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Quality Standards, Value Chains, and International Development

Economic and Political Theory

By: Johan Swinnen

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Quality Standards, Value Chains, and International Development

Economic and Political Theory

By: Johan Swinnen

This book offers the first theoretical analysis of the determination of quality standards and their effects along the value chain.

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1107025915

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Beeronomics

How Beer Explains the World

By: Johan Swinnen,Devin Briski

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Beeronomics

How Beer Explains the World

By: Johan Swinnen,Devin Briski

From prompting a transition from hunter-gatherer to an agrarian lifestyle in ancient Mesopotamia to bankrolling Britain's imperialist conquests, strategic taxation and the regulation of beer has played a pivotal role throughout history. Beeronomics: How Beer Explains the World tells these stories, and many others, whilst also exploring the key innovations that propelled the industrialization and consolidation of the beer market. At the same time when mega-mergers in the brewing industry are creating huge transnationals selling their beer across the globe, the craft beer movement in America and Europe has brought the rich history of ancient brewing techniques to the forefront in recent years. But less talked about is the economic influence of this beverage on the world and the myriad ways it has shaped the course of history. Beeronomics covers world history through the lens of beer, exploring the common role that beer taxation has played throughout and providing context for recognizable brands and consumer trends and tastes. Beeronomics examines key developments that have moved the brewing industry forward. Its most ubiquitous ingredient, hops, was used by the Hanseatic League to establish the export dominance of Hamburg and Bremen in the sixteenth century. During the late nineteenth century, bottom-fermentation led to the spread of industrial lager beer. Industrial innovations in bottling, refrigeration, and TV advertising paved the way for the consolidation and market dominance of major macrobreweries like Anheuser Busch in America and Artois Brewery in Belgium during the twentieth century. We're now in the era of global integration-- one multinational AB InBev, claims 46% of all beer profits-- but there's a counterrevolution afoot of small, independent craft breweries in both America, Belgium and around the world. Beeronomics surveys these trends, giving context to why you see which brands and styles on shelves at your local supermarket or on tap at the nearby pub.

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Quality Standards, Value Chains, and International Development

Economic and Political Theory

By: Johan Swinnen

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Political Power and Economic Policy

Theory, Analysis, and Empirical Applications

By: Gordon C. Rausser,Johan Swinnen,Pinhas Zusman

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Political Power and Economic Policy

Theory, Analysis, and Empirical Applications

By: Gordon C. Rausser,Johan Swinnen,Pinhas Zusman

This book analyzes the links between political economics, governance structures and the distribution of political power in economic policy making. The book theoretically explains and empirically quantifies these interactions. The analysis includes both public good policies and redistributive policies. Part I of the book presents the conceptual foundations of political-economic bargaining and interest group analysis. After presenting the underlying theory, Part II of the book examines ideology, prescription and political power coefficients; Part III analyzes a number of specific structures; and Part IV presents a framework for political econometrics with a number of empirical applications and testable hypotheses. In all four parts of the book, four analytical dimensions of public policy are distinguished: governance structures, political economy, mechanism design and incidence.

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113949984X

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From Marx and Mao to the Market

The Economics and Politics of Agricultural Transition

By: Johan F.M. Swinnen,Scott Rozelle

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From Marx and Mao to the Market

The Economics and Politics of Agricultural Transition

By: Johan F.M. Swinnen,Scott Rozelle

This book is the first effort to analyze the economics and politics of agricultural reforms by comparing the reform processes, their causes and their effects across this vast region. The authors draw on a vast set of studies and new data, which compare reforms and economic impacts in more than 25 countries. A series of conclusions and implications on the role of economic reforms in growth, and the importance of initial conditions and political constraints in explaining the choices that were made and their effects are discussed throughout the book."--BOOK JACKET.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199288917

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Aging and Dementia

Neuropsychology, Motor Skills, and Pain

By: Erik Johan Anton Scherder,Erik Scherder

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Aging and Dementia

Neuropsychology, Motor Skills, and Pain

By: Erik Johan Anton Scherder,Erik Scherder

Drawing on the most current research, this study is the perfect companion for those who work alongside elderly people with and without dementia. The book explains why changes in cognition, motor skills, and pain are typical for the elderly while describing the most prevalent subtypes of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, and frontotemporal dementia. Focusing on the motor skills of hand motor activity and gait, the study also illustrates changes in the various aspects of pain experience, explaining them clearly through the use of neuropathology of the medial and lateral pain systems. Updates concerning compensation and rehabilitation are also included.

