1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458288303321

Titolo

Agricultural price distortions, inequality, and poverty [[electronic resource] /] / Kym Anderson, John Cockburn and Will Martin, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : World Bank, 2010

ISBN

1-282-65738-0

9786612657382

0-8213-8185-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1007 p.)

Collana

Trade and Development Series

Altri autori (Persone)

AndersonKym

CockburnJohn

MartinWill <1953->

Disciplina

339.4/6

Soggetti

Agricultural prices - Government policy

Farm income - Developing countries

Agricultural wages - Developing countries

Poverty

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Abbreviations; Part I: Introduction; Chapter 1: Introduction and Summary; Part II: Global CGE Approaches; Chapter 2: Global Welfare and Poverty Effects: Linkage Model Results; Chapter 3: Global Poverty and Distributional Impacts: The GIDD Model; Chapter 4: Poverty Impacts in 15 Countries: The GTAP Model; Part III: National CGE Approaches: Asia; Chapter 5: China; Chapter 6: Indonesia; Chapter 7: Pakistan; Chapter 8: The Philippines; Chapter 9: Thailand; Part IV: National CGE Approaches: Africa

Chapter 10: MozambiqueChapter 11: South Africa; Part V: National CGE Approaches: Latin America; Chapter 12: Argentina; Chapter 13: Brazil; Chapter 14: Nicaragua; Appendix: Border Price and Export Demand Shocks in Developing Countries from Rest-of-the-World Trade Liberalization: The Linkage Model; Index; Back cover



Sommario/riassunto

Trade policy reforms in recent decades have sharply reduced the distortions that were harming agriculture in developing countries. Yet global trade in farm products continues to be far more distorted than trade in nonfarm goods, and in ways that reduce some forms of poverty and inequality but worsen others, so the net effects are unclear without empirical modeling. Using a new set of estimates of agricultural price distortions, this book brings together economy-wide global and national empirical studies that focus on the net effects of the remaining distortions to world merchandise trade on po

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996466454403316

Titolo

Emerging Technologies for Education [[electronic resource] ] : Third International Symposium, SETE 2018, Held in Conjunction with ICWL 2018, Chiang Mai, Thailand, August 22–24, 2018, Revised Selected Papers / / edited by Tianyong Hao, Wei Chen, Haoran Xie, Wanvimol Nadee, Rynson Lau

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

3-030-03580-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 255 p. 91 illus., 39 illus. in color.)

Collana

Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI ; ; 11284

Disciplina

371.33

Soggetti

Application software

Education—Data processing

Coding theory

Information theory

Artificial intelligence

Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)

Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences

Computers and Education

Coding and Information Theory

Artificial Intelligence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.



Nota di contenuto

Emerging Technologies of Design, Model and Framework of Learning Systems -- Emerging Technologies Support for Intelligent Tutoring -- Emerging Technologies Support for Game-Based and Joyful Learning -- Emerging Technologies of Pedagogical Issues -- UMLL (International Symposium on User Modeling and Language Learning) -- ETLTL (International Workshop on Educational Technology for Language and Translation Learning).

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the Third International Symposium, SETE 2018, held in conjunction with ICWL 2018, Chiang Mai, Thailand, in August 2018. The 23 full and 3 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. The papers have been organized in the following topical sections: Emerging Technologies of Design, Model and Framework of Learning Systems; Emerging Technologies Support for Intelligent Tutoring; Emerging Technologies Support for Game-Based and Joyful Learning; Emerging Technologies of Pedagogical Issues; UMLL (International Symposium on User Modeling and Language Learning); ETLTL (International Workshop on Educational Technology for Language and Translation Learning).