The Sultanate of Oman has devoted particular attention to promote sustainable development of the fisheries sector to ensure its long-term contributions to community welfare. Considering this strategically important initiative this study aimed at assessing the sustainability by developing a sustainability index based on appropriate criteria encompassing the key components of...
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Overview. Development of Indicators of Environmental
Performance of the Common Fisheries Policy.
MAF
The Sultanate of Oman has devoted particular attention to promote sustainable development of the fisheries sector to ensure its long-term contributions to community welfare. Considering this strategically important initiative this study aimed at assessing the sustainability by developing a sustainability index based on appropriate criteria encompassing the key components of...
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Sustainable Development
A Case Study of the Sultanate of Oman
Sultan Qaboos University
Sultanate of Oman
This paper, which was given as a keynote address for Africa fisheries policy day, addresses the key issue of how the exploitation of Africa’s fish resources can make a greater sustainable contribution to African economic growth. It is estimated that such resources have the potential to deliver annual wealth in...
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This paper examines the eleven year Department for International Development funded Fisheries Management Science Programme as a model to explore how fisheries management science can contribute to achieving the Millennium Development Goals. It describes how the Programme strategy was able to adapt to a changing policy environment and local needs...
Developing an allocation scheme for distributing rights amongst fishing nations remains one of the major obstacles to the development of stable cooperative arrangements to exploit international fish resources.
A great deal of effort has been devoted over the years to finding a durable solution to the allocation problem, both at...
We show that various procedures surrounding the administration of U.S. antidumping (AD) cases gives firms incentives to
pass-through AD duties as much as 200 percent and that exchange rate pass-through is likely altered when firms face AD
duties. While our predictions are general for any firms or products involved in...
Japan is one of the largest importers of wheat, with imports originating from three countries, Australia,
Canada, and the United States. Australia, Canada and Japan all use a government single-desk agency to control wheat
trade. Many previous studies on competition in the world grain trade have argued the market is...
This paper discusses the issue of foodborne disease and international trade in food products from an economic perspective.
Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that each year diseases caused by food in the United States may
cause an estimated 325,000 serious illnesses resulting in hospitalizations,...
International production – the production of goods and
services in countries that is controlled and managed by
firms headquartered in other countries – is largely driven
by foreign direct investment (FDI) flows. Over 500,000
foreign affiliates established by 60,000 parent companies
throughout the world employed about 35 million people
in...