898 research outputs found
Trade Performance of Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Selected ASEAN Countries
No full textThis paper examines the trade performance for thirteen commodities in the fruit and vegetable industry in relation to that of selected ASEAN countries (Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand), based on Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) indicator. The analysis shows that Singapore has comparative advantage in 5 commodities (ground-nuts, hazelnuts, plums, apricots and walnuts), Philippines has comparative advantage in 3 commodities (tomatoes nes prepared or preserved, tomatoes whole or in peaces and cherries), Thailand and Malaysia has comparative advantage in 2 commodities (citrus fruits, fruit and vegetable juice, and tomatoes and apple juice, respectively) while Indonesia has comparative advantage in 1 commodity (cashew nuts). Malaysia has comparative advantage only in tomatoes and apple juice but comparative disadvantage in other commodities such as cashew nuts, walnuts and fruit and vegetable juice. The RCA index for apple juice in Malaysia is increasing over the years 2000 to 2006 indicating improvement in comparative advantage. However, the comparative advantage of tomatoes is constant.Trade performance, fruit and vegetable sector, revealed comparative advantage and ASEAN
Use of dichotomous choice contingent valuation method to value the Putrajaya Wetland Park
No full textConsumers\u27 willingness to pay towards food safety: the case of meat consumption
No full textThis study is to determine consumers\u27 willingness-to-pay (WTP) for food safety with reference to meat consumption. A total of 3,145 respondents were interviewed for this purpose. The contingent valuation method (CVM) was used to determine consumers\u27 WTP for the consumption of meat. A logit and probit model was used to estimate the premium that consumers are willing to pay for meat. The results indicated that the important factors that influenced as well as determined the amount of premium that a consumer was willing to pay for meat are gender, age, marital status, household size and income, price levels, and number of children. Based on this study, it was found that the demand and consumption of meat was still high despite of the food scare incidents in the country recently. However, many Malaysian consumers are becoming more vigilant when buying meat due to concern on health and diet. This trend will certainly have effects on the present market of meat. Hence, to ensure a better development of the meat market, there is a need to formulate proper standards, policies and promotion programmes for meat safety, and to step up the efforts of Research and Development (R&D) in improving the production technologies and food safety systems for meat
Construct validation of supply chain management in cooperative
No full textThis study attempts to analyze construct in supply chain and to determine which construct contribute to performance of agricultural cooperatives in Malaysia. The primary data is collected via questionnaire from top level management of agricultural cooperatives using 5-item Likert scale. Factor analysis and structural equations modeling were used to analyze the data. Findings show that cooperatives places importance on quality and technology, logistic, supplier and governance. As a whole, supply chain is significance in determining performance. However, governance alone is not significant in determining performance. The empirical result could be used to improve further studies in supply chain management.Agricultural cooperatives; supply chain management model
Selected readings on economic analysis of industries and natural resources
No full textThe articles contain in this volume are based on empirical analysis that address issues on industrial regulations, entry barriers, technological progress, productivity and investment in the manufacturing industries, the productivity of the fisheries resource and the demand for tourism services in Malaysia, as well as the efficiency o the fishery in West Sumatra and agricultural loan repayment in Indonesia. The information and analysis contained in this volume will be useful to students, researchers, academics, practising economists and policy planners interested in industrial economics and natural resources
Demand analyses of food in Malaysia: Effects of model specification and demographic variables
No full textDemand analyses of food are deemed important to provide up-to-date indications of the demand behavior in future. This study is to determine which the model specification, as well as analyze the effects of demographic and socio-economic factors on of food demand in Malaysia. Household Expenditure Survey 2004/2005 data is analyzed by using Working Leser, Linear Engel model (LEM), Quadratic Engel model (QEM), and Linear Approximate Demand System (LA/AIDS). The empirical shows that LEM and QEM provide better results, in term of adjusted R2 and rationality of expenditure elasticities. Also, demographic variables improve the performance of all the selected models.demand analyses, food, Malaysia, expenditure elasticity
Analysis of demand for vegetable in Malaysia
No full textThe market information is important in facilitating marketing system from production to the downstream. The purpose of this study is to estimate the Malaysian consumers’ demand for vegetables. By using Household Expenditure Survey 2004/05 data, demands for 6 vegetables are analyzed via a multi-stage budgeting system. The estimated demand elasticities show that the demands for all vegetables are found to increase when per capita income rises. Most of the vegetables are found to respond substantially to changes in their own prices and in the directions as expected with estimated negative own-price elasticities, which is more than unity (except podded vegetable).Vegetable, multi-stage budgeting system, demand elasticities
Pushing Alias Resolution to the Limit
No full textIn this paper, we show that utilizing multiple protocols offers a unique opportunity to improve IP alias resolution and dual-stack inference substantially. Our key observation is that prevalent protocols, e.g., SSH and BGP, reply to unsolicited requests with a set of values that can be combined to form a unique device identifier. More importantly, this is possible by just completing the TCP hand-shake. Our empirical study shows that utilizing readily available scans and our active measurements can double the discovered IPv4 alias sets and more than 30× the dual-stack sets compared to the state-of-the-art techniques. We provide insights into our method's accuracy and performance compared to popular techniques.Cyber Securit
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