Summary and conclusions from the SIWI Seminar for Young Water Professionals Drainage basin security - implications of virtual water trade and agricultural subsidies at regional, national and local levels

2004 ◽  
Vol 49 (7) ◽  
pp. 215-218
Author(s):  
Å. Johannessen

This is a summary of the Young Water Professionals Seminar involving more than 50 young people from all over the world working with water. The presentations and following discussion were very lively and were about how subsidies and trade barriers imposed by the developed countries are influencing the income-generating capacity of millions of people in the developing world. Even though this is a very complex issue not easily resolved during the seminar it was also clear that there are some fundamental problems that need to be addressed. The importance of looking for solutions at different levels (i.e. local, regional, national) was highlighted as well as the policy of double standards, preaching free trade but only for the benefit of overdeveloped countries themselves. Further it was discussed how to achieve basin security through food security, and managing water for food security. The conclusion was that win-win solutions would be made if agricultural subsidies were to be completely removed.

2004 ◽  
Vol 49 (7) ◽  
pp. 219-220
Author(s):  
J. Kuylenstierna

The relationships between subsidies, trade and water issues and poverty are complex. If trade barriers and subsidies were removed by the developed countries, it is likely that opportunities for the developing countries would improve - not just for increased trade but also for improved livelihood opportunities.


2013 ◽  
Vol 859 ◽  
pp. 608-612
Author(s):  
Bi Gang Hong

The development of rural e-commerce is a gradual process involving various factors, among which the application of information technology for the role of government is of great importance. Rural e-commerce in China is lagging behind compared with the developed countries. As a kind of basic public service, rural e-commerce has strong positive externality. Government at different levels have to share the responsibility in terms of capital input, financial aid, tax policy and legal support.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 1086
Author(s):  
Mona Aghabeygi ◽  
Filippo Arfini

In Italy, as one of the developed countries, the agricultural sector is key in supplying food, food security and food safety. In this study, the amount and value of net imports for various foodstuffs in Italy was used. At first, compensatory price elasticities were calculated by using the Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) and the effect of increasing the global price of food on net import welfare was studied. The results show that the welfare index of compensatory changes calculated for the entire food groups is 126.46 billion USD. Meat and beverage groups have the most and the least compensatory changes, respectively.


Author(s):  
A.K. Daribayeva ◽  
F. Shulenbaeva ◽  
A. Moldakhmetov ◽  
А.К. Дарибаева ◽  
Ф.А. Шуленбаева ◽  
...  

В статье раскрыта важность продовольственной безопасности с учетом точки зрения отечественных авторов. Предложены пути обеспечения продовольственной безопасности в стране за счет эффективного использования экономического потенциала страны в сельскохозяйственном производстве. Рассмотрены тенценции по сокращению миграционных потоков между развитыми странами мира, проблемы, возникшие в сельскохозяйственном производстве в условиях пандемии. Авторами проанализированы процессы сокращнения возможностей использования дешевой рабочей силы мигрирующего населения. Проведен анализ влияния пандемии на сельскохозяйственное производство нашей страны. Изучены тенденции развития сельскохозяйственного производства на мировом и национальном уровне. Выявлены проблемы зависимости от импорта на рынке реализации готовой продукции отрасли пищевой переработки сельскохозяйственного производства. В этой связи произведено переосмысление важности и необходимости сохранения, защиты продовольствененной безопасности, повышенияэффективностисельскохозяйственного производства республики. Изучен агропродовольственный рынок страны путём проведения анализа уровня самообеспечения зерном. Выявлено, что на зерновые культуры приходится около 69,1% всей площади посевов. Рассмотрен комплекс мероприятий по обеспечению продовольственной безопасности страны, в частности авторы предлагают предоставление налоговых и других льгот сельзозпредприятиям, строительство и оптимизацию производственных мощностей предприятий пищевой перерабатывающей промышленности АПК. The article reveals the importance of food security from the point of view of domestic authors. The ways to ensure food security in the country by effectively using the country's economic potential in agricultural production are suggested. The article considers the tendencies to reduce migration flows between the developed countries of the world, as well as the problems that have arisen in agricultural production in the context of the pandemic. The authors analyzed the processes of reducing the possibilities of using cheap labor of the migrating population. An analysis of the impact of the pandemic on agricultural production in our country has been carried out. Trends in the development of agricultural production at the global and national level are studied. The problems of dependence on imports in the market for the sale of finished products in the food processing industry of agricultural production are identified. In this regard, the importance and necessity of preserving and protecting food security and improving the efficiency of agricultural production in the Republic were reconsidered. The agro-food market of the country was studied by analyzing the level of self-sufficiency in grain. It was found that cereals account for about 69.1% of the total area of crops.A set of measures to ensure food security of the country is considered, in particular, the authors propose the provision of tax and other benefits to agricultural enterprises, construction and optimization of production capacities of food processing enterprises of the agro-industrial complex.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (09) ◽  
pp. 948-960
Author(s):  
Sawssen Nafti ◽  

In this paper, we empirically investigate if food security is specific to a space, a level of development or an economic mode, using Panel data. Our study initially exploited a total sample of 52 emerging and developed countries, for the period 1980-2006, then, we subdivided the sample in two subsamples according to the classification of the World Bank and according to the income. In this way, food safety can be defined as the capacity of all people to a sufficient, healthy and nutritive food, the physical and the economic access. Our results indicate that the countries in the process of development are the most vulnerable to food safety (in quantity: undernourishment) because of the increases of the percentage of poverty. But the developed countries suffers also by this problem( in quality: obesity).


