scholarly journals Timber Market Information on Leyte Island, the Philippines

2007 ◽  
pp. 61-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edwin Cedamon ◽  
Steve Harrison ◽  
John Herbohn
Keyword(s):  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Market Information ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Demand Information ◽  
Timber Market ◽  
Available Information ◽  
Enterprise Survey ◽  
Tree Farm

Information is essential in making marketing decisions. This paper presents an assessment of information concerning the timber market in Leyte Island, focusing on sources, how to access supply and demand information, and usefulness and limitations of available information. The sources of timber market information include (i) Philippine Forestry Statistics, (ii) a database of registered tree plantations, (iii) a barangay-based inventory of trees on farms, and (iv) tree measurements and data collected in the timber enterprise survey conducted by the ACIAR Tree Farm Project. Based on available secondary data, there are 27,635 ha of forest in Leyte that is potentially harvestable. In addition, based on the findings of the barangay-based tree farm inventory, there are approximately 2.7 M trees on tree farms on Leyte Island. Timber demand by entrepreneurs on Leyte Island has not been calculated yet from the available survey data of the ACIAR Tree Farmer Project; however, estimates show that the annual per capita timber consumption of the Philippines for 2005 was 7.8 board feet. It was found that although some secondary data on timber market information are available from government agencies, particularly the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, consumer and producer-level data are scarce. Most of the producer and consumer-level data available to date were gathered through the ACIAR Tree Farm Project.

scholarly journals Meat Demand Monitor during COVID-19

Animals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1040
Author(s):  
Glynn Tonsor ◽  
Jayson Lusk ◽  
Shauna Tonsor
Keyword(s):  
Meat Products ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Household Level ◽  
Meat Demand ◽  
Pork Products ◽  
Food Expenditures ◽  
Hoarding Behavior ◽  
Level Data ◽  
The Us ◽  
Demand Changes

Meat products represent a significant share of US consumer food expenditures. The COVID-19 pandemic directly impacted both demand and supply of US beef and pork products for a prolonged period, resulting in a myriad of economic impacts. The complex disruptions create significant challenges in isolating and inferring consumer-demand changes from lagged secondary data. Thus, we turn to novel household-level data from a continuous consumer tracking survey, the Meat Demand Monitor, launched in February 2020, just before the US pandemic. We find diverse impacts across US households related to “hoarding” behavior and financial confidence over the course of the pandemic. Combined, these insights extend our understanding of pandemic impacts on US consumers and provide a timely example of knowledge enabled by ongoing and targeted household-level data collection and analysis.

Water-demand management: assessing impacts of climate and other changes on water usage in Central Arizona

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 288-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Netra B. Chhetri
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Demand ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Demand Management ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Active Management ◽  
Agricultural System ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Water Demand Management ◽  
Central Arizona

Planning for sustainable water management in the arid region of the southwestern USA is challenging mostly due to only partial understanding of factors converging around water supply and demand. Some of the factors that prompt concern about the adequacy of water resources are: (a) a growing urban population seeking a range of services, including the need to preserve and enhance aquatic ecosystems; (b) dwindling water storage due to multi-year drought conditions; and (c) the prospect of human-induced climate changes and its consequences in the hydrologic system of the region. This study analyzes the potential for water saving in the Phoenix Active Management Area (AMA) of Central Arizona, which includes the city of Phoenix, one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in the country. Based on an extensive literature review and secondary data analysis, this paper investigates multiple factors that place increasing strain on current water resources, and attempts to extend this analysis to 2025. Outdoor water use within the residential landscape is the most important factor that strains water resources in Phoenix AMA. Any gain in efficiency through agricultural water demand management would not only improve the availability of water for other uses in the AMA, but would facilitate adaptation of the agricultural system to climate and other ongoing changes.

scholarly journals An Ex-Post Investigation Of Interest Rate Parity In Asian Emerging Markets

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bahram Adrangi ◽  
Kambiz Raffiee ◽  
Todd M. Shank
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rate ◽  
Emerging Markets ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Uncovered Interest Parity ◽  
Interest Rate Parity ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Interest Parity ◽  
Asian Emerging Markets

