scholarly journals Pakistan's Edible Oil Needs and Prospects for Self-sufficiency

1998 ◽  
Vol 37 (4II) ◽  
pp. 205-216
Author(s):  
M. Ghaffar Chaudhry ◽  
Amir Mahmood ◽  
Ghulam Mustafa Chaudhry
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crises ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Edible Oils ◽  
Edible Oil ◽  
Local Production ◽  
Oil Crops ◽  
Policy Alternatives ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
State Of Affairs

In today's world economy, financial crises have been quite rampant and have been a source of greater misery, deprivation and poverty among a growing number of countries [Wolfensehn (1998)]. Some of the major causes of this state of affairs especially in Pakistan lie in rising debt servicing liabilities, receding donor assistance and growing saving-investment and import-export gaps [UN (1997)]. To the extent that the above situation can be ameliorated considerably by emphasis on domestic production especially in agriculture, this paper looks at possibilities of increasing the production of oil-crops for eliminating edible oil imports. It must be noted that self-reliance in edible oil is not important in its own right but would also be consistent with more judicious use of domestic resources, greater food security, enhanced welfare of consumers and producers and above all saving of scarce foreign exchange resources [Goldman (1975) and Mellor and Johnston (1984)]. In line with the above, the paper has the following outline. Section 2 reviews edible oil situation in the country. The factors underlying the growing edible oil deficit are highlighted in Section 3. In Section 4 discussion is centred on policy alternatives for attainment of self-sufficiency in edible oils through local production. The final Section 5 summarises the conclusions of the paper.

scholarly journals Indian oilseed sector : Need for self-sufficiency in oilseed production

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (AAEBSSD) ◽  
pp. 46-51
Author(s):  
Rajkaranbir Singh
Keyword(s):  
Edible Oils ◽  
Edible Oil ◽  
Oilseed Crop ◽  
Oil Consumption ◽  
Indian Agriculture ◽  
Oil Crops ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Oilseed Production ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
To Come

Oil crops are an ideal component in the sustainable production system in Indian agriculture. But, the area under oilseeds has experienced a deceleration in general, due to their relative lower profitability against competing crops like maize, cotton, chickpea, etc. under the prevailing crop growing and marketing situations. Despite being the fifth largest oilseed crop producing country in the world, India is also one of the largest importers of vegetable oils today. The country now imports nearly 60 per cent of the annual consumption of 259.22 million tonnes. However, increasing demand for edible oils necessitated the imports in large quantities leading to a substantial drain on foreign exchange. Edible oil consumption in the country has been consistently rising faster than production due to growth in population, increasing income levels and the emerging dietary changes are driving increasing use of edible oils. An immediate action towards this sector is utmost required or the dependency on import will certainly increase in the days to come due to mushrooming population and increased per capita consumption. It is, therefore, necessary to exploit domestic resources to maximize production to ensure edible oil security for the country.

scholarly journals Self-reliance Policy in Edible Oil and the Social Profitability of Pakistan's Oilseed Crops

1994 ◽  
Vol 33 (4II) ◽  
pp. 819-835
Author(s):  
Amir Mahmood ◽  
M. Ghaffar Chaudhry
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Edible Oils ◽  
Green Revolution ◽  
Edible Oil ◽  
Annual Growth Rate ◽  
Average Growth ◽  
The Social ◽  
Oil Sector ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Unintended Outcome

Like many other South Asian countries the advent of the green revolution has led to increased productivity of many cash and food crops in Pakistan and a noticeable movement towards food-sufficiency, especially in case of wheat. One unintended outcome of these achievements has been the neglect of the oilseed and edible oil sector at all levels of research and government. With a widening in the edible oil deficit, Pakistan has become increasingly dependent on imported edible oils. At an annual average growth rate of9.6 percent, Pakistan's edible oil imports have risen from 466.94 million kg. in 1980-81 to 1045.95 million kg. in 1991-92. By contrast the import costs during this period have risen from Rs 2.62 billion to Rs 10.2 billion showing an annual growth rate of nearly 13 percent. This unhappy state of affairs has been the result of not only of the rapidly accelerating pace of edible oil demand but also of deceleration in the growth rate of domestic production [Government of Pakistan (1992)].

