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Meilke, Karl D.; Nazli, Hina. |
This document provides an index and a guide to the activities of the North American Agrifood Market Integration Consortium (NAAMIC) and its predecessor organization the Policy Disputes Information Consortium (PDIC). The first meeting of the group took place in Rio Rico, Arizona in March 1995 and the most recent in Cancun, Mexico in June 2007. Since 1995 the group has held an annual workshop where issues of importance to the three member nations of the NAFTA can be discussed in an open and frank forum. It is one of the few trinational activities where academics, government employees and private sector agents can meet to discuss common problems. The activities of the group are predicated on the belief that unbiased information presented to public and private... |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Market; Integration; NAFTA; NAAMIC; Agricultural and Food Policy; International Development; International Relations/Trade. |
Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43456 |
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Orden, David; Salam, Abdul; Dewina, Reno; Nazli, Hina; Minot, Nicholas. |
The incidence of rural poverty in Pakistan increased during the late 1990s after having declined during the 1980s and early 1990s. A number of structural factors have been identified as contributing to rural poverty in Pakistan. Among them are low levels of health and education spending and the unequal of farmland distribution. These structural factors help explain the levels of poverty in Pakistan, but not the increase in poverty in the late 1990s. One hypothesis is that the increase in rural poverty is the result of an adverse trend in world commodity prices, particularly cotton, a major commercial crop, and other agricultural commodities such as wheat, rice, and sugar. The overall objective of this paper is to measure the impact of changes in world... |
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty. |
Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/21381 |
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