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Indonesia and Vietnam in Global Supply Chains and the Age of COVID: A Tale of Two Countries
Indonesia’s economic performance since 2000 has been respectable. It has not succeeded, however, at joining global value chainsValue chain (GVC)....
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Asian Palm Oil Production and European Vegetable Oil Market: What Can We Learn in Terms of Sustainability?
Palm oil production has had an extraordinary evolution since 2000, especially in Southeast Asian countries. Its profitability is related to lower...
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Price bubbles of agricultural commodities: evidence from China’s futures market
The frequent price volatility in China’s agricultural futures market has aroused concern about price bubbles in the agricultural futures market. This...
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Economic Growth and Inclusive Development: Some Observations from Indian Farmers’ Perspective
India is considered to be one of the fastest growing economies, but economic distribution is uneven. India has also made significant impact in...
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Forest Fires, Smoky Kitchens, and Human Health in Indonesia
Burning tropical forests to establish lucrative agricultural crops ignores potentially important health externalities of the resulting air pollution....
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Price Volatility, the Maturity Effect, and Global Oil Prices: Evidence from Chinese Commodity Futures Markets
We study the maturity effect using 41 major agricultural, industrial, and metal commodities traded in three Chinese futures exchanges between 2006...
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Geopolitics, Geoeconomics and the EU Trade Policy: The Relationship with ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) as a Test Case
Tracing the shift in the EU’s international trade strategy through the lens of its negotiations with ASEAN and its member countries discloses...
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Cash Waqf for Humanitarian Aid: The Case of Transboundary Haze
The occurrence of transboundary haze across several ASEAN countries is considered to be humanitarian crisis, and Malaysia is among the worst affected...
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Globalization and Sustainability: De Jure and De Facto Approach
This chapter covers sustainability issues from the industrial development and international trade perspectives. Issues covered can be broadly...
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Agricultural Innovation and Its Impacts on Farming and Rural Welfare
This chapter reviews the background of innovation and its types, as well as its implementation in agriculture. The content covers the measurement of...
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Agriculture and Rural Villages in the National Economy
This chapter explores how agriculture and rural villagesRural village are positioned in the Myanmar national economy. Using macroeconomic...
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The Policy Implications of the Dasgupta Review: Land Use Change and Biodiversity
The “Dasgupta Review” of the economics of biodiversity (Dasgupta
2021 ) identifies many factors that threaten the ecological sustainability of our...
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Biofuel Projects and Current Environmental Policies: Vietnam’s Case and Neighboring Asian Countries
In the mid-1970s, there was an increasing interest in biofuels when Brazil and USA started producing ethanol from sugarcane, though the consumption...
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The Biofuel Industry and Global Trade Nexus
Over the last two decades, global biofuels production has grown significantly. While several types of renewable biofuels exist, the significant share...
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Family farms and plantations in tropical development
Small family farms and plantations are the two contrasting systems of agricultural production in the tropics. While the family farm is an old...
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Multiscale Agricultural Commodities Forecasting Using Wavelet-SARIMA Process
Forecasts of spot or future prices for agricultural commodities make it possible to anticipate the favorable or above all unfavorable development of...
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Economy and Agriculture
The chapter examines the natural resources in Africa and possible benefits to African development. However, these natural resource potentials need to...
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The Present and Future of Sustainable Aviation Fuels in China
The aviation industry is one of the industries “hard to reduce emission” and a potentially important carbon emitter. Unless additional emissions...
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Bunkering in West Africa: The Case of Dakar
The academic literature has analysed the expansion of steamship navigation services in West Africa in depth (Davies, 2000; Leubuscher, 1963; Lynn,...
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Deforestation and Development: How Do Forests and Population Living Standards Coevolve
Forests provide many benefits to the planet. However, the conversion of forested land for economic activities is a growing concern worldwide,...