Children with Disabilities: Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges Ahead

2020 ◽  
pp. 593-613
Author(s):  
Maya Sabatello ◽  
Mary Frances Layden
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
The World ◽  
Child Friendly ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Successes And Challenges

Children with disabilities are among the most vulnerable groups in the world—and a children’s rights approach is key for reversing historical wrongs and for promoting an inclusive future. To establish this argument, this chapter explores the state of affairs and legal protections for upholding the rights of children with disabilities. It critically examines major developments in the international framework that pertain to the rights of children with disabilities, and it considers some of the prime achievements—and challenges—that arise in the implementation of a child-friendly disability rights agenda. The chapter then zooms in on two particularly salient issues for children with disabilities, namely, inclusive education and deinstitutionalization, and highlights the successes and challenges ahead. The final section provides some concluding thoughts about the present and the prospect of upholding the human rights of children with disabilities.

Globalization of Economy: qualis es et quo vadis?

2011 ◽  
pp. 16-24
Author(s):  
V. Pan'kov
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Transnational Corporations ◽  
Main Subject ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World ◽  
Quo Vadis ◽  
State Of Affairs

In a long historical perspective, the globalization of the economy is, no doubt, the future of the mankind. However, we should not overlook the contradiction that has dramatically intensified as a result of the 2008-2009 recession. This is the contradiction between globalization as an objective process with mostly positive effects and its model that is being implemented today (namely, the policy of globalization). Furthermore, we can propose a number of important arguments in favor of a statement that at the current state of affairs the globalization has exhausted itself. Nobody can exclude a short-term braking down of the globalization progress nor even a U-turn, albeit temporary, to a de-globalization. Under unfavorable circumstances such a reverse movement can cover the entire period up to 2020. The author states that transnational corporations are the main subject of the world economy which will the most actively oppose such a development.

scholarly journals A Note on the Edible Oil Milling Sector Output, Value Added and Employment

1977 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-463
Author(s):  
Sohail J. Malik
Keyword(s):  
Urban Population ◽  
Edible Oils ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Oil Industry ◽  
Edible Oil

The importance of the edible oil industry cannot be over-emphasised, Most of the urban population and an increasing proportion of the rural popula¬tion depend upon it for their cooking needs. As indigenous supplies are highly inadequate, large quantities of edible oils have to be imported to meet domestic requirements, as shown in Table 1.

scholarly journals FINANCIAL CRISIS: ILLUSION OF SUPPRESSION

2019 ◽  
pp. 141-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu. S. Begma ◽  
E. V. Zenkina
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Crises ◽  
World Economy ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Detailed Consideration ◽  
Market Capitalism ◽  
Financial Technology

It has been shown, that the financial crises in the last twenty years intensified attempts to rethink the dominant neo-liberal concepts of globalization of monetary and credit relations. Achievements of financial technology allowed to overcome some arising problems and generated hopes for a possibility of preservation of a former paradigm of market capitalism and regularities of globalization of world economy. However, a more detailed consideration of new developments in the field of international monetary and financial relations leads to the conclusion, that such hopes are illusory.

scholarly journals Antibiogram Screening of Edible oils Sold in two Geopolitical Zones of Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 867-870
Author(s):  
O.N. Akomah-Abadaike ◽  
O.B. Iwuji
Keyword(s):  
Heterotrophic Bacteria ◽  
Edible Oils ◽  
Bacterial Load ◽  
Palm Kernel ◽  
Microbiological Quality ◽  
Antibiotic Sensitivity ◽  
Coconut Oil ◽  
Edible Oil ◽  
Shea Butter ◽  
Candida Sp

