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Can Productive Change and Income Redistribution be Compatible with Global Financial Asymmetries?
The 2000s have brought a renewed debate on strategies of ‘developmentalism’ in
emerging market economies, especially in Latin America. We consider new
concepts of developmentalism to be strategies in which the state deliberately
pushes the process of development, in terms of structural change, and aims at
income redistribution. In our paper, we seek to systematize this debate,
comparing the concepts of new developmentalism and social developmentalism. We
argue that of particular relevance for this discussion are the policy space
constraints for emerging market economies imposed by international monetary
and financial asymmetries. We conclude that the latter of the two approaches
does not consider appropriately the policy constraints related to these
asymmetries, which reduce the space for the implementation of developmentalist
policies, while the former sees redistribution as a mere result of export-led
industrialization
Implications for Macroeconomic Policies in Emerging Economies
We translate the structuralist center-periphery approach to international
currency relations and analyze the implications for macroeconomic policies of
emerging market countries. While the Post Keynesian literature offers a rather
clear concept for growthoriented policies, it is necessary to adapt them for
peripheral emerging economies. We base our analysis of an appropriate
Keynesian policy mix for these countries on the concept of currency hierarchy,
where the currencies of peripheral emerging economies have a lower liquidity
premium than the currencies of advanced economies. Under these conditions, we
argue that domestic economic policy coordination should lay a major focus on a
low policy rate and, especially, a competitive exchange rate for obtaining, at
least, a balanced current account, in order to prevent boom-bust-cycles in
capital flows with subsequent financial crises and their damaging effects on
employment and growth. We conclude that it is a rather ambitious and long term
goal to climb up the currency hierarchy, especially under the current
conditions of financial globalization
Developmentalism at the Periphery: Can Productive Change and Income Redistribution Be Compatible with Global Financial Asymmetries?
Center and periphery in international monetary relations: Implications for macroeconomic policies in emerging economies
Effect on Broiler Production Performance and Meat Quality of Feeding Ulva lactuca Supplemented with Carbohydrases
Macroalgae have been increasingly exploited worldwide for feed, food and biofuel
applications, due to their nutritive and bioactive compounds. Green seaweeds belonging to the genus
Ulva have high growth rates, which makes them suitable for being cultured in sustainable algae
production, such as an integrated multi-trophic aquaculture system. This is expected to increase the
use of Ulva sp. as an alternative source to conventional feedstuffs (e.g., cereals and soybean meal)
for poultry. The objective of the current study was to assess if the incorporation of 15% Ulva lactuca
in broiler chickens’ diet, combined or not with carbohydrate-active enzymes, would enhance meat
nutritional quality without compromising animal growth performance. Overall, U. lactuca led to
an accumulation of antioxidant carotenoids, n-3 PUFA and macrominerals, including magnesium,
potassium and phosphorus, in the breast muscle, with likely health benefits, without significantly
impairing growth performance. The supplementation of macroalgae with a recombinant ulvan lyase
reduced ileal viscosity with possible beneficial effects on broiler digestibility. Although dietary U.
lactuca showed potential to increase meat quality, it reduced meat overall acceptability, which suggests
the use of a lower algae inclusion level to prevent a negative meat sensory perception for consumersinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Enhancing meat quality of weaned piglets with the dietary incorporation of Ulva lactuca and carbohydrases supplementation
Pubmed Free articleThe impact of the dietary incorporation of 7% Ulva lactuca, a green seaweed, on the quality and nutritional value of piglet’s meat was assessed. U. lactuca is rich in nutrients and bioactive compounds but its cell wall is composed of complex polysaccharides that reduce their bioavailability. Therefore, the effect of supplementing piglet diets with exogenous carbohydrases was also assessed here. A total of 40 male weaned piglets were divided into four dietary groups, each with 10 piglets: control (wheat, maize and soybean meal-based diet), UL (7% U. lactuca replacing the control diet), UL +R (UL and 0.005% Rovabio®), and UL +E (UL and 0.01% ulvan lyase). The piglets were fed the diets for 2 weeks. The results showed that incorporating U. lactuca in piglet diets did not influence most of the meat quality traits (P >0.05). However, the incorporation of U. lactuca with the commercial carbohydrase (UL +R) increased the amount of the docosahexaenoic acid (DHA; 22:6n-3) in their meat (P =0.011) compared with the control, by 54%. In addition, meat from piglets fed seaweed diets showed a nearly two-fold increase in iodine contents (P <0.001). Meat tenderness, juiciness and overall acceptability of piglets fed the control diet and the UL diet were lower than those fed the diets containing seaweed and carbohydrases (P <0.001). Overall, the findings indicate that 7% U. lactuca in the diets of weaned piglets had no major detrimental effects on meat quality and their carbohydrase supplementation has the potential to improve meat sensory traits.Funding: This research was funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal, through PTDC/CAL-ZOO/30238/2017 grant, associated with a post-doc contract to M.C., and PhD fellowships to J.M. P. (SFRH/BPD/116816/2016) and D.M.R. (SFRH/BD/143992/2019). CIISA (UIDB/00276/2020), AL4AnimalS (LA/P/0059/2020) and LEAF (UIDB/04129/2020) grants, also from FCT, are also acknowledged. The authors acknowledge Teresa Costa from Indukern, Lda. (Sintra, Portugal), for the Rovabio® Excel AP kind donation. The graphical abstract was created using BioRender.com (https://biorender.com/).info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Influence of Feeding Weaned Piglets with Laminaria digitata on the Quality and Nutritional Value of Meat
Laminaria digitata is a novel feedstuff that can be used in pig diets to replace conventional
feedstuffs. However, its resilient cell wall can prevent the monogastric digestive system from accessing
intracellular nutrients. Carbohydrate-active enzyme (CAZyme) supplementation is a putative
solution for this problem, degrading the cell wall during digestion. The objective of this work was to
evaluate the effect of 10% L. digitata feed inclusion and CAZyme supplementation on the meat quality
and nutritional value of weaned piglets. Forty weaned piglets were randomly allocated to four experimental
groups (n = 10): control, LA (10% L. digitata, replacing the control diet), LAR (LA + CAZyme
(0.005% Rovabio® Excel AP)) and LAL (LA + CAZyme (0.01% alginate lyase)) and the trial lasted for
two weeks. The diets had no effect on any zootechnical parameters measured (p > 0.05) and meat
quality traits, except for the pH measured 24 h post-mortem, which was higher in LAL compared
to LA (p = 0.016). Piglets fed with seaweed had a significantly lower n-6/n-3 PUFA ratio compared
to control, to which the higher accumulation of C20:5n-3 (p = 0.001) and C18:4n-3 (p < 0.0001) contributed.
In addition, meat of seaweed-fed piglets was enriched with bromine (Br, p < 0.001) and iodine
(I, p < 0.001) and depicted a higher oxidative stability. This study demonstrates that the nutritional value
of piglets’ meat could be improved by the dietary incorporation of L. digitata, regardless of CAZyme
supplementation, without negatively affecting growth performance in the post-weaning stageinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio