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| Yeboah, Osei-Agyeman; Appiah-Danquah, Gloria. |
| China was admitted into the WTO in December 2001 and this raised the hopes of the US that China will open up to agricultural trade with the US. However, this potential has not been realized. The goal of this study is to determine the impacts of trade impediments and barriers of the market access of US oilseeds and grains in China. A market access variable that was obtained by dividing the total value of U.S soybean and corn exports to China by U.S agricultural G.D.P was regressed on China’s per capita income, exchange rate of the yuan to the dollar, arable land to labor ratio in the U.S and a dummy variable representing China’s WTO accession. The result found per capita income to have a positive impact on market access of U.S oilseeds and grains in China.... |
| Tipo: Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Market Access; Market Access Barriers; U.S Oil seeds and Grains; Import; International Development; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/119794 |
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| Yeboah, Osei-Agyeman; Faulkner, Paula E.; Appiah-Danquah, Gloria. |
| Americans have been warned that U.S. dominance in the world’s economy is fading because of the country’s poor educational performance. North Carolina falls in the bottom 10 states for the percentage of students graduating. During the 2006-07 school year, over 22,000 students in grades 9-12 dropped out of school in North Carolina. Dropouts cost North Carolina millions of dollars each year. The cost includes at least $169 million annually in taxes and public spending. High levels of poverty and low income housing have long been viewed as a stimulus to the increase in the number of high school dropouts. To address this issue, educators, policy makers, community and business leaders are examining ways to reduce the number of dropouts in every county. This... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Dropouts; Economy; North Carolina.; Community/Rural/Urban Development. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56463 |
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