Edible oil is of the most important and widely used processed foods. The study was carried out to assess the microbiological quality of edible oil (Shea butter, Coconut oil and Palm Kernel oil) from two geopolitical zones of the country. A total of thirty (30) samples were gotten from four (4) different markets in the two geopolitical zones. Bacteria and Fungi were isolated and identified base on cultural, microscopic, biochemical characteristics and antibiotic sensitivity test were carried out. The total heterotrophic bacteria count (THBC) of the sample ranged from 3.1 x 103 – 3.6 x 104cfu/ml. The total heterotrophic fungi count ranged from 1.0 x 102 – 6.4 x 103cfu/ml. The bacteria isolated and identified were Bacillus sp., Escherichia sp., Pseudomonas sp., Micrococcus sp., Staphyloccus sp., Enterobacterium sp., and Klebsiella sp while the fungi were Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus fumigatus, Rhizopus, Fusarium, Candida sp and Penicillium sp. The antibiogram of the Gram positive bacteria showed that all the organisms were sensitive to Erythromycin (100%) while Gram negative organisms were sensitive to Ofloxacin (100%) and Ciprofloxacin (100%). The bacterial load of all the samples fell within the minimum acceptable range according to CODEX standard. It is important that improve aseptic techniques be employed in the production, handling and marketing of edible oil.

scholarly journals Origins and Resolution of Financial Crises: Lessons from the Current and Northern European Crises

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 178-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Finn Østrup ◽  
Lars Oxelheim ◽  
Clas Wihlborg
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Housing Market ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Financial Crises ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Credit Crunch ◽  
Original Strain ◽  
Northern European ◽  
The World ◽  
The U.S

Since July 2007, the world economy has experienced a severe financial crisis that originated in the U.S. housing market. Subsequently, the crisis has spread to financial sectors in European and Asian economies and led to a severe worldwide recession. The existing literature on financial crises rarely distinguishes between factors that create the original strain on the financial sector and factors that explain why these strains lead to system-wide contagion and a possible credit crunch. Most of the literature on financial crises refers to factors that cause an original disruption in the financial system. We argue that a financial crisis with its contagion within the system is caused by failures of legal, regulatory, and political institutions.

"En fullkomlig man"

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 120-128
Author(s):  
Alfred Sjödin
Keyword(s):  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Bourgeois Society ◽  
Moral Crisis ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The Ideal

“The Complete Man”: Body and Society in Viktor Rydberg The article treats the place of the body in the cultural criticism of Viktor Rydberg, not only as a central theme but also as an image with the potential to figuratively describe societal and even cosmic relationships. Rydberg’s ideal of the symmetrical and athletic body is seen in the perspective of his dependence on German neo-humanism and the gymnastic movement. The ideal of bodily symmetry figures as an image of universal man who defies the division of labor, while the deformed body inversely figures as an image of the lack of wholeness in a stratified bourgeois society. This is further elucidated by an analysis of Rydberg’s view of Darwinism and his fear of degeneration. In the final section, special attention is given to Rydberg’s broodings on the “Future of the White Race”. In this text, the body is a figure of the collectivity (the body politic) and its diseases signify political and moral crisis, while the remedy for this state of affairs lies in recognizing the unity of the living, the dead and the unborn in the body of Christ. 

Antidotes to Brexit

2020 ◽  
pp. 165-182
Author(s):  
Andrew Ryder
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Critical Multiculturalism ◽  
Structural Framework ◽  
Authoritarian Populism ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Core Message ◽  
The Eu

A core message of the book is that authoritarian populism (Brexit nationalism) is a state of affairs where emotions are orchestrated by an increasingly demagogic subsection of the elite to polarise, mobilise and demonise, a reactive, illiberal and antagonist form of politics. It presents a threat in that although perhaps it has manifested itself in one of its most extreme forms in Britain through Brexit, it is in fact an endemic threat to all of Europe. In January 2019 a group of thirty lead European thinkers, writers, historians and nobel laureates, declared that Europe as an idea was “coming apart before our eyes” and the consequences would be “calamitous” if the rising tide of populism was not challenged. The final section of the book seeks to identify the panacea to the rise of authoritarian populism and forms of agonism, both in Britain and Europe. Britain’s future relationship with the EU will be a key determiner in Britain’s course as a nation, hence the book advocates Britain’s eventual re-entry into a reformed European Union grounded within the concept of Social Europe and a conception of identity that is inclusive and accommodated in a structural framework that is deliberative and egalitarian. The chapter also seeks to challenge ‘post-truth’ politics through a reformed public sphere and inclusive and bridging speech acts and rhetoric. Finally, the chapter reflects on the value of critical multiculturalism as a mechanism that might dispel monoculturalism and nativism.

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