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      <title>Market Opportunities for New Sauerkraut Products</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/23490</link>
      <description>Title: Market Opportunities for New Sauerkraut Products
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Cuellar, Sandra; Uva, Wen-fei; Roberts, John M.
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Production and processing of head cabbage has a significant economic importance for New York State agriculture. New York produces about one-fourth of the total U.S. head cabbage output, with 79 percent destined to the fresh market. In the U.S., New York is the number one producer of fresh head cabbage (with a market share of 22 percent) and is number two, after Wisconsin, in the production of sauerkraut, with a market share of 39 percent (Lucier and Lin, 2002). During the past decade (1991 to 2001), production of fresh head cabbage and sauerkraut in New York State increased 61 percent and 23 percent, respectively. During the same period, per capita consumption of fresh cabbage increased from 8.2 pounds to 8.8 pounds (an increase of 7.3 percent), while consumption of sauerkraut stayed stable at around 1.3 pounds (a decrease of between 2.2 to 2.3 pounds from the 1960s to?70s levels (USDA, 2004). The consumption trends of fresh head cabbage and sauerkraut clearly reflect today?s consumers? food preferences, which are strongly determined by an increasing desire and interest in both fresher and more complex and exciting food products. The incorporation of fresh cabbage to bagged salads is thought to be a major contributing factor to the observed increase in consumption of fresh head cabbage. On the other hand, sauerkraut sold and consumed today in the U.S. market is not that different from the sauerkraut made a hundred years ago and is appreciated mostly by older consumers and little by younger consumers.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A brief overview of Mozambique's rural development and the role of US assistance</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/23488</link>
      <description>Title: A brief overview of Mozambique's rural development and the role of US assistance
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Kyle, Steven
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: With an average per capita income of $154 in 2000 Mozambique is one of the poorest countries in the world but has also been one of the fastest growing economies through the 1990?s. Growth rates of 10% have been registered in some recent years though this has been offset to some extent by disastrous natural calamities including floods and droughts. The government remains committed to market reform and has at this point dismantled virtually all of the command and control apparatus that characterized the country through the mid-1990?s. Economic reform has been paralleled by political reform with the former armed opposition, RENAMO, now converted into a full participant in multiparty elections at all levels of government.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Medicaid and County Property Tax Levies on New York Farmland</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/23489</link>
      <description>Title: Medicaid and County Property Tax Levies on New York Farmland
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Bills, Nelson L.
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Changes in health care delivery and financing, along with shifting demographics, are reinventing health care institutions and market relationships in New York and throughout the United States. Many communities are struggling to provide health care services in ways that protect community economic interests and the health needs of local people. Local public officials, business interests, hospitals, and doctors in many communities are increasingly concerned about the capacity to provide quality products and services while delivering care at reasonable cost.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>We're rich!! Or are we? : Oil and development in S?o Tomé e príncipe</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/23486</link>
      <description>Title: We're rich!! Or are we? : Oil and development in S?o Tomé e príncipe
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Kyle, Steven
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: This paper discusses the policy issues facing S?o Tomé e Príncipe, given the discovery and imminent exploitation of large reserves of oil in its territorial waters. A common reaction to news of a large oil discovery is to think that all economic problems can be solved by the flow of oil revenues. However, the experience of numerous oil countries shows that it is necessary to temper this attitude somewhat since there are numerous pitfalls which can offset the positive aspects of oil riches. An appropriate policy for macro balance and for disposal of oil revenues will be essential if S?o Tomé e Príncipe is to avoid the problems which have plagued countries such as Nigeria or Angola. The two main lessons of macroeconomics in such a situation is first not to generate revenue faster than it can be productively used and second to invest in such a manner that the country?s underlying comparative advantages are preserved. In the case of S?o Tomé e Príncipe, history and recent analyses confirm that there is a strong comparative advantage in agriculture, implying that investments which enhance productivity and efficiency in this sector would be appropriate for expenditure of oil revenues. In addition, such a strategy would have beneficial effects in terms of poverty alleviation and equitable distribution of benefits from the coming windfall.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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