This paper investigates the uncovered interest parity theory for the three emerging markets of Korea, the Philippines, and Thailand. The study provides evidence on the efficiency of the currency markets of these economies. In this paper we test for the uncovered interest parity because futures markets for currencies of most emerging markets are not well developed. Furthermore, short- term exchange rate supply and demand are often dominated by the uncovered international investments. Several statistical tests are applied in an attempt to detect evidence of uncovered interest parity. We find there is evidence that the currencies of higher interest rate emerging economies tend to depreciate in the future spot market. However, our test results indicate that this relationship does not support the uncovered interest parity strictly. Arbitrage opportunities remain for a longer periods than predicted by the uncovered interest parity. Furthermore, these abnormal gains are not random and could be predicted by a well designed econometric model. These findings are consistent with empirical findings surrounding uncovered interest parity for mature markets of the world.

scholarly journals Development and Performance of the Pepper Industry in Malaysia: A Critical Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 1402-1423
Author(s):  
Harry Entebang ◽  
Swee-Kiong Wong ◽  
Zehnder Jarroop Augustine Mercer
Keyword(s):  
Rural Community ◽  
Household Income ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
National Income ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Commodity Export ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Farm Inputs

The National Commodity Policy 2011-2020 was developed to increase the national income by harnessing the potential of commodity export revenues. Despite continuous efforts implemented by various related agencies, the overall performance of major commodities, particularly pepper, remains unsatisfactory. Regarded as a sought-after ‘king of spices’, pepper has become one of the most prized and important commodities traded globally. This paper highlights the development and performance of the pepper industry in Malaysia and discusses practical strategies and recommendations to transform the pepper industry. Besides conducting interviews with the industry experts to gain first-hand information, content and thematic analysis was employed based on secondary data research in this study. The findings of the study show that even though pepper is mostly used in food-related industries, its potential in pharmaceutical and cosmeceutical sectors remains underexplored. Globally, the overall supply and demand of pepper continue to increase, though the demand has recently exceeded supply. However, continuous new planting and farmexpansion initiatives by major producers caused the total global pepper supply to exceed consumption in 2018. In fact, pepper prices have declined more than 70% since 2015, which affected the overall household income of the rural community engaged in pepper farming. While experiencing low prices, smallholder pepper farmers and the industry continue to struggle with low domestic consumption, low production, higher cost of farm inputs, lack of extension services, low impact of research, development and innovation, ageing farming population, intense competition from other producing countries, low prices for quality pepper, limited subsidy to support continuous farming, pepper-related diseases, lack of new technology, and poor investment in downstream activities. Given this, the performance of the Malaysian pepper industry has fallen below expectations.

scholarly journals EMBODIED GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS FOR TWO DIFFERENT TYPES OF TIRE TREAD MOLDS

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-39
Author(s):  
Pawinee Suksuntornsiri ◽  
Monsit Kulamart ◽  
Paiboon Limpitipanich
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Site Specificity ◽  
Production Plant ◽  
Ipcc Guidelines ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Element Type ◽  
Sector Type ◽  
Available Information

In an assessment of the carbon footprint (CFP) of a tire product, embodied greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of its tread mold are usually disregarded due to the absence of available information. This study presents embodied GHG emissions of a winter tire tread mold and evaluates its significance. We also provide a comparative study between two types of mold, namely the sector and the element mold, which are not different in terms of the tread forming in the production process, but subject to the customer’s utilization. The assessment was performed according to the international ISO/DIS 14067 standard, requirements, and guidelines for the quantification of the CFP of products. Required input data of the processes were collected and allocated based on a tread mold production plant located in Thailand. Direct GHG emissions and indirect emissions were calculated according to the 2006 IPCC guidelines. In other indirect processes, secondary data from process-based and input-output-based data were assigned to match the best site specificity, and closer fuel mix in upstream inputs. The results obtained in this study show that the embodied GHG emissions were 5,033.36 kg CO2e for the sector mold, whereas 53.73% additional emissions were found in the dataset using the element mold. The embodied emissions estimated for the aluminum input were found to significantly influence the mold CFP. Disregarding the embodied GHG emissions during the production of a single conventional tire could result in an underestimation of 0.03% for the sector type and 0.05% for the element type. Furthermore, appropriate lifetime utilization of the tread mold could increase the contribution of the tread mold CFP.