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VU Uitgeverij

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9086595618

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Quantitative Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Integrating Models with Data

By: Otso Ovaskainen,Henrik Johan de Knegt,Maria del Mar Delgado

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Quantitative Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Integrating Models with Data

By: Otso Ovaskainen,Henrik Johan de Knegt,Maria del Mar Delgado

This is an integration of empirical data and theory in quantitative ecology and evolution through the use of mathematical models and statistical methods.

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Oxford University Press

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0198714866

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The Political Economy of Agricultural and Food Policies

By: Johan Swinnen

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The Political Economy of Agricultural and Food Policies

By: Johan Swinnen

Winner of the European Association of Agricultural Economists Book Award Food and agriculture have been subject to heavy-handed government interventions throughout much of history and across the globe, both in developing and in developed countries. Today, more than half a trillion US dollars are spent by some governments to support farmers, while other governments impose regulations and taxes that hurt farmers. Some policies, such as price regulations and tariffs, distribute income but reduce total welfare by introducing economic distortions. Other policies, such as public investments in research, food standards, or land reforms, may increase total welfare, but these policies come also with distributional effects. These distributional effects influence the preferences of interest groups and in turn influence policy decisions. Political considerations are therefore crucial to understand how agricultural and food policies are determined, to identify the constraints within which welfare-enhancing reforms are possible (or not), and finally to understand how coalitions can be created to stimulate growth and reduce poverty.

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1137501022

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Political Power and Economic Policy

Theory, Analysis, and Empirical Applications

By: Gordon C. Rausser,Johan Swinnen,Pinhas Zusman

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Theory, Analysis, and Empirical Applications

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Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Europe's Transition Economies

By: Kym Anderson,Johan Swinnen

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Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Europe's Transition Economies

By: Kym Anderson,Johan Swinnen

The vast majority of the world's poorest households depend on farming for their livelihood. During the 1960s and 1970s, most developing countries imposed pro-urban and anti-agricultural policies, while many high-income countries restricted agricultural imports and subsidized their farmers. Both sets of policies inhibited economic growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries. Although progress has been made over the past two decades to reduce those policy biases, many trade- and welfare-reducing price distortions remain between agriculture and other sectors as well as within the agricultural sector of both rich and poor countries. Comprehensive empirical studies of the disarray in world agricultural markets first appeared approximately 20 years ago. Since then the OECD has provided estimates each year of market distortions in high-income countries, but there has been no comparable estimates for the world's developing countries. This volume is the first in a series (other volumes cover Africa, Asia, and Latin America) that not only fill that void for recent years but extend the estimates in a consistent and comparable way back in time--and provide analytical narratives for scores of countries that shed light on the evolving nature and extent of policy interventions over the past half-century. 'Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Europe's Transition Economies' provides an overview of the evolution of distortions to agricultural incentives caused by price and trade policies in the economies of Eastern Europe and Central Asia that are transitioning away from central planning. The book includes country and subregional studies of the ten transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe that joined the European Union in 2004 or 2007, of seven other large member countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, and of Turkey. Together these countries comprise over 90 percent of the Europe and Central Asia region's population and GDP. Sectoral, trade, and exchange rate policies in the region have changed greatly since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, but price distortions remain. The new empirical indicators in these country studies provide a strong evidence-based foundation for evaluating policy options in the years ahead.

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World Bank Publications

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0821374206

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9780821374207

COVID-19 and global food security

By: Swinnen, Johan, ed.,McDermott, John, ed.

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COVID-19 and global food security

By: Swinnen, Johan, ed.,McDermott, John, ed.

