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Technical Bulletin
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Success in Agricultural Transformation
To lift and keep millions out of poverty requires that smallholder agriculture be productive and profitable in the developing world. Do we know how to make this happen? Researchers and practitioners still debate how best to do so. The prevailing methodology, which claims causality from measures of statistical significance, is inductive and yields contradictory results. In this book, instead of correlations, Isabelle Tsakok looks for patterns common to cases of successful agricultural transformation and then tests them against other cases. She proposes a hypothesis that five sets of conditions are necessary to achieve success. She concludes that government investment in and delivery of public goods and services sustained over decades is essential to maintaining these conditions and thus successfully transform poverty-ridden agricultures. No amount of foreign aid can substitute for such sustained government commitment. The single most important threat to such government commitment is subservience to the rich and powerful minority.
CARD Report
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Food and Society
This timely and engaging text offers students a social perspective on food, food practices, and the modern food system. It engages readers’ curiosity by highlighting several paradoxes: how food is both mundane and sacred, reveals both distinction and conformity, and, in the contemporary global era, comes from everywhere but nowhere in particular. With a social constructionist framework, the book provides an empirically rich, multi-faceted, and coherent introduction to this fascinating field. Each chapter begins with a vivid case study, proceeds through a rich discussion of research insights, and ends with discussion questions and suggested resources. Chapter topics include food’s role in socialization, identity, work, health and social change, as well as food marketing and the changing global food system. In synthesizing insights from diverse fields of social inquiry, the book addresses issues of culture, structure, and social inequality throughout. Written in a lively style, this book will be both accessible and revealing to beginning and intermediate students alike.
New Publications
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Economic Effects of Antidumping & Countervailing Duty Orders & Suspension Agreements
This analysis consists of estimating economic effects at an economy-wide level and at the industry level. The industry-specific case studies include a comprehensive empirical analysis of conditions in the affected industries: frozen concentrated orange juice, lamb meat, EPROMS (a type of semiconductor integrated circuit), color TV picture tubes, urea (high-nitrogen content fertilizer), brass sheet and strip, standard welded steel pipes and tubes, and bearings. Provides estimates of the effects on prices, production, employment, wages, income, and trade.
Current Law Index
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