reconcile the conflicting primal and dual estimates of productivity growth over the period. …

randomly gave cash and in-kind grants to male- and female-owned microenterprises in urban Ghana. Our findings cast doubt on the …

This paper studies the effects of descent rules on human capital accumulation. We exploit a policy experiment in Ghana …-landed households. This evidence is consistent with the fact that before the reform matrilineal groups in Ghana "over-invested" in …

and productivity growth is low. We apply our theory to the windfalls of Norway, Iraq and Ghana. The optimal size of Ghana …’s liquidity fund is tiny even with high prudence. Norway’s liquidity fund is bigger than Ghana’s. Iraq’s liquidity fund is … to invest. We illustrate how this can speed up the process of development in Ghana despite domestic absorption …

A new round of WTO negotiations on agriculture, services and perhaps some other issues is expected to be launched in …

absence of imports the United Kingdom could feed itself. Oil and chemical inputs into agriculture are probably more vulnerable …

increasingly on price subsidies and trade restrictions. We outline the situation of CEE agriculture and describe current policies …. Scarce government funds could be better used to support agriculture by providing partial loan guarantees, thus reducing … and trade policies should be used to support CEE agriculture, citing the example of OECD nations, and in particular the …

in agriculture. We use a new data set on nominal rates of assistance (NRA) across a number of commodities spanning the … quantitative and price-based instruments used to regulate agriculture The data set admits consideration of effective taxes and …