Ð This paper examines the changes in policy instruments and public institutions under the New Economic Model (NEM) that have a€ected Latin American agriculture, with particular attention to Brazil, Mexico, and Chile. In general, production has increased, while acreage and rural employment have declined in many countries, in the context of a shift from traditional to nontraditional products. The...

Agriculture is one of the major greenhouse gas (GHG) emission sources in China. This paper aims to identify the key factors that have led to rising GHG emissions in China’s agricultural sector in recent decades. This research allows for spatial dependence across provinces, making use of regional data from 31 provinces in mainland China. It investigates the effects of agricultural machinery, dif...

the real business cycle theory was applied to investigate the hypothesis of cyclical agreeable treatment of real wages, for men and women work force, in the iranian agricultural sector for the period of 1971-2006. on the basis of this theory, the impacts of supply side shocks (productivity and oil income shocks), are anticipated on the fluctuations of the real wages. the dominant effect of supp...

background: theoretically, a vital factor in development has been the resilience and strength of socio-economic system to confront instabilities and crises. the precaution, however, is that an error might be committed, where, instead of finding the root causes of diseases we are mobilizing the forces to confront the signs of illness, leaving the diseases to grow and damage the lesser developed ...

THE struggle of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to conclude the Doha round of multilateral trade negotiations brought again to the forefront the important role that agricultural policy continues to play in international trade relations. The sector is subject to heavy-handed governmental interventions throughout the world. Despite decades (even centuries) of economists’ arguments against agri...

Employment of people with disabilities in the agricultural sector has an important role to play solving labor shortages and promoting employment welfare sector. This review summarizes development process overall information on initiatives Japan, examines future possibilities challenges by comparing them social overseas. In United States, support for is provided collaboration state governments u...

This paper compares hiring and separations over the business cycle in formal and informal labor markets in Brazil. Using a simple model with specificity in employment relationships, the paper shows that the consequences of employment protection can be described by an inverse relationship between the incidence and duration of employment. Employment protection moves labor markets along this curve...

BACKGROUND Recruiting and retaining health professions remains a high priority for health system planners. Different employment sectors may vary in their appeal to providers. We used the concepts of inflow and stickiness to assess the relative attractiveness of sectors for physical therapists (PTs) in Ontario, Canada. Inflow was defined as the percentage of PTs working in a sector who were not ...

In ensuring growth and development collaborative State-Business relations (SBRs) matters, and with economic growth comes increasing levels of employment, options for poverty reduction and hence more equitable development. Whereas it is known that SBR matters at a macro-economic level, the concept of SBR has also been employed in a more or less all-encompassing way in the literature. Accordingly...