for market in context of ensuring country's food security based an analysis main trends its development. objects research processes world production following methods were used – ab...