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absence or inadequacy of risk-mitigating institutions and markets, and the need to protect the world's poorest communities … convincing, that the programs are not cost-effective and do not allocate resources optimally, and that private institutions are … expensive, and that reduced intervention can promote competition, help develop alternative institutions, and release funds for …
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Natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a bad reputation. Oil and diamonds, particularly, have been blamed for a number of Africa’s illnesses such as poverty, corruption, dictatorship and war. This paper outlines the different areas and transmission channels of how this so-called...
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"Governments in Asia used grain price stabilization as a major policy instrument when they began to promote the Green Revolution in the 1960s. In the process, they created parastatal agencies, which were quasi-governmental in nature, to undertake public marketing activities in basic staples such...
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