2007 ◽  
pp. 4-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Ershov

Growing involvement of Russian economy in international economic sphere increases the role of external risks. Financial problems which the developed countries are encountered with today result in volatility of Russian stock market, liquidity problems for banks, unstable prices. These factors in total may put longer-term prospects of economic growth in jeopardy. Monetary, foreign exchange and stock market mechanisms become the centerpiece of economic policy approaches which should provide for stable development in the shaky environment.


2008 ◽  
pp. 94-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Sorokin

The problem of the Russian economy’s growth rates is considered in the article in the context of Russia’s backwardness regarding GDP per capita in comparison with the developed countries. The author stresses the urgency of modernization of the real sector of the economy and the recovery of the country’s human capital. For reaching these goals short- or mid-term programs are not sufficient. Economic policy needs a long-term (15-20 years) strategy, otherwise Russia will be condemned to economic inertia and multiplying structural disproportions.


Author(s):  
Umeshkannan P ◽  
Muthurajan KG

The developed countries are consuming more amount of energy in all forms including electricity continuously with advanced technologies.  Developing  nation’s  energy usage trend rises quickly but very less in comparison with their population and  their  method of generating power is not  seems  to  be  as  advanced  as  developed  nations. The   objective   function   of   this   linear   programming model is to maximize the average efficiency of power generation inIndia for 2020 by giving preference to energy efficient technologies. This model is subjected to various constraints like potential, demand, running cost and Hydrogen / Carbon ratio, isolated load, emission and already installed capacities. Tora package is used to solve this linear program. Coal,  Gas,  Hydro  and  Nuclear  sources can are  supply around 87 %  of  power  requirement .  It’s concluded that we can produce power  at  overall  efficiency  of  37%  while  meeting  a  huge demand  of  13,00,000  GWh  of  electricity.  The objective function shows the scenario of highaverage efficiency with presence of 9% renewables. Maximum value   is   restricted   by   low   renewable   source’s efficiencies, emission constraints on fossil fuels and cost restriction on some of efficient technologies. This    model    shows    that    maximum    18%    of    total requirement   can   be   met   by   renewable itself which reduces average efficiency to 35.8%.   Improving technologies  of  renewable  sources  and  necessary  capacity addition  to  them in  regular  interval  will  enhance  their  role and existence against fossil fuels in future. The work involves conceptualizing, modeling, gathering information for data’s to be used in model for problem solving and presenting different scenarios for same objective.


1970 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 469-490
Author(s):  
Nurul Islam

Foreign economic aid is at the cross-roads. There is an atmosphere of gloom and disenchantment surrounding international aid in both the developed and developing countries — more so in the former than in the latter. Doubts have grown in the developed countries, especially among the conservatives in these countries, as to the effectiveness of aid in promoting economic development, the wastes and inefficiency involved in the use of aid, the adequacy of self-help on the part of the recipient countries in husbanding and mobilising their own resources for development and the dangers of getting involved, through ex¬tensive foreign-aid operations, in military or diplomatic conflicts. The waning of confidence on the part of the donors in the rationale of foreign aid has been accentuated by an increasing concern with their domestic problems as well as by the occurrence of armed conflicts among the poor, aid-recipient countries strengthened by substantial defence expenditure that diverts resources away from development. The disenchantment on the part of the recipient countries is, on the other hand, associated with the inadequacy of aid, the stop-go nature of its flow in many cases, and the intrusion of noneconomic considerations governing the allocation of aid amongst the recipient countries. There is a reaction in the developing countries against the dependence, political and eco¬nomic, which heavy reliance on foreign aid generates. The threat of the in¬creasing burden of debt-service charge haunts the developing world and brings them back to the donors for renewed assistance and/or debt rescheduling.


INFO ARTHA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 17-28
Author(s):  
Anisa Fahmi

Motivated by inter-regional disparities condition that occurs persistently, this study examines the Indonesian economy in the long run in order to know whether it tends to converge or diverge. This convergence is based on the Solow Neoclassical growth theory assuming the existence of diminishing returns to capital so that when the developed countries reach steady state conditions, developing countries will continuously grow up to 'catch-up' with developed countries. Based on regional economics perspective, each region can not be treated as a stand-alone unit,therefore, this study also focuses on the influence of spatial dependency and infrastructure. Economical and political situations of a region will influence policy in that region which will also have an impact to the neighboring regions. The estimation results of spatial cross-regressive model using fixed effect method consistently confirmed that the Indonesian economy in the long term will likely converge with a speed of 8.08 percent per year. Other findings are road infrastructure has a positive effect on economic growth and investment and road infrastructure are spatially showed a positive effect on economic growth. In other words, the investment and infrastructure of a region does not only affect the economic growth of that region but also to the economy of the contiguous regions. 


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