abstract comparative advantage is an economic term which is used to compare potential and actual production capacity of a country in a given commodity with the rest of the world. therefore, researches in this field could have a dual approach. in one hand it could demonstrate country’s production capacity in the production of commodities that are not produced yet and in the other hand it can ill...

In repeated games with di®erential information on one side, the labelling \general case" refers to games in which the action of the informed player is not known to the uninformed, who can only observe a signal which is the random outcome of his and his opponent's action. Here we consider the problem of minimizing regret (in the sense ̄rst formulated by Hannan [8]) when the information available...

The overall goal of this paper is to examine the impacts of trade liberalization on China's agriculture, in general, and poverty, in particular. The impacts on agriculture are analyzed by commodity and by region. Because different farmers (especially those in different income brackets) produce diverse sets of commodities, themain part of our paper analyzes the effects on households and their im...