scholarly journals ANALISIS TINGKAT PENDAPATAN MASYARAKAT NELAYAN SOMA PAJEKO DI KECAMATAN SALIBABU KABUPATEN KEPULAUAN TALAUD SULAWESI UTARA

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Siska Salatan ◽  
Victoria E.N. Manoppo ◽  
Suria Darwisito
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Data ◽  
Income Level ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Purse Seine ◽  
Net Income ◽  
Community Group ◽  
North Sulawesi ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
Spatial Plan

AbstractTalaud Islands Regency includes maritime territory, 94.6% of which is waters directly adjacent to the Philippines and holds a variety of high economic living resources. In North Sulawesi Provincial Regulation Numbered 1/2017, article 12 concerning Zoning Plan of Coastal Zone and Small Islands of North Sulawesi Province 2017-2037, Talaud Islands Regency is designated as Integrated Marine and Fisheries Center Location of Talaud. It is located in Salibabu district, where Regional Regulation of Spatial Plan Numbered 1/2014 concerning Spatial Plan of Talaud Islands Regency for 2014-2034, Salibabu District is prioritized for Fishing Fisheries Regional Development and Management since its unutilized fisheries potential is still about 23,104 tons/year. In 2017, Salibabu district occupies the highest order for total fisheries production in Talaud Islands District. It was 702.3 tons or 11.79% of that in Talaud Islands Regency, 46.23% of which were gained from purse seines. Majority of the purse seine fishermen are those whose main livelihoods are fishermen and do not have other jobs. Fishing community is, in general, a relatively lagging community group socially, economically and culturally when compared with other community groups. The purse seine fishermen community in Salibabu district, in fact, still has mean income far below the minimum wage of Kabupaten Talaud, IDR. 1,500,000, -. The purse seine fisherman community in Salibabu district is still chained with poverty and backwardness. Therefore, there are needs for external intervention as an incentive to empower them in order to get out of the situation. This study used descriptive method, a method of studying the recent status of human groups, an object, a set of condition, a system of thinking or a class of events. Data collection consisted of primary and secondary data. It was done through in-depth interviews, filling questionnaires and literature studies. Respondents were purse seine fishermen communities in Salibabu district. Data analysis used descriptive method to know the socio-economic life of the communities and income formula to analyze the income level of fishermen purse seine. Results showed that mean net income in Salibabu district was approximately IDR 86,784,000/year for the purse seine owner and IDR.10,608,840/year for fishing crews, respectively, with main catches of skipjack tuna, mackerels, and scads. Keywords: Purse seine fisherman, Salibabu District and Income level of Fisherman AbstrakKabupaten Kepulauan Talaud termasuk wilayah bahari dimana 94,6% wilayahnya adalah perairan yang berbatasan langsung dengan negara Philipina dan memiliki sumberdaya hayati yang bernilai ekonomis tinggi. Dalam Peraturan Daerah Provinsi Sulawesi Utara No. 1 tahun 2017 pasal 12 tentang Rencana Zonasi Wilayah Pesisir dan Pulau-Pulau Kecil Provinsi Sulawesi Utara tahun 2017-2037, Kabupaten Kepulauan Talaud ditetapkan sebagai lokasi Sentra Kelautan dan Perikanan Terpadu. Lokasi tersebut terletak di Kecamatan Salibabu, dimana pada Perda RTRW (Rencana Tata Ruang Wilayah) No. 1 Tahun 2014 tentang Rencana Tata Ruang Wilayah Kab. Kepulauan Talaud Tahun 2014-2034, Kecamatan Salibabu diprioritaskan untuk Pengembangan dan Pengelolaan Kawasan Perikanan Tangkap karena potensi perikanan yang belum termanfaatkan ± 23.104 Ton/Tahun. Tahun 2017, Kecamatan Salibabu menempati urutan tertinggi untuk total produksi perikanan di Kabupaten Kepulauan Talaud. Total produksi perikanan Kecamatan Salibabu sebesar 702,3 ton atau 11,79 % dari keseluruhan produksi perikanan di Kabupaten Talaud. Dari total produksi tesebut 46,23 merupakan hasil produksi usaha soma pajeko. Mayoritas nelayan soma pajeko merupakan nelayan penuh yang mata pencaharian utamanya sebagai nelayan dan tidak memiliki pekerjaan lain. Masyarakat nelayan pada umumnya merupakan kelompok masyarakat yang relatif tertinggal secara sosial, ekonomi dan budaya bila dibandingkan dengan kelompok masyarakat lainnya. Demikian juga berlaku untuk masyarakat nelayan soma pajeko di Kecamatan Salibabu dimana penghasilan nelayan dibawah upah minimum Kabupaten kepulauan Talaud sebesar Rp. 1.500.000,-. Masyarkat nelayan soma pajeko di Kecamatan Salibabu masih terbelenggu oleh kemiskinan. Oleh karena itu dengan maksud bisa keluar dari kondisi tersebut perlu ada intervensi ekternal sebagai suatu dorongan untuk memberdayakan mereka.Penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif, yaitu suatu metode dalam meneliti sekelompok manusia, suatu objek, suatu set kondisi, suatu system pemikiran ataupun suatu kelas peristiwa pada masa sekarang. Jenis data yang dikumpulkan terdiri dari data primer dan data sekunder. Pengumpulan data dilakukan melalui wawancara secara mendalam terhadap responden, pengisian kuesioner dan studi kepustakaan. Responden terdiri dari masyarakat nelayan soma pajeko di Kecamatan Salibabu. Analisis data menggunakan metode deskriptif untuk mengetahui kehidupan sosial ekonomi masyarakat dan analisis mengunakan rumus pendapatan digunakan untuk menganalisis tingkat pendapatan masyarakat nelayan soma pajeko.Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pendapatan bersih juragan soma pajeko di Kecamatan Salibabu rata- rata berkisar Rp86.784.000,-/tahun dan Rp. 10.608.840,-/tahun untuk pendapatan bersih masanae dengan hasil tangkapan utama berupa ikan Cakalang, Ikan Layang dan Ikan Tongkol.Kata kunci: Nelayan Soma Pajeko , Kecamatan Salibabu dan Tingkat Pendapatan

