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millions of people. Global agriculture markets are undergoing structural changes, and the next three to four years will pose …
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"The dramatic rise and volatility of food prices over the last year have shaken the global food system. Governments and the international development community generally have responded to various aspects of the food crisis, but questions remain about whether the right actions are being pursued,...
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"African agriculture is at a crossroads. The current high food prices and the instability they have provoked in several countries have added impetus for African countries to review their agricultural policies and programs. New agricultural policies will have to be more focused on staple food...
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"Part of the difficulty in responding to the food crisis is the lack of credible and up-todate data on the impacts of food prices on poor people and on the effects of policy responses. Such information would allow international and national decision makers to use feedback to adjust their...
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Recent findings in the growth literature suggest that developing countries need to keep a devalued exchange rate to stimulate their economic growth. Building on these findings, we econometrically evaluate to what ex-tent the real exchange rate of Pakistan has been aligned with its economic...
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input and output markets, going back decades before the period under review. Most significantly, in the wake of economic … reforms launched during the 1980s, it has withdrawn from most of the commodity markets except wheat. In other commodity … markets, intervention is by and large notional and without much practical involvement. The rolling back of the public sector …
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and the likely destinations of these products in national or international markets. Local collectors/farmers and dealers … were surveyed about their collection efforts, quantities collected, prices received, and resulting incomes. Herbal markets …
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