Strategic positioning of international agricultural research centres: Comparative advantage and trade-offs from a transaction cost economics perspective
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Agricultural and Food Policy; Demand and Price Analysis; Environmental Economics and Policy; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2013-07-15 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2013-07-15 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-NPS-2013-07-15 (Nonprofit and Public Sector)
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