The coronavirus pandemic has sparked not only a health crisis but also an economic crisis, which together pose a serious threat to food security, particularly in poorer countries. COVID-19 & Global Food Security brings together a groundbreaking series of IFPRI blog posts looking at the impacts of COVID-19 and the policy responses. IFPRI researchers and guest bloggers provide key insights and analysis on how the global pandemic is affecting global poverty and food security and nutrition, food trade and supply chains, gender, employment, and a variety of policy interventions, as well as reflections on how we can use these lessons to better prepare for future pandemics. These pieces draw on a combination of conceptual arguments, global and country-level simulation models, in-country surveys, case studies, and expert opinions. Together, they present a comprehensive picture of the current and potential impact of COVID-19 and the world’s policy responses on global food and nutrition security.

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Intl Food Policy Res Inst

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0896293874

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From Marx and Mao to the Market

The Economics and Politics of Agricultural Transition

By: Johan F.M. Swinnen,Scott Rozelle

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The Economics and Politics of Agricultural Transition

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Oxford University Press, USA

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Beeronomics

How Beer Explains the World

By: Johan Swinnen,Devin Briski

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How Beer Explains the World

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Land & EU Accession

Review of the Transitional Restrictions by New Member States on the Acquisition of Agricultural Real Estate

By: Johan F. M. Swinnen,Liesbet Vranken

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Land & EU Accession

Review of the Transitional Restrictions by New Member States on the Acquisition of Agricultural Real Estate

By: Johan F. M. Swinnen,Liesbet Vranken

Efficient land transactions and a functioning land market play an important role in economic development and growth. Yet, during the negotiations for their accession to the European Union in 2004, candidate countries requested the possibility to maintain restrictions on the acquisition of agricultural land and forests by foreigners for a certain period of time. Among other reasons, they considered the restrictions necessary to protect their agricultural sectors from shocks that might arise from the differences in land prices and incomes with the rest of the EU. This study reviews these transitional measures and the evolution of the agricultural sector in seven new member states, drawing conclusions about the impact of the restrictions and the necessity of maintaining them today." --Book Jacket.

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CEPS

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9290798270

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Towards a Sustainable European Agricultural Policy for the 21st Century

By: Johan F. M. Swinnen

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Towards a Sustainable European Agricultural Policy for the 21st Century

By: Johan F. M. Swinnen

The debate on agricultural policy in the EU has been very lively and politically prominent over the past months. The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the EU has undergone major changes since it was first implemented at the end of the 1960s. Commentators suggest that the CAP changes made in the Agenda 2000 reform package were insufficient to address the problems facing the CAP in the coming years. These include enlargement, new trade negotiations and the demand by European society for a safe, sustainable agri-food system, to name but a few. This report highlights the most pressing challenges to creating a sustainable CAP for the 21st century. It focuses on strategic policy options that are closely linked to the CAP system to be "hands on"; but the report refrains from becoming too specific on policy details, focusing instead on the important strategic questions. It offers six recommendations for good governance, that aim to remove bureaucratic constraints from the food industry, yet strengthen consistency and good practice.

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Quality Standards, Value Chains, and International Development

Quality Standards, Value Chains, and International Development

Beeronomics

Beeronomics

Quality Standards, Value Chains, and International Development

Quality Standards, Value Chains, and International Development

Political Power and Economic Policy

Political Power and Economic Policy

From Marx and Mao to the Market

From Marx and Mao to the Market

Aging and Dementia

Aging and Dementia

Quantitative Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Quantitative Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

The Political Economy of Agricultural and Food Policies

The Political Economy of Agricultural and Food Policies

Political Power and Economic Policy

Political Power and Economic Policy

Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Europe's Transition Economies

Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Europe's Transition Economies

COVID-19 and global food security

COVID-19 and global food security

From Marx and Mao to the Market

From Marx and Mao to the Market

Beeronomics

Beeronomics

Land & EU Accession

Land & EU Accession

Towards a Sustainable European Agricultural Policy for the 21st Century

Towards a Sustainable European Agricultural Policy for the 21st Century

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