Heterogeneities in landed costs of traded grains and oilseeds contribute to unequal access to food by Verschuur, J, Vittis, Y, Obersteiner, M, Hall, JW

“…Despite the growing accessibility of international grain and oilseed markets, high production costs and trade frictions are still prevalent, contributing to regional heterogeneities in the landed cost of grain imports. …”

The US–China Trade War: Quantify the Negative Shocks to Local Housing Markets and Land-Based Finance in Chinese Cities by Li, Boning, Liao, Wen-Chi, Sun, Weizeng, Zeng, Yongxuan, Zheng, Siqi

“…However, the trade war has severely struck the cities’ housing markets and land sales since 2018. …”
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Strategies to encourage women workers to sign up and remain in trade unions by Ismail, Fadillah, Abdul Kadir, Adibah, Mohamad Azmi, Nur Azia Hazida, Mohd Yusof, Halimah

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Essays on the market for corporate bonds by Levonmaa, A

“…Using intraday transaction data from the TRACE database, I analyse over 1,000 of the most liquid corporate bonds, a total of 9.5 million trades. …”

Development of the bond markets in Singapore and Malaysia. by Chan, Wei Lun.

“…The study also explores avenues for increasing the demand for corporate bonds such as increasing provident fund investments in bonds; changes to the commission rate structure for bond trading, and reduction or abolition of tax for interest received and stamp duty transferances. …”
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Eric Bogle’s No Man’s Land and the grave of Willie McBride at the Somme by Walsh, Michael J. K.

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Unsupervised land-use change detection using multi-temporal POI embedding by Yao, Yao, Zhu, Qia, Guo, Zijin, Huang, Weiming, Zhang, Yatao, Yan, Xiaoqin, Dong, Anning, Jiang, Zhangwei, Liu, Hong, Guan, Qingfeng

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Balancing degradability and mechanical strength in keto modified polyethylene through hydrogen bonds by Li, Ke, Chen, Xi, Pan, Yuqing, Min, Benzhi, Ye, Enyi, Li, Shuzhou, Li, Zibiao, Loh, Xian Jun

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The impacts of US Fed interest rate liftoff on Southwest Asia stock markets, sovereign bond and currencies by Ooi, Teik Khim

“…While, the second model traces the announcement effect of Non-Farm Payroll (NFP) figure. …”
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Energy Management: A Case Study on the Malaysian Government Office Building by Mohd Nawi, Mohd Nasrun, Baharum, Faizal, Rajemi, Mohamad Farizal, Ibrahim, Jafni Azhan, Tahir, Mohamad Zamhari

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Adjustable wind selectivity in shearwaters implies knowledge of the foraging landscape by Harris, S, Bishop, C, Bond, S, Fernandes, P, Guilford, T, Lewin, P, Padget, O, Robins, P, Schneider, W, Waggitt, J, Wilmes, S, Cordes, L

16.01-04 Unified Engineering I, II, III, & IV, Fall 2003-Spring 2004 by Hall, Steven Ray, Coleman, Charles P, Drela, Mark, Lundqvist, Ingrid Kristina, Spearing, S Mark, Waitz, Ian A, Young, Peter W

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Unjust energy transition: vignettes from the COPs, climate finance and a coal hotspot by Sud, N

“…This paper has two objectives. First, it traces the trajectory of justice claims in the lead-up to the just transition agenda. …”

Cooperation amidst competition : the role of rubber in shaping Japanese and Straits Chinese relations in Malaya, 1914-1941 by Cao, Mingmin

“…This thesis aims to highlight this unlikely cooperation between the two key players of the rubber trade in the interwar years.…”
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Regulasi dan Dasar Ekonomi Sebelah Penawaran: Langkah Alternatif untuk Mengurangkan Bebanan Ekonomi Peniaga dalam Majlis Perbandaran Kubang Pasu (MPKP) (S/O: 14674) by Abdullah, Muhammad Ridhuan Bos, Noor, Mohd Saifoul Zamzuri, Bakar, Normizan, Hasan Basri, Bakti, Fadzim, Wan Roshidah, Musa, Rusmani

“…Kajian penyelidikan gunaan ini menjelaskan bagaimana pandemik Covid-19 memberi impak kepada ekonomi pada masa kini dan berbeza kepada rakyat bergantung kepada kumpulan pendapatan mereka, bandar dengan luar bandar dan sektor pekerjaan formal atau informal. …”
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Institutions and agricultural transformation: a study of induced innovation in the Philippine rice sector by Montesclaros, Jose Ma. Luis P.

“…Research findings supported the hypotheses that agricultural transformation was impeded by the three factors: 1) an industrialisation-inspired de-facto currency overvaluation regime removed farmers’ potential to capture export markets, the latter serving as a “carrot” for adopting innovation; 2) trade protectionist policies in the rice sector removed import competition as a “stick” for adopting innovation; and 3) industrialisation- and land reform-related capital scarcity among smallholder farmers hindered the dynamics of IIA from taking place. …”
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Managing longevity risks in Singapore : an analysis of returns on variable annuities using the Lee-Carter model, financial time series analysis and Monte Carlo simulation by Sun, Si Lu, Yu, Shu Mei, Zhang, Chen

“…There are risk-return trade- offs which require the policyholders to consider their risk appetite in choosing a suitable portfolio. …”
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Venezia e il Peloponneso, 992-1718 : indagini storiche tra territorio, biblioteca e archivio by Nanetti, Andrea

“…The extraordinary wealth of archival documents, chronicles, travel reports, archaeological sites and monuments, still for the most part to be studied, makes the privileged relationship between Venice and the Peloponnese a key element for the study of Venetian society, with reference to choices made by Venetians in the search for an ethical relationship with the Other in the geopolitical pursuit of their constitutional aim, i.e. far la marchadantia pacifichamente (to trade peacefully). In an almost millenary chronology (992-1718), the Peloponnese – a land on the maritime border between the Ionian and the Aegean Seas, a cultural and commercial link between the Latin-Roman West and the Hellenistic East – is a privileged laboratory for the training of the next generation of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural historians, and for staunch supporters of peace among peoples.…”
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Fork to farm: reverse engineering a food system by Ingram, J, Barling, D, Bayes, N, Cottee, J, Dickinson, A, Hardman, C, Holub, E, Jones, K, Leadley, C, Maguire, R, Michaels, L, Midgley, G, Rajagopalan, R, Zhang, J, Zurek, M

“…Three demand scenarios were developed, based on increasing UK average daily consumption from 8.5g to either 17g, 34g or 50g, together with three enterprise opportunities (‘Community Enterprise’, ‘Artisanal Entrepreneurs’ and ‘Food Giants’) to satisfy these demands in different ways. The benefits and trade-offs of scaling UK beans were analysed, including assessments of overall benefits to health, benefits to the environment (which depend on the methods of land conversion and weed management used), and economic benefits (which depend on the scaling method employed).…”

Offshore renminbi market. by Peh, Derrick Chin Kiat., Heng, Zoey Peishan., Sei, Sin Yee.

“…Chapter 3 examines the offshore renminbi market from the borrowers’ point of view. An analysis of bond issuers is also presented. Chapter 4 explains offshore clearing of the renminbi, and examines the reasons accounting for a different renminbi foreign exchange rate onshore (CNY) and offshore (CNH). …”
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