On Co-opetitive Supply Partnerships with End-Product Rivals: Information Asymmetry, Dual Sourcing and Supply Market Efficiency

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seung Hwan Jung ◽  
Panos Kouvelis
Keyword(s):  
Wholesale Price ◽  
Information Leakage ◽  
Problem Definition ◽  
The Other ◽  
Theoretic Model ◽  
Market Information ◽  
Dual Sourcing ◽  
Strategic Sourcing ◽  
Demand Information ◽  
Separating Equilibrium

Problem definition: We consider opportunities for cooperation at the supply level between two firms that are rivals in the end-product market. One of our firms is vertically integrated (VI), has in-house production capabilities, and may also supply its rival. The other is a downstream outsourcing (DO) firm that has better market information. The DO is willing to consider a supply partnership with the VI, but it also has the option to use the outside supply market. Academic/practical relevance: Such co-opetitive practices are common in industrial supply chains, but firms’ co-opetitive strategic sourcing with the potential of information leakage has not been examined in the literature. Methodology: We build a game-theoretic model to capture the firms’ strategic interactions under the co-opetitive supply partnership with the potential information leakage. Results: The DO exploits its information advantage to obtain a better wholesale price from the VI and may use dual sourcing to protect its private information. Anticipating that, the VI may offer wholesale price concessions as an information rent to obtain the DO’s information. Our work identifies demand uncertainty and efficiency of outside supply market as the factors affecting the VI’s pricing decision and the resulting equilibrium. Pooling equilibrium arises often, but in a few cases, the equilibrium is separating. At the separating equilibrium, the DO always single sources, either from the VI or the independent supplier depending on the demand state. The VI benefits from ancillary revenue-generating opportunity, and from information acquisition in a separating equilibrium. On the other hand, the DO’s benefit is a cheaper price in exchange for market information in a separating equilibrium. In the pooling case, the DO uses dual sourcing to hide demand information, especially in the high demand case, and to better supply the end-market through his accurate demand information. Managerial implications: Our work provides useful insights into firms’ strategic sourcing behaviors to efficiently deal with the potential of information leakage in the co-opetitive supply environment and for the rationale behind such relationships often observed in industries.

Comparative study on Vietnam’s and Philippines' COVID-19 response using historical institutionalism

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Jerome B. Del Rosario ◽  
Francesca Mitchel Ofilada ◽  
Rose Ann D. Vicente
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare System ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Healthcare Spending ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Historical Institutionalism ◽  
Contact Tracing ◽  
Content Type

PurposeThis paper analyzed the healthcare systems of the Philippines and Vietnam prior to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and their strategies on mass testing, contact tracing, quarantine procedures and information dissemination about the pandemic.Design/methodology/approachSteinmo's (2008) historical institutionalism approach was used in this paper. Secondary data gathering, document analysis and comparative process tracing were employed.FindingsThe findings revealed that Vietnam's implementation of its Law on Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases in 2007, its relatively low-cost healthcare system, its efficient mass testing and contact tracing strategies and its science-based decisions are contributory to its success in handling the pandemic. Meanwhile, the Philippines failure to enact its Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act in 2013, its costly and dominantly private healthcare system, its heavy focus on strict, long lockdowns and its militarist methods to control the spread of the pandemic were found to be insufficient.Research limitations/implicationsDetailed study on the delivery of healthcare services in marginal areas, healthcare spending for COVID-19 positive individuals and information dissemination strategies about the pandemic were not explored.Practical implicationsHealth institutions can redesign their governance mechanisms by ensuring a cost-effective healthcare system and maximizing resource utilization to ensure efficient management of future pandemics. Moreover, national governments should not compromise their country's healthcare system over the economy during a pandemic.Originality/valueThis paper analyzed the countries' history of healthcare governance and its influence in handling COVID-19 compared to previous studies which only focused on the countries' strategies during the pandemic.

scholarly journals Designing the Tools of the Trade: How corporate social responsibility consultants and their tool-based practices created market shifts

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 703-726 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Pascal Gond ◽  
Luc Brès
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Market Mechanisms ◽  
Social Concerns ◽  
Corporate Social

Combining insights from the sociology of markets and studies of consultants, this article examines the tool-based practices by which market actors enable the agencing of the supply and demand of the market in ways that shape the market’s trajectory. Building on 31 interviews and a rich set of secondary data, we provide an analysis of the development of a market for consultancy products and services for corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the province of Quebec (Canada). Through analytical induction we identified six tool-based practices by which consultants contributed to the agencing of the market, and our results show how these practices collectively created market shifts. Our analysis offers new insights into the processes by which consultants’ tool-based practices produce market shifts, embed environmental and social concerns within market mechanisms, and ‘vascularize’ markets.

scholarly journals The Rise of Robots in China

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong Cheng ◽  
Ruixue Jia ◽  
Dandan Li ◽  
Hongbin Li
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Average Rate ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Industrial Robots ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Employee Survey ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Firm Level Data ◽  
Aggregate Industry

China is the world’s largest user of industrial robots. In 2016, sales of industrial robots in China reached 87,000 units, accounting for around 30 percent of the global market. To put this number in perspective, robot sales in all of Europe and the Americas in 2016 reached 97,300 units (according to data from the International Federation of Robotics). Between 2005 and 2016, the operational stock of industrial robots in China increased at an annual average rate of 38 percent. In this paper, we describe the adoption of robots by China’s manufacturers using both aggregate industry-level and firm-level data, and we provide possible explanations from both the supply and demand sides for why robot use has risen so quickly in China. A key contribution of this paper is that we have collected some of the world’s first data on firms’ robot adoption behaviors with our China Employer-Employee Survey (CEES), which contains the first firm-level data that is representative of the entire Chinese manufacturing sector.

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