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Enhancing Canada’s Beef Exports and Competitiveness in the Global Market
Get PDFAlberta reports the highest revenues among all provinces in beef cattle ranching and farming, but there is still considerable potential to maximize profits by expanding international trade. In 2022, Canada exported 0.78 million head of cattle and 430,000 metric tonnes of beef, for a total trade value of C$5.2 billion. That same year, Canada ranked eighth globally in the volume of beef exports, sixth in the value of beef exports and fourth in the aggregate value of live cattle and beef exports. This study aims to provide a policy brief on Canada’s beef and cattle production and exports, and international market access and conditions. Trade barriers are identified and evaluated, and the implications of non-tariff measures (NTMs) are examined. These include, for example, the ban
imposed by the European Union and the United Kingdom on the importation of peroxyacetic acid (PAA)-treated and hormone-treated beef, and the United States’ political/legislative attempts to invoke the mandatory country-of-origin labelling (CoOL) standard for Canada’s beef exports.
This study also discusses the benefits and limitations of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) for Canada’s beef exports, such as the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA); the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA); and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). The study concludes by exploring the opportunities to increase Canada’s beef exports and competitiveness in international markets
Globalization and the Fallout of the COVID-19 Pandemic
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted globalization by disrupting the course of international economic integration, reducing interpersonal interaction and communication, and lessening the significance of global governance and political interactions. This unprecedented event has altered global supply chains, MNEs’ operations and FDI, and trade patterns, and it has favored protectionist and border policies. Meanwhile, travel restrictions and social-distancing measures reduced human mobility and hindered intercultural exchanges. This study explores the short-term and long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on economic globalization while also reflecting on its implications for social and political globalization. The analysis underlines that the COVID-19 pandemic has encouraged many governments to assess their strategies vis-à-vis globalization by seeking a certain equilibrium between global engagement, regional retreat, and national seclusion. Despite the adverse implications, some positive outcomes have emerged via the COVID-19-induced digital transformation and the reconfiguration of the global supply chains to improve resilience against future exogenous shocks. This pandemic exposed the shortcomings of the current global system and emphasized the necessity for a post-COVID-19 “re-designed” globalization to mitigate anti-globalization sentiments and expand benefits across countries/geo-economic regions and different segments of society
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
On the Magnitude of the Geographic Distance Effect on Primary Agricultural and Processed Food Trade
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Women Through the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges, Consequences, and Resilience
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic represents an unprecedented event in contemporary history, with far-reaching repercussions for the global economy and society. This article examines the economic challenges and consequences of this pandemic for women. It further explores the pandemic effects on women’s health and well-being, exacerbated by the limited access to basic healthcare and mental health resources, and it points out the challenges facing women in frontline occupations (namely, healthcare). This article also highlights the alarming surge in domestic violence and abuse against women during the pandemic, aggravated by lockdown measures and isolation from support networks. In addition, this article discusses various social and political implications of this pandemic for women, and it reveals how women demonstrated significant resilience over the pandemic-related struggles. The implications of the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to persist in the post-pandemic era as they intersect with ongoing social and economic transformations and new events/crises. At this point, it remains to be determined to what extent this pandemic has decelerated (or even reversed) the progress that was made over the past few decades in terms of reducing gender inequality and enhancing women’s social status, and to what degree women’s resilience in the face of this pandemic has mitigated its adverse effects on their economic opportunities and social positions. Nevertheless, this article aims to provide a reference for governments, women’s organizations, and policymakers in assessing the implications of this pandemic for women and in designing sustained and targeted measures to support women vis-à-vis future crises
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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