Competitiveness of the Garment Industry in Pakistan with Particular Focus on Piece Rate Workers When the Multi-fibre Arrangement (MFA) was phased out on 1 January 2005, textile and garment 1 exporters in World Trade Organization (WTO) member countries in principle became subject to tough competition...
The model serves as the basis to propose indicators of crisis impact and country vulnerability to external food-production crises, which highlight that countries with largest water resources have the highest impact on the international trade and that not only water-scarce but also wealthy and ...
This is the first attempt to examine empirically the effects of the implementation of digital public services (DPS) on the value of trade in green goods (TGG). By applying diverse econometric techniques to a sample of 25 European economies for the period 2012–2019, the results show that DPS...
Evidence on the long-term influence of climatic variables on pertussis is limited. This study aims to explore the long-term quantitative relationship between weather variability and pertussis. Data on the monthly number of pertussis cases and weather parameters in Chongqing in the period of 2004–201...
The situation has since deteriorated in key conflict areas, notably in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan, and remains extremely dire in Yemen. The worsening droughts and economic shocks have led to increasing acute food insecurity in countries such as Haiti, Pakistan and Zimbabwe...
rugulosa, Neosartorya f...: A field study was carried out at villages Nazar Killi and Ziam Banda of districts Mardan and Swabi, in Pakistan, during kharif 2000 to determine the effect of various amendments on the yield of rice crop under saline conditions. The treatments wer...: 1. Pig ...
Designing the sound of the future for ‘Ghost in the Shell’ Behind the sound for 'Moana / Vaiana' Video: Behind the sound for 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' Creating the dramatic, intense sound for ‘Deepwater Horizon’ The story behind the scary sounds of Blair Witch Making the sound...
Analyzing a year of natural disasters, we discovered that these do, in fact, cause rural household migration. Further investigation reveals a heterogeneous effect. While natural disasters increase the probability of migration for those with average dependence on agriculture, this is not the case for ...
In late 2009, China's Ministry of Agriculture released biosafety certificates for the Bt rice Huahui No. 1 and Bt Shanyou 63. Other field trials on Bt rice have also been conducted in Pakistan, Spain, Iran and India. Reports of the develop- ment and evaluation of Bt rice have been ...
Environmental issues have gained the attention of regulators and researchers worldwide. This present study empirically examines